Tractor-Trailer Accidents

• Semi Truck Leaves One Dead After Collision on Interstate 24

  Daryl Dixon | November 19, 2007 4:55 PM | 0 CommentsPaducah, KY

  Cecil Burnett is dead after being hit by a semi truck on Interstate 24. The semi struck a vehicle that was stopped in the eastbound lane near the Ohio River Bridge. The impact of the collision ejected Cecil Burnett from the vehicle, and he was later pronounced dead on the scene. Two additional cars were unable to avoid the wrecked vehicles, injuring two other passengers. Western Kentucky...

• Investigators Focus on Cause of Truck Wheel Separation

  David Lowe | November 14, 2007 7:51 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  Last week I wrote about the uninsured motorist coverage issues raised by the news story about a Mequon, Wisconsin motorist killed by a flying truck tire that had come loose, crossed a highway median, and flown into the victim's windshield. The victim was later identified as Krishna Chintamaneni, the highly regarded chief of staff of Milwaukee's St. Francis Hospital. But the truck owner has now...

• Tanker Truck Wreck Lawyer

  Sach Oliver | November 06, 2007 9:54 AM | 0 CommentsBentonville , AR

  A tanker truck in East Lyme, Connecticut was hauling home heating oil when he crossed into oncoming traffic. The accident happened this last Friday. The tanker killed three people in a multivehicle accident and shut down a major highwayWitnesses said the tanker was northbound on Interstate 95 when the driver lost control and drove through the guardrail, over the median, and into southbound...

• Thomasville Man Killed in Trucking Accident

  Shannon Weidemann | November 05, 2007 8:40 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A 24-year-old man from Thomasville was killed in a trucking accident on Highway 19 in Mississippi. He was driving a pickup truck and he was hit by an 18-wheeler. He died on the scene from his injuries. The 18-wheeler was based out of Montgomery. Shreds of rubber from at least three blown tires on the flat bed trailer were strewn along about 100 feet of the roadway. There also were shredded...

• Trucking Accident Report: Truckers Can Easily Cheat on Drug Tests(2)

  Brooks Schuelke | November 04, 2007 3:44 PM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  The General Accounting Office has recently used undercover investigators to reveal how easy it is for truckers to cheat on drug tests. The report found that seventy-five percent of the drug testing locations didn't maintain secure testing areas, allowing truckers to compromise the results of drug tests. In addition, the study found numerous online masking agents that they were able to use in...

• Womens Legs Almost Cut Off In Accident

  Glenn Phillips | November 01, 2007 9:41 AM | 0 CommentsEverett, WA

  A pedestrian's legs were nearly severed when a man crashed into the two parked cars surrounding her Saturday night, police said. A woman who was pinned between both vehicles involved in the crash had her legs nearly severed from the impact. The woman was standing between two parked cars on North Chautauqua Boulevard just before 5:30 p.m. when a pickup truck struck the car behind her. The impact...

• Tractor Trailer Accidents Kills Five People

  Sach Oliver | October 23, 2007 10:39 AM | 0 CommentsEl Dorado , AR

  In Pine Bluff there was a tragic accident that caused five people to lose their lives. The accident happened around 12:30 Saturday afternoon, eight miles south of Pine Bluff on highway 425. Sadly, four of those who lost their live were children.Roy Lee Jordan from Benton, Mississippi was traveling north on Highway 425 when his truck crossed the center line. The semi crashed into the victim's car...

• Trucking Accident Causes Fiery Freeway Accident

  Claude Wyle | October 18, 2007 5:37 PM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA

  Two people suffered fatal injuries in a fiery pileup inside a Southern California freeway tunnel on Sunday night. Two trucks triggered the accident when they collided into each other, which led to a serious of chain-reaction accidents, involving at least 15 trucks. Ten people suffered serious injuries, and it took over 300 firefighters to extinguish the blaze.For more information on this...

• Gavel Truck Collides with School Bus on Kentucky Interstate

  Chrissie Cole | October 18, 2007 6:10 AM | 0 CommentsPaducah, KY

  A gavel truck was the cause of a trucking accident on a Kentucky Interstate 197, Wednesday, when it struck that back of a school bus sending more than two dozen children to the hospital for medical treatment.The truck driver was cited for a drug related DUI.The bus driver was attempting to stop when the truck crashed into the bus, according to Kentucky State Police. Four students and the bus...

• Arkansas Truck Driver Safety

  Sach Oliver | October 16, 2007 11:19 AM | 0 CommentsBentonville , AR

  Trial attorneys should smile at the safety that Wal-Mart truck driver, Danny Ewell, has demonstrated over his career. Mr. Ewell should be commended for keeping our highways safer and we should encourage other truck drivers to follow in his lead. Danny Ewell, driving for Wal-Mart, has driven 2.7 million miles without a preventable accident. This is a miracle and a blessing because when driving...