Posts tagged trucking accidents

• Galveston Garbage Truck Accident Kills Three

  Shannon Weidemann | January 09, 2008 11:34 AM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  A Monday morning garbage truck accident killed three people in Galveston County. The three victims were all riding in the garbage truck at the time of the accident. The accident happened shortly before before 10 a.m. on the northbound feeder road of Interstate 45 at F.M. 1764 when the driver lost control, causing the truck to flip over before hitting a concrete pillar.The victims were all...

• Pedestrian Hit by Semi-Truck in Nevada

  Shannon Weidemann | October 08, 2007 3:08 PM | 0 CommentsCharlotte, NC Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  A pedestrian was killed in Nevada after being hit by a semi-truck. The trucking accident happened on Friday evening on Highway 395. The victim was a 41-year-old woman. According to the Nevada Highway Patrol, she was walking on Pine Valley Road about 5:30 p.m. when she ran toward a Schneider Trucking Freightliner.The woman was thrown underneath the rear tires and crushed to death. It is...

• Dump Truck Accident Kills North Port Man

  Shannon Weidemann | September 11, 2007 11:18 AM | 0 CommentsCharlotte, NC Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  A dump truck accident near the Lee-Charlotte County line on US 41 has left a man from North Port dead. The 81-year-old victim was driving his pickup truck southbound on US 41. The dump truck pulled out onto US 41 in front of him. The pickup truck slammed into the back of the dump truck at 55 mph. Troopers shut down the highway while they investigated the accident. It happened just before...

• Huntersville Truck Accident Injures 2 People

  Shannon Weidemann | August 21, 2007 3:43 PM | 0 CommentsCharlotte, NC Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  A car driving on Interstate 77 in Huntersville drove underneath a semi-truck. Two people were trapped inside the car. The truck accident happened this morning near the exit to Gilead Road. Two people were pulled out of the mangled vehicle. A medical helicopter landed just south of the accident and transported one patient to the hospital around 11:30 a.m. Medic originally called for a second...

• Charter Bus Flips After Crashing with Tractor - Trailer

  Christina Cole | March 16, 2007 2:50 AM | 0 CommentsRaleigh, NC Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  A charter bus was involved in a trucking accident while returning to Williamston from Atlantic City, NJ, crashed with a tractor-trailer and flipped. A Washington woman was airlifted to the Medical College of Virginia on Thursday in Halifax.Five people - one from Jamesville and one from Washington, were airlifted to Pitt County Memorial Hospital after the bus collided with the tractor-trailer on...

• Truck Spills Fuel in Greenville

  Shannon Weidemann | March 20, 2008 5:42 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  A tractor-trailer driving on Greenville Boulevard had a fuel tank punctured by a steel rod. The puncture caused the fuel tank to leak, spilling over 30 gallons of diesel fuel on the road. The trucking accident happened near 10th Street. Some of the fuel spilled into the Tar River. "We were able to get there fairly quickly and put some sand on it and block most of it," Barrett said."Traffic...

• Dump Truck Hits Car in Ayden

  Shannon Weidemann | October 10, 2007 11:05 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  A car was hit by a dump truck after it tried to cross an intersection of N.C. 11. The trucking accident happened on Monday afternoon. The accident happened near Ayden at Dennis McLawhorn Road. The passenger side of the car was hit by the dump truck. The truck and the Toyota Camry came to rest on the highway's western shoulder. Official details were unavailable this afternoon.The driver...

• Hickory Trucking Accident Injures Man

  Shannon Weidemann | August 06, 2007 8:49 PM | 0 CommentsCharlotte, NC Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  A truck driver was pinned between a truck and a guardrail at the Institution Food House in Hickory on Monday. The trucking accident sent the man to the Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte for treatment. He was airlifted to the hospital. The accident happened at about 5:50 a.m. in the parking lot of Institution Food House, on 12th Street Drive N.W. off U.S. 321. Early on weekday mornings,...

• Tanker Truck Overturns in Charlotte

  Shannon Weidemann | July 19, 2007 4:24 PM | 0 CommentsCharlotte, NC Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  A tanker truck carrying nitric acid overturned in Charlotte Tuesday morning. The trucking accident happened on University City Boulevard at Interstate 485. Charlotte firefighters said the truck overturned on University City Boulevard after getting off of Interstate 485.An off-duty Charlotte firefighter pulled the driver out to safety, and he was not badly hurt. The truck landed on its side...

• Truck Spills Coal in West Virginia

  Shannon Weidemann | June 27, 2007 4:08 PM | 0 CommentsCharlotte, NC Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  A truck driver claims the brakes on his coal hauler failed causing an accident that left coal over the road and hillside. The trucking accident happened in Wellsburg on Mechling Hill Road. Rob McMahon, Brooke County director of emergency services, told the Brooke County Commission Tuesday part of the truck's load fell from the road and along the hillside above a reservoir many feet...