Regional updates tagged with 'Trucking Accidents'

Individuals who have been seriously injured in accidents involving commercial trucks such as 18 wheelers should seek legal advice as soon as possible.  Often times, individuals choose to wait a few...

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Are Florida’s lawyers spending less time helping those who cannot afford to pay? The Florida Bar, reports that the number of hours Florida lawyers donate to the poor every year is on the decline,...

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A Kentucky Car Wreck with a Semi Truck has claimed two lives in Cambell County Kentucky.

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On Tuesday afternoon a freight train rolled from a side track onto the main line and collided with a commuter train that was stationary injuring over 200 people. Around 150 people were treated on scene and another 80 were taken to local hospitals. None of the injuries were life-threatening and the majority were minor. There were about 300 passengers on the Stoughton-bound train.Pesaturo said...

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Grammy-winning Tejano singer Emilio Navaira was critically injured on Sunday after his band's bus crashed on a highway in Houston.Navaira and his band Rio had performed at a Houston nightclub on Saturday night. At about 5 a.m. Sunday, the band's bus slammed into traffic barrels on Interstate 610 northbound in Bellaire, a well-to-do enclave within the city west of downtown Houston, Bellaire...

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The Purcell Register is reporting that a Texas man remained in critical condition Tuesday after the semi he was driving left the interstate and landed on state Highway 74 (Grant Street) in Purcell. This is a horrible accident that shows the devastation a semi can cause in an accident. Our prayers go out to the families of those effecting by this trucking accident. I've posted the story...

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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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Here is an interesting legal secret that I have done for clients. In Oklahoma, you can make your uninsured/underinsured motorist carrier pay first in a car wreck or trucking wreck. This is often faster than dealing with the negligent parties insurance and can at times pay more since your UM carrier has a good faith duty to you, its insured.36 Okla. Stat. § 3636 specifically states that "for...

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According to newsok.com a Chickasha man died in a two-vehicle accident in Blaine County. Per the authorities, the now deceased Leon Smith was driving a tractor-trailer loaded with hay bales south on State Highway 8, about four miles south of Hitchcok, according to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.Smith tried to negotiate a curve at a high rate of speed when the tractor-trailer rolled on its side,...

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I've become more and more fascinated with people who drive distracted. Whether text messaging, talking on a cell phone, doing makeup, shaving with an electric razor, styling hair, watching a movie, writing a grocery list, or putting in contact lenses: These activities have become common place on the America Road. Simply, with technology and are busy lives coming into one, more and more...

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Our Toledo, Ohio truck accident attorneys urge drivers to be careful on the roads, in order to prevent truck accidents. A truck accident happened at State Rt. 2 and N. Curtice Road, and the intersection was closed shortly after when the semi-truck spilled oil onto the road. At least one person suffered personal injury last Thursday when the truck accident occurred near Maumee Bay State Park,...

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Proving your medical bills is a hard problem for most of my clients to understand. The general public assumes that once you get treatment for your injuries in a truck accident case that you simply provide your medical bills to the insurance company. If your lawsuit is filed, you have to prove your medical bills by taking medical proof by way of depositions. There are three...

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Yesterday a California appeals court reinstated an $82.6 million award to a woman who was left a paraplegic after a rollover accident in her Ford Explorer. Benetta Buell-Wilson's spine was crushed when the vehicle rolled over and the roof collapsed due to a defect that Ford was allegedly aware of and failed to remedy or warn consumers about. At the original trial a jury awarded Buell-Wilson and...

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Being the father of a girl who will be going to her first prom this year and a trial lawyer, I have to admit that I'm paranoid. I'm paranoid about her behaviour because she is a great child. What I'm concerned about is the other chiildren attending these events and the statistics about car wrecks that come with the prom. Studies show that alcohol related crashes kill more people from the ages...

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I wanted to follow up on the trucking accident that killed a family of 4 from Joplin, Missouri. Azcentral.com is reporting that police are recommending that the truck driver be charged with 4 counts of negligent homicide. If you recall, the accident happened in Pryor Oklahoma where the truck driver negligently rear-ended the family of 4 at a stop light.This sad story once again reiterates the...

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