Posts tagged truck

• Scaffolding Collapse Causes Catastrophic Highway Accident

  Claude Wyle | July 31, 2007 5:23 PM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Failure of scaffolding on a highway on ramp near Chico, California caused a catastrophic highway accident early this morning. Miraculously, no fatalities occurred when thirty-six tons of steel collapsed on top of vehicles underneath. Three people suffered serious injuries, including multiple broken bones. One survivor was trapped in his FedEx truck for more than three hours before being...

• Left Turn by PG&E Truck in Mission District Causes Severe Injuries to Bicyclist

  Claude Wyle | May 15, 2012 6:01 PM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  Bike to Work Day should have been a great day for all San Francisco Bay Area cyclists, however it was a very bad day for one 27-year-old cyclist who was struck by a PG&E truck as the truck...

• Bicyclist killed in Oakland "bicycle vs. A. C. Transit bus" accident after being hit by car door

  Claude Wyle | May 24, 2010 4:44 PM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  As a San Francisco bicycle accident attorney and avid bike rider I have devastating news to report today: A bicyclist was struck and killed by an Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District bus in...

• Truck Accident Under Investigation by California Highway Patrol

  Chrissie Cole | September 07, 2007 9:10 PM | 0 CommentsModesto, CA Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  A truck accident that happened last week is still under investigation by the California Highway Patrol (CHP).A 79-year-old truck driver was traveling westbound, on Highway 96, carrying logs, when for reasons still unknown, the truck ran off the south edge of the road.CHP is trying to determine how fast the driver was driving at the time of the crash. The truck went over the shoulder and down the...

• Semi Truck Collision with Amtrak Passenger Train on Way to San Francisco

  Claude Wyle | July 09, 2011 1:39 PM | 2 CommentsSan Francisco, CA Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  Sorry I have to report that a semi truck and an Amtrak train collided in Nevada last week en route from Chicago to San Francisco. The crash took six people's lives and was said to have occurred...

• Distractive driving. Killer number one of teen drivers in the USA

  David Rosenthal | August 11, 2010 2:18 PM | 0 CommentsChico, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Today’s teens are constantly admonished never to drink and drive. The Ad Council inundates the public with stirring images designed to make everyone think twice about potentially harmful...

• Michigan Trucking Company Cited for 15 Safety Violations

  Shannon Weidemann | August 02, 2007 12:54 PM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  A trucking accident in May killed 3 children and the company that employed the driver has been cited for 15 safety violations by the U.S. Department of Transportation. The accident happened in Mission Viejo on Interstate 5. K.W. Express is based in Michigan. About two weeks after the crash, the carrier safety administration informed the general manager of K.W. Express that his company did not...

• Fatal Parked Truck Accident In Irvine On 405 Freeway

  IB Contributor | July 01, 2007 5:48 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  Driver of a parked truck and his employer may be liable for traffic death.A truck accident on the San Diego Freeway last Wednesday took one life and injured another. The driver of a 1990 Ford Econoline died when his van veered off the southbound 405 Freeway in Irvine, the morning of June 29 and collided with a truck, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times. The Times reported that the...

• Mill Valley Bicycle Accident Attorney Sadly Reports Cyclist Injured in Truck vs. Bicycle Accident

  Claude Wyle | June 07, 2011 9:26 PM | 2 CommentsSan Francisco, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  As a lifetime Mill Valley resident and bicyclist and as a pro bicycle attorney and advocate, I am saddened and a bit outraged to report a serious bicycle versus dump truck accident in Mill Valley on...

• Vacuum Truck Driver Killed in Explosion

  Christina Cole | March 13, 2007 8:32 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Man Killed in a deadly oil field explosion.A man is dead after the vacuum truck he was driving hit an oil well triggering a horrendous explosion, this morning.He was found dead two hours after the fire was reported, according to Fire Department officials. At first, officials were under the assumption that it was a natural gas fire with no injuries. Fire Rescue had to stay a good distance away...