Tractor-Trailer Accidents

• Evaluation of Your Case

  Rob McKinney | November 17, 2006 4:52 PM | 0 CommentsNashville, TN

  It is high school football playoff time in Tennessee . There is a big game in Rutherford County tonite . Murfreesboro Riverdale goes up against Smyrna . Good luck to both teams . In football just like your case you need to evaluate your strengths and weaknesses . There are three keys to evaluating your truck accident case . First , you must determine...

• Fatal accident lands truck driver in jail

  Staff Writer | November 17, 2006 12:33 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  Two trucks collided Tuesday morning just west of Dothan, Alabama, at the intersection of Highway 84 and Houston County Road 9. Tragically, a Florida man driving one of the trucks was killed in the crash. Though details are not provided in the report on WTVYnews4.com, State Troopers arrested the driver of the other truck for manslaughter. The trucking accident is yet another sad story about the...

• Truck Crash on Tollway

  Jamie G. Goldstein | November 17, 2006 8:30 AM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL

  Two truck accidents only 40 minutes apart on the Tri-State Tollway in Illinois. No one was killed in either accidents but injuries were reported in one of the accidents.Both trucks were out-of-control when they crashed and caused lane closures. Luckily in these two crashes no one was killed. Two accidents in one day and so close to one another makes one question how safe we really are with...

• 2.5 Million Settlement by our Truck Accident Lawyers

  Claude Wyle | November 12, 2006 11:04 AM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA

  Our truck accident attorneys fought for, and won a $2,500,000 settlement, for a sixty-six year old woman, who was paralyzed when she was rear-ended and run off the road by a big rig, in Monterrey County, California. The truck driver lied to the CHP and said that our client had made and unsafe pass over the double yellow line, and that she had clipped the front of the big rig. Although the police...

• Hit-and-Run Driver Surrenders Five Days After Serious Car v. Truck Accident

  Claude Wyle | November 11, 2006 10:11 AM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA

  The driver of a car who rear ended a truck on the Altamont Pass on Highway 580 last Saturday, and fled the accident scene has surrendered to the CHP. A 22 year old woman who was driving a Toyota Echo rammed a pick-up truck full of people, causing the pick-up truck to go off the road and to roll over several times. The family of five who were in the car v. truck accident all suffered serious...

• Truck Rollover Accidents

  Ken Margolin | November 10, 2006 1:00 PM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA

  Rollovers of large commercial trucks cost lives as well as millions of dollars of property loss each year. Some studies have shown that speeds during steady turns, believed to be safe by the truck drivers, are often close to their truck's rollover border line. In other words, some dangerous driving by truck drivers is not out of intentional recklessness, but ignorance of the physical properties...

• Man dies in Highway 12 Crash in Fairfield

  Ed Smith | November 08, 2006 10:45 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA

  A 74 year old man, Kenneth Graybeal, was killed Wednesday afternoon when a trailer truck travelling EB on Highway 12 approached the intersection of Beck avenue and struck a Dodge minivan stopping for a red light. Graybeal was a passenger in the minivan and died of blunt force trauma to the head.Many truck accidents result from fatigue. Police are investigiating further the cause of this accident.

• Child hit by truck prompts parade debate

  Staff Writer | November 03, 2006 9:45 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  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...

• Black Box Data critical in Disputed Liability Accidents

  Ed Smith | October 29, 2006 2:45 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA

  An unappreciated piece of evidence in a trucking accident is often the black box data which can be obtained. The primary purpose of a "black box" is to determine by various inputs if air bag deployment is needed. These black boxes or electronic data recorders do not chart data over long periods of time, but they DO normally record data from various sensors for up to 5 seconds before an...

• Information on tractor-trailer underride accidents

  Staff Writer | October 26, 2006 12:52 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  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...