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With traffic fatalities spiking, the nation’s top safety investigator says a widely cited government statistic that 94% of serious crashes are solely due to driver error is misleading and the Transportation Department should stop using it

Federal investigators say a helicopter rotated out of control before crashing in East Texas, killing a passenger and injuring the pilot and two other passengers.

A small plane appeared to have clipped treetops before crashing west of Houston, killing both people aboard, federal investigators reported Friday.

Inadequate communication, planning, and risk management by a dredge operator likely led to the cutting of a liquefied propane pipeline and an explosion that killed five people at a Texas port last year, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded Tuesday.

The captain of a fishing boat that collided with a chemical tanker near Galveston, killing three people, did not respond to danger signals from the ship before the crash, the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday. The federal agency issued a report in its investigation of the Jan. 14, 2020 collision that killed three crew members on the 81-foot fishing boat Pappy’s Pride....

One person was found dead when the wreckage of a small plane was discovered on a ranch in rural West Texas, authorities said.

A man was killed when the small plane he was flying crashed just south of an airport in Central Texas, authorities said.

Federal officials say a pilot’s failure to control a small airplane when it lost thrust in one of two engines seconds after takeoff in suburban Dallas led to a 2019 crash that killed all 10 people aboard. NBC 5’s Sophia Beausoleil reports on the National Transportation Safety Board findings released Tuesday.

A plane crash at Addison Airport that killed 10 people in June 2019 was caused by pilot error, the National Transportation Safety Board said in their final report on the crash published Tuesday.

Two of the six people killed in a massive crash involving about 130 vehicles on an icy Texas interstate in February were fatally struck after getting out of their vehicles, according to the NTSB.

The National Transportation Safety Board has found that a pilot’s aggressive takeoff led to an aerodynamic stall, the causing the 2019 crash of a skydiving plane in Hawaii that killed all 11 people on board.

A new report on a 2019 collision in the Houston Ship Channel finds that the speed of one of the tankers was a major issue. No one was hurt in the collision between a tanker and a barge, but the accident caused thousands of barrels of a gasoline product to spill into the water. A National Transportation Safety Board report...

This week, investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board will be in Fort Worth to continue their probe in the deadly Fort Worth pileup in February.

This week, investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board will be in Fort Worth to continue their probe in the deadly Fort Worth pileup in February.

Boeing has recommended that airlines ground all of 777s with the type of engine that suffered a catastrophic failure over Denver this weekend

The National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday that it would investigate a massive crash last week involving more than 130 vehicles on an icy Fort Worth highway that killed six people and injured dozens more.

Federal safety officials discuss the likely causes of the January 2020 helicopter crash that killed nine people, including Kobe Bryant.

U.S. safety investigators say electric vehicle fires pose risks to first responders, and manufacturers have inadequate guidelines to keep them safe

Federal regulators revealed new natural gas safety recommendations just shy of three years since a deadly home explosion in Dallas killed a child.

Federal investigators examining the upstate New York limo crash that killed 20 people attending a 30th birthday in 2018 said Tuesday that state regulators repeatedly failed to properly oversee a poorly maintained vehicle with corroded brakes that hurtled down a road at more than 100 mph and slammed into an embankment.