Tractor-Trailer Accidents

• Trucking accident injures high school senior

  Staff Writer | May 24, 2007 9:29 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A high school senior involved in a three-car wreck in Hillsboro Wednesday suffered injuries that may have included head trauma, according to a report by The Decatur Daily News. The accident occured on Alabama 20 when two cars collilded on the road and an 18-wheeler truck traveling behind of the the cars struck one car and rolled over into a ditch. Fortunately, the other people involved in the...

• Story of trucker with no accidents

  Staff Writer | April 16, 2007 9:23 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  The Associated Press published a story today about a truck driver who has recently logged one million miles free of accidents. The 59-year-old trucker Willie Barnes is interviewed in the story, and proper safety measures he takes each day on the job should be held up as the ideal example for truck drivers. Unfortunately too many truckers do not follow this man's example, leading to countless...

• Fatal crash involving parked semi truck

  Staff Writer | March 30, 2007 4:08 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A man driving a 1994 Pontiac Grand Prix crashed into a parked semi tractor-trailer on Thursday just after 3 a.m. at a rest park ramp off I-65 in Jasper County.Investigators say that the man driving the car drove off the ramp and crashed directly into the parked truck from behind, causing the blunt force trauma that killed him.The truck was reportedly parked illegally and its driver, who was...

• Victim Critical After Truck-Van Crash

  Christina Cole | March 23, 2007 1:30 AM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL

  In a truck accident on Wednesday, a man was cut from his totaled pickup truck after crashing with a church bus. Police say he is still in critical condition. In the meantime 12 passengers of the bus and the bus driver were all taken to Mobile Infirmary for minor injuries in the crash.The man was transported by LifeFlight-Mobile helicopter to the University of South Alabama Medical Center for...

• Man dies in one-car accident

  Staff Writer | March 18, 2007 5:06 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  The Press-Register reported Saturday on a late-night possible drunk driving accident that killed the driver and amazingly did not injure the passenger last Thursday. The Chevrolet Silverado truck was heading west on Lott Road and ran off the road near Whigham Road when the driver lost control going around a curve. The truck reportedly rolled, and both men were ejected from the cab. The driver...

• Alabama truck driver killed in West Virginia accident

  Staff Writer | February 28, 2007 10:33 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  The State Journal of West Virginia reported on a Tuesday fatal trucking accident that involved a tractor-trailer, a logging truck and a car. The story says the car hit the logging truck, which in turn slowed down and was hit by a tractor-trailer. The motor vehicle accident occurred on the West Virginia Turnpike and closed southbound traffic at Mt. Hope for two hours as the accident was...

• One-vehicle accident kills motorist

  Staff Writer | February 26, 2007 1:02 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  Tuscalossa News reported a fatal one-vehicle accident Saturday in which a 21-year-old Duncanville man ran off the road and struck a tree. The tragedy occurred on Alabama Highway 117 in Northport when the man lost control of his Ford F150 pickup truck at 4 a.m. The driver was not wearing a seatbelt, and no other vehicles were invovled in the crash. Alamaba State Troopers are still investigating...

• Three trucks and a car collide in fatal accident

  Staff Writer | February 22, 2007 8:39 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A report from 11 Alive News out of Atlanta details a multi-fatal accident yesterday on Interstate 20 at the Alabama-Georgia border. I-20 was closed in both directions after three tractor-trailer trucks and one passenger vehicle were involved in a crash that killed three people. Apparently one of the tractor-trailer trucks hit the car from behind, causing both vehicles to burst into flames and...

• Propane Truck and Train Collide Killing Driver

  Christina Cole | February 21, 2007 10:06 PM | 0 CommentsHuntsville, AL

  Late Monday, firefighters were still attempting to control the fiery wreckage of a propane delivery truck that collided with a train on Monday in Morgan County. An AmeriGass employee's wife said a company official told her that the body of her husband was found beneath the truck but rescue was not able to get to it. "He's dead, trapped beneath the truck," said his wife through tears. "They will...

• Two UA students die at truck stop accident

  Staff Writer | February 19, 2007 1:48 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  Two students from the University of Alabama died Friday night in a motor vehicle accident at Merle's Truck Stop on Highway 231, according to a report from WSFA 12. Montgomery County Commissioner Reed Ingram says the accident was the result of poor markings at the truck stop and on the roadway, as well as too many parked trucks obstructing the view of the driver. Commissioner Ingram believes if...