Posts tagged tractor-trailer

• Travel Alert: Fiery Crash Closes I-85 South In Orange County, NC

  Pierce Egerton | June 30, 2011 12:14 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  Traffic on I-85 / photo credit Jenny Rossbach If you’re heading to the beach early for the Independence Day weekend and your journey includes I-85 South in Orange County, you may want to...

• Fatal South Carolina Highway Crash Raises Tricky Liability Issues

  Shapiro, Lewis & Appleton | July 24, 2011 3:38 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  A deadly highway merging accident in central South Carolina has the potential to bring even greater suffering to a family who lost two children or to a tractor-trailer driver who suffered injuries...

• Two Multiple-Car Pile Ups on Mother’s Day Result in Two Tragic Deaths

  Pierce Egerton | May 11, 2010 12:54 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  Two different mothers lost a child on Mothers Day, May 9, 2010 in Greensboro, North Carolina when two separate multiple-car collisions resulted in the deaths of two young people. The first...

• Tractor-Trailer Crash Closes Down I-26 in North Carolina

  Jim Lewis | July 16, 2009 10:43 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  A tractor-trailer crashed in the westbound lane of Interstate 26 in the Polk County, North Carolina section of the highway on Friday morning hurting the driver with non-life threatening injuries....

• Danger on the Interstate: Bottlenecks

  Pierce Egerton | May 26, 2010 12:46 PM | 1 CommentGreensboro, NC Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Several regrettable incidents on Piedmont Triad roads in North Carolina over the past few weeks remind me of an issue that should concern motorists everywhere. The phenomenon develops when traffic...

• Woman’s Body Found on I-40 after Apparent Hit-and-Run Death

  Lawrence Egerton | February 12, 2010 2:09 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Wrongful Death
  

  Durham, North Carolina police were sent to remove a “deer” presumably hit by a vehicle on Interstate 40 East Wednesday morning, February 10, 2010. When they arrived on the scene, police...

• Drivers Injured, Cows Killed as Livestock Truck Hits SUV South of Raleigh

  Shapiro, Lewis & Appleton | March 11, 2010 11:27 AM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A tractor-trailer carrying cows to a slaughterhouse slammed into an SUV on U.S. 421 outside of the town of Lillington, North Carolina (NC), just before midnight on March 7, 2010. Both the driver of...

• Tractor-Trailer Accident Causes Fatality in Concord, North Carolina

  Randy Appleton | October 31, 2009 9:08 AM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  A tractor-trailer owned by Martin's Abbatoir Wholesale Meat Company carrying a truck load of cattle over turned on Interstate 85 in Concord, North Carolina (NC) injuring one person and killing...

• Another Train Wreck in Central North Carolina

  Lawrence Egerton | June 07, 2010 5:01 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  Several news media outlets report that a train collided with a tractor-trailer this morning, June 7, 2010 in Cleveland, North Carolina. The train was not derailed; however, the driver of the...

• Pedestrian Killed on Exit Ramp near Winston-Salem, North Carolina

  Pierce Egerton | May 19, 2010 12:06 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  A man was killed on the morning of May 17, 2010 while he stood on the side of an exit ramp waiting for the pickup truck he’d been riding in to be removed from the mud. Torrential rains...