North Carolina updates in category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents

A jury in Wyoming has awarded more than $18 million to a man injured in a tractor-trailer accident in 2006. The plaintiff, an Irish immigrant, suffered a severe traumatic brain injury when the...

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A Canadian family heading south on Interstate 77 in Virginia was involved in a tractor-trailer accident Thursday evening. Three people were killed and two were injured. The accident happened in...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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Two tractor-trailers were driving on Interstate 70 Friday morning when they collided, causing one truck to spill corrosive chemicals. The trucking accident happened in Frederick County. The accident happened when an Arnold Trucking tractor-trailer ran out of fuel as it traveled up South Mountain, troopers said. A second tractor-trailer, owned by Baylor Trucking, then hit the...

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Two paramedics were injured when their MEDIC truck overturned at least twice in a trucking accident this morning. "There was certainly potential for serious injuries, we are thankful these guys weren't seriously injured," said a MEDIC spokesman.The two-person crew was in transit to a call near Charlotte/Douglas International Airport at approximately 11:15 a.m. when the trucked rolled over....

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A trucking company based in California has lost its license to carry hazardous materials. The trucking company delivered gasoline to 20 gas stations in the Bay Area. On April 29th one of the company's tanker trucks crashed into a highway ramp, causing a fiery trucking accident. The suspension was based on results of an inspection of Sabek's terminal in King City done once every two years,...

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The driver of a logging truck ran a red light and broadsided a van containing one adult driver and four child passengers. The driver of the van had just picked the children up from school and was pulling out of the parking lot when it was hit. Two of the children were killed immediately. The driver and other children were airlifted to the hospital. The driver of the logging truck was charged...

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