Tractor-Trailer Accidents

• Truck driver charged in deadly crash

  Tom Methvin | October 13, 2006 3:58 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  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

  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

  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...

• Seat Belts

  Rob McKinney | October 10, 2006 7:27 AM | 0 CommentsNashville, TN

  In Tennessee , it is required that everyone in a car must wear a sealtbelt . It is the number one safety feature on a car or truck to prevent serious injuries in a car or truck accident . What if you forget to wear your seatbelt ? Can that be used againist you in court ? The general rule is that the failure to wear a seatbelt shall not be admissible in a...

• Data Recorders

  Rob McKinney | October 09, 2006 7:15 AM | 0 CommentsNashville, TN

  I have written about the need to gather evidence since I started writing the blog . In trucking accidents and car wreck cases whoever has the most information and demonstrative evidence is far ahead in the case . Today, we will talk briefly about the data recorders known as the black box that are in a lot of cars and trucks now on the road . Event Data...

• Semi Tractor-Trailer Hits Vehicle and Goes Over Bridge

  Lee Coleman | October 06, 2006 7:20 AM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY

  Police recovered the body yesterday after the Semi plunged into the Licking River after striking a vehicle stopped in the emergency lane on Tuesday night. The vehicle he struck was unoccupied at the time of the incident. Part of I-64 was shut down for more than 20 hours due to the accident. The driver of the truck was still in the drivers seat, wearing a seat belt. The truck landed in about 30...

• Truck Accident Information

  Rob McKinney | October 05, 2006 4:39 PM | 0 CommentsNashville, TN

  Nashville and the surrounding counties such as Rutherford , Wilson , and Williamson Counties are blessed with three interstates . The only problem with the access to these interstates is the increased number of serious tractor trailer accidents . It is imperative for your case to hire an attorney immediately to begin an investigation. The main reason is to...

• Tractor Trailer Closes Louie B. Nunn Parkway

  Lee Coleman | September 28, 2006 7:00 AM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY

  Heavy rains may have caused a tractor trailer accident Friday just outside of Columbia on the Louie B. Nunn Parkway. The driver apparently lost control ran off the roadway and struck a guardrail, then crossed the westbound lanes, overturned and landed in the median. The Adair County Rescue Squad had to extricate the driver who was then transported to the University of Louisville Hospital. The...

• Tractor Trailer crash kills driver

  Cal Warriner | September 27, 2006 8:51 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  In what appears to be an accident caused by the decedent automobile driver how quickly semi-tractor trailers can kill is graphically displayed. Yesterday in Miami, a man inexplicably pulled out in front of a semi-tractor trailer carrying cars. The truck collided with the automobile, the two became entangled and continued down the road until they hit a second tractor trailer waiting at a stop...

• Trucking Accidents causing more Wrongful Death

  Cal Warriner | September 18, 2006 9:23 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  Nationwide, 5200 Americans died last year and thousands more were injured in trucking accidents. A detailed and informative, new investigative report by the Dallas Morning News shows trucking accidents are becoming more frequent and predictable. More innocent drivers are falling victim to an industry that is increasingly placing profits ahead of safety. Companies frequently hire felons, drunks...