John Zgourides, Attorney at Law

03/03/2025

SAFETY YIELD - let’s change Texas law to allow cyclists to:

(1) treat stop signs as yield signs; and,

(2) treat red lights as stop signs.

Check out the Texas Safety Yield bill four minute animated video, One Pager, FAQs, NHTSA Safety Study and bill language at the link below. The Texas Safety Yield has been filed in the Senate as SB 864. We are still waiting for the bill to be filed in the Texas House.

The following video on Texas Safety Yield provides an overview of how it works and its benefits.

06/05/2024

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/UZEL77t7mtxL6HZY/?

06/15/2023

NEW TEXAS PATIENT SAFETY LAW

It’s amazing that the Texas legislature pulled together and passed this bipartisan legislation! Thanks to Rep. Johnson and KXAN!

“This bill will absolutely save lives,” said Rep. Julie Johnson, D-Farmers Branch, who introduced HB 1998 in direct response to KXAN’s “Still Practicing” investigation…

07/07/2021

Georgia gets it right.

Motorists Passing Cyclists: "3-Feet-Law"

§ 40-6-56 (as of July 1, 2021)

(a) The operator of a motor vehicle approaching a bicycle shall approach the bicycle with due caution and shall proceed as follows:

1) Make a lane change into a lane not adjacent to the bicycle if possible in the existing road and traffic conditions; or

(2) If a lane change under paragraph (1) of this subsection would be impossible, prohibited by law, or unsafe, reduce the speed of the motor vehicle to a reasonable and proper speed for the existing road and traffic conditions, which speed shall be at least ten miles per hour less than the posted speed limit or 25 miles per hour, whichever is more, and proceed around the bicycle with at least three feet between such vehicle and the bicycle at all times.

Motorists Passing Cyclists: "3-Feet-Law" § 40-6-56 (as of July 1, 2021) (a) The operator of a motor vehicle approaching a bicycle shall approach the bicycle with due caution and shall proceed as follows:

04/19/2021

Driverless vehicle crashes? This tragic crash just happened in the Woodlands. 

If an auto manufacturer designs and markets a car that can drive autonomously, they better be sure it is safe, not just for the occupants of that vehicle, but for everybody else on the road too.

I know this much is true: cars never crash in the absence of human error.

Tesla owners keep doing the same dangerous thing.

01/01/2021

This kind of corporate greed and profiteering must be stopped. This is yet another example of why our Seventh Amendment right to a civil jury trial must not be abrogated by “tort reform.”

The congressional subcommittee launched its inquiry in response to a ProPublica investigation, finding several companies created tests that were “nearly impossible to fail.” Now it’s asking state and federal regulators to investigate too.

06/10/2020

Today I saw the letter from CNN General Counsel to the Trump campaign. It reminded me of this: