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Fort Worth attorney Steven C. Laird says a new 85 mph speed limit for Texas highways will pose a danger to all drivers in the Lone Star State beginning Sept. 1. "Even though the law says that the 85 mph speed limit will be permitted only on highways designed to accommodate travel at that speed, this doesn't account for human errors we know are common in driving, and the mechanical failures that are bound to happen at such high rates of speed," says Laird, whose practice at the Law Offices of Steven C. Laird includes trucking accidents caused by driver carelessness, sleep deprivation, intoxication, fires, bad brakes and other preventable events. Laird says an estimated 4,000 people are killed by 18-wheelers each year, mostly due to their unsafe operation. About 10 percent of those deaths occur in Texas. For more information, contact Dave Moore at 800-559-4534 or dave@androvett.com.