Posts tagged trucking accidents

• Child hit by truck prompts parade debate

  Staff Writer | November 03, 2006 9:45 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  A tragic accident emerged from the University of Alabama Homecoming parade last weekend when an 8-year-old girl was run over by an 18-wheeler truck while going after a piece of candy tossed from a float. The debate ensues over whether candy and other items should be thrown from parade floats, risking the lives of children and others who run to pick them up amidst moving vehicles.Law enforcement...

• Information on tractor-trailer underride accidents

  Staff Writer | October 26, 2006 12:52 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  This dangerous situation occurs when the front of a small automobile touches the rear or side of a tractor-trailer (semi or large truck). The great risk occurs when the passenger vehicle underrides the trailer, and the trailer bed intrudes into the occupant compartment above and behind the hood. Tractor-trailer underrides have been known to cause serious and deadly accidents. In tractor-trailers...

• Problems in Texas affect citizens in other states

  Tom Methvin | October 20, 2006 4:13 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  It appears that the state of Texas has been doing a very poor job of regulating the trucking industry. As a result, trucks from Texas can create safety hazards when these trucks travel into other states. It should be noted that the trucking industry in the U.S. has grown at a rapid pace. That has also been the case in the Lone Star State. It appears that the trucking industry's growth has...

• Settlement in death case

  Tom Methvin | October 13, 2006 4:12 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  Beasley Allen recently reached a settlement of $4 million dollars with David Bulger, Inc., a trucking company, in a highway construction project death case. The settlement, which was partial in nature, was only for the claim against that company. We still have a claim pending against Wiregrass Construction Company, the general contractor on the project, which we believe has at least equal...

• Truck driver charged in deadly crash

  Tom Methvin | October 13, 2006 3:58 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  A truck driver has been charged with homicide in a crash that killed five people and injured 29 others on a bus carrying high school band students home from a weekend competition. The man's tractor-trailer had swerved off an Interstate highway and jackknifed across the bus' path before dawn on October 16th. The charter bus slammed into the rig, killing the band's director, his wife, their...

• Recent court cases raise questions about trucking safety

  Tom Methvin | October 13, 2006 3:56 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  Over the past several years a "disturbing pattern of dangerous activity" by the nation's trucking industry has developed. We find that a good number of the fatalities resulting from trucking accidents involve driver fatigue. During 2004, 5,190 people were killed in truck crashes, an increase of 154 fatalities over 2003. Additionally, in 2004, the number of truckers killed in crashes increased...

• Interstate crash case settled

  Tom Methvin | October 13, 2006 3:54 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  Our firm, Beasley Allen, has negotiated a settlement in a wrongful death arising out of an interstate highway crash that occurred in Baldwin County, Alabama. We representated the families of two ladies who were state employees traveling to an educational seminar in Mobile. While stopped in traffic due to a prior accident along with a number of cars, an 18-wheeler plowed into their car at a...