Posts tagged Truck

• First Response Program Offers Helping Hand to Truck Accident Victims

  Bret Hanna | November 18, 2009 10:34 PM | 0 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  As indicated in a prior post, more than 5,000 people a year die in accidents involving tractor-trailers. That means that many individuals and families will be devastated each year by the injuries...

• Trucking Safety Must be a Top Priority

  Bret Hanna | November 16, 2009 10:54 PM | 0 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  Deaths resulting from accidents involving tractor-trailers between 2003 and 2006 exceeded 5,000 per year which is way too high. The Truck Safety Coalition (TSC) is dedicated to reducing these...

• Can we prevent another fatal crash on Bay Bridge?

  Claude Wyle | November 16, 2009 8:50 PM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  Most of us have heard the tragic news of the big rig driver who failed to negotiate the recently installed “S” curves in the Bay Bridge. A truck driver from Hayward died on Monday...

• Two Killed As Truck Hits A Deer In Wisconsin

  Mike Bryant | November 15, 2009 6:24 PM | 2 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN Category: Wrongful Death
  

  Saturday night, the driver and his 14 year old passenger where killed when they hit a deer in Woodman Township. The truck hit the deer and plunged down an embankment into a tree. The Minnesota...

• Pedestrian killed by Metrobus in DC, Not an isolated incident

  Steve Lombardi | November 12, 2009 1:40 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  According to the Washington Examiner, Stephanie Richardson, age 47, was killed by a Washington, D.C Metrobus. She was riding the Metrobus on October 5, 2009, when she got off at her stop, began to...

• Deadly Arkansas Tractor Trailer Crash on I-30

  Brett Emison | November 11, 2009 11:22 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  The Houston Chronicle reported that four people were killed and two others injured when a semi-truck crashed into vehicles stopped in an I-30 construction zone near Texarkana,...

• Loser Pays - A Bad Idea

  Danny Feldman | November 10, 2009 7:53 AM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  When I was a law student at Vanderbilt, a contracts professor asked a question about whether the loser to a lawsuit should be required to pay the foreseeable costs, ie. the winner's attorney fees. I...

• Kenai, Alaska Couple Killed In Nebraska Tractor Trailer Accident

  Brett Emison | November 09, 2009 4:32 PM | 1 CommentKansas City, MO Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  KTVA has reported that a Kenai, Alaska couple was killed in a multi-vehicle wreck in Nebraska. A Kenai family is in mourning tonight after Kenai residents William and Jane Mattson were killed in...

• I-35 Collision Kills Two

  Mike Bryant | November 08, 2009 9:50 PM | 0 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN Category: Wrongful Death
  

  This morning, I-35 was shutdown in Washington county near Forest Lake. The crash involved two vehicles and happened in the southbound lane of I-35 at Hwy. 8. The state patrol have reported that a...

• Semi Trucks And In Cab Computers

  Mike Bryant | November 07, 2009 9:32 AM | 0 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  There have been a lot of posts here at the Injuryboard covering the states that have been forward looking enough to make texting illegal while driving. Some states have added emails to ensure that...