Reasons For Taking The Texas Defensive Driving Course
Based on official Texas government sources including the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) and the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR), here is an overview of the reasons and benefits of taking Texas state-approved defensive driving courses for traffic violations such as speeding, wrongful turns, and other non-criminal traffic violations: Reasons for Taking Texas Defensive Driving Courses Benefits of Taking the Course Additional Information Most people in Texas don’t know that there is a Texas DPS Education & Awareness division. From its website page: Welcome to the Texas Highway Patrol Education and Awareness page. Our goal is to educate our citizens and visitors on crime prevention and to gain voluntary compliance with traffic laws. By educating the public, we hope to reduce crime and to reduce the number of injury causing crashes on Texas Highways. — read the full page here This portion of the Texas DPS website goes…
Videos This Week About Speeding And Accidents In Texas September 12 2025
Here are news clip videos this week about driving and speeding related topics across Texas. City council members in Abilene (Jones County and Taylor County) are changing the speed limit for a road now deemed to be unsafe: Man arrested by police in White Settlement (Tarrant County) for sleeping after going down the wrong way on a highway: Fox 4 Dallas Fort Worth (Dallas County) had a news clip about the State cracking down on truck drivers who can’t speak English: NBC DFW news clip about police pulling over drivers with expired or fraudulent paper tags. Back in July the new law took effect making car dealers issue metal temporary license plates. Here is the link to the announcement from the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT out of Austin / Travis County): https://www.txdmv.gov/dealers/HB718
Videos This Week About Speeding And Accidents In Texas September 4 2025
Here are videos from the past week about various accidents and speeding-related news across Texas: This video from KVUE shows a semi-trailer hitting an overhead bridge in Georgetown (Williamson County): This video from WFAA shows a fatal accident which occurred in Tarrant County: This news about action facing a trucking company is tied to a crash in Terrell (Kaufman County): This news clip from CBS19 covers a crash leading out of Longview (Gregg County): This clip from KSAT 12 discusses a car hitting a power line in San Antonio (Bexar County): This video discusses the high number of automobile crashes in the San Angelo (Tom Green County) area this past August:
Additional TxDOT Speed Limit Information
In addition to the previous post, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has additional resources about speed limits. This is especially true for state highways: https://www.txdot.gov/safety/driving-laws/speed-limits.html On that first page you will see information such as:
Texas Speed Limits Database
Here is the official database from TxDOT for speed limits throughout the State of Texas: https://gis-txdot.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/TXDOT::txdot-speed-limits/explore Once on that page, you can zoom in on the map to get more specific information about the counties of interest to you. Additionally, you can download the entire set of data if you wish.
Videos This Week About Speeding And Driving Laws In Texas
This week there were several videos pertaining to situations and laws in Texas about speeding, accidents, and driving laws. The first was an intoxicated high-speed car chase which led to the death of another driver in Dallas County: KVUE in Austin had this clip about increases in speed limit exceeding and other driving infractions in Travis County: FOX 26 in Houston (Harris County) posted this video clip about laws pertaining to driving behind and when to stop for school buses. NewsWest9, based in Midland County, posted this news clip about Texas DPS indicating that they saw at least 6-8 fatal crashes in the Permian Basin alone in the past month. CW39 Houston (Harris County) posted this clip about AAA Texas urging parents to emphasize driver safety to protect young lives: KETK NBC in Tyler (Smith County) posted this clip about driving safety in school zones now that students in Texas…
Videos From This Past Week About Speeding In Texas
During the past week, these news clip videos came out about speeding and other driving/traffic violations in various parts of Texas: This is from KAMR in Amarillo (Potter County): This short video is about someone who posted on his own social media driving over 110mph in El Paso: This video from channel 5 NBC DFW talks about speeding in neighborhoods in Fort Worth (Tarrant County): This video from 12NewsNow shows a speeding-induced crash in Orange Texas (Orange County): This video from KPRC 2 Houston covers two people dying related to a high-speed chase in Houston (Harris County): This video from Wichita Falls (Wichita County) discusses the recent TxDOT Operation Slowdown: This video from KHOU11 in Houston covers debates over HOV lane violations in Sugar Land (Fort Bend County): This video from FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth covers the traffic accident in Burnet County which killed 5 women: This video from KHOU…
Dallas Fort Worth Police To Jail Extreme Speeders
This short video from the NBCDFW.com YouTube channel mentions how police, especially on highways, in Dallas Fort Worth are attempting to jail extreme speeders (such as those going over 100 mph). This is in an attempt to crack down on dangerous driving in the North Texas area: If you are looking for an approved defensive driving, driver safety, or ticket dismissal course then you can take one anywhere in Texas from an approved course provider. Check out more from this provider based in Dallas County:
Speeding Ticket Hot Spots In San Antonio
We found on YouTube this recently-uploaded video which covers known speeding ticket hot spots in San Antonio: (found on this YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/@KashCashell) If you are looking for a defensive driving or driver safety course for a ticket in/near San Antonio, then learn more here:
Texas Becoming Among Top Costliest States For Speeding
This short video mentions Texas becoming one of the costliest states in America to be caught going 10 mph over the posted speed limit: If you need to take a defensive driving, ticket dismissal, or driver safety course in Texas then you can do so online with an approved course provider. Choose from the list of the Texas county most relevant to your situation: