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Texas Tribune Daily Brief
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| Texas Highways Deadliest as Anti-Tax State Curbs Roadwork |  | An influx of workers at oil fields in Odessa and neighboring Midland is generating traffic on a road system not built for it. Fifty-nine people died in crashes in Odessa and surrounding Ector County last year, that's a 157 percent increase since 2009. An increasing number of oilfield trucks are mixing with pickups and passenger cars on a 1950s-era system of once-rural farm roads and interchanges. The average annual daily vehicle count in the area has increased, and with it, the number of fatal crashes, according to Texas Transportation Department data.
Mark Niquette and Rodney Yap , Bloomberg 10/15/2014    | | Read Article: Bloomberg |
| Virginia Threatens to Remove Guardrails Unless Manufacturer Performs New Tests | | Concern is mounting over the safety of guardrails sold by Trinity Industries. Virginia, in a letter sent to the company on Friday, told Trinity that state transportation officials did not believe Trinity had properly tested the end of a guardrail it redesigned in 2005. Virginia officials also told Trinity, which is based in Dallas, that the company had made changes to the design without telling them. If the company does not conduct new tests, in the presence of Virginia officials, and provide proof to the state's Transportation Department by Oct. 24, the state will ban the product, officials said.
AARON M. KESSLER and DANIELLE IVORY, The New York Times 10/15/2014 | | Read Article: The New York Times |
| FDA: Little Evidence to Drop Chantix Boxed Warning | | Federal regulators say Pfizer has provided low-quality evidence to support its request to remove a bold-letter warning from its anti-smoking drug Chantix about suicidal behavior. Further, staff scientists say they have "concerns about the validity" of data submitted by Pfizer, including five company-sponsored studies that measured suicidal tendencies based on a questionnaire. Other large studies conducted by outside groups also provided "evidence of insufficient quality to either rule in or rule out increased risk of suicide."
Matthew Perrone, AP, Yahoo News 10/15/2014 | | Read Article: Yahoo News |
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