Texas updates in category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents

Three people were injured in an accident in Kaufman County late last night. The service road along Highway 80 was shut down at Windmill Farms Boulevard after a tractor-trailer crashed into two...

-35E southbound was shut down south of Zang Boulevard according to <a...

An 18-wheeler plummeted into the environmentally sensitive San Marcos River this morning and emergency workers have been working to remove the fuel from the truck tank. The truck cab had been...

Dallas police have apparently become fed up with the increase in trucking accidents. Last week, the Dallas police department conducted surprise inspections of tractor trailer rigs in the city....

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...

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...

In August of 2004 Ruben Zamora, 41, was severely injured when he was involved in a rollover accident in his 1993 Ford Explorer. Zamora lost control of the vehicle when the tread of one of the back tires separated causing the tail end of the SUV to swing sideways and resulted in the rollover. Zamora was ejected from the vehicle during the rollover. The previously disabled oilfield worker suffered...

The family of a man who was killed in a recent bus crash near Victoria is suing the bus owner, the operator and the driver of the vehicle. Pedro Mendez was killed during the accident that occurred on January 2 that seriously injured many other passengers. The bus was headed to Houston from Monterrey, Mexico.The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Harris County District Court, alleges three companies...

A Mexican tour bus collided with a truck on Wednesday, January 2, killing one and injuring several others. The charter bus, carrying almost 50 passengers, veered off the highway and then over-corrected, which caused the bus to tip over onto its side. Then, once the bus had crashed on U.S. 59 near Victoria, a pickup truck collided with the overturned bus. The driver of the pickup was not...

The General Accounting Office has recently used undercover investigators to reveal how easy it is for truckers to cheat on drug tests. The report found that seventy-five percent of the drug testing locations didn't maintain secure testing areas, allowing truckers to compromise the results of drug tests. In addition, the study found numerous online masking agents that they were able to use in...

It would seem to be unusual way for a trucking accident to occur, but a new story in the Indianapolis Star reports that six people have been killed on the nation's highways this year by wheels that broke loose from semi trucks. The latest victim was a police officer that was helping another officer at a traffic stop. Particularly disconcerting is the fact that the truck driver didn't even...

Each year thousands of people are seriously injured or killed in 18 wheeler related accidents. Often times over worked drivers and drivers who are in a hurry to get their load from one place to another are to blame.Hilliard and Munoz LLP have the resources and legal skills you need on your side in the event you or a loved one has been seriously injured or killed as a result of a negligent truck...

An 18-Wheeler accident in Katy on Interstate 10 has left the driver dead. The westbound side of the freeway was shut down for hours while the roadway could be cleared and the accident investigated. The Harris County Sheriff's Office says the man lost control and hit a large street sign around 4:30 a.m. on Interstate 10 at Magnolia. The driver was ejected from the truck and pronounced dead at...

Three men in a Chevorolet Cavalier were killed after they were hit by a semi-truck. The 18-Wheeler Accident happened at the intersection of U.S. 98 and 198 in Lucedale. Gazzo said it appears the three men, in a 1999 Chevrolet Cavalier, pulled out in front of the truck.The impact threw the car under the 18-wheeler, which came to a stop west of Rocky Creek Road, according to the Highway...

An 18-Wheeler driving on Interstate 37 in Corpus Christi overturned and spilled 5,000 gallons of No. 6 fuel oil onto Harbor Bridge. The 18-Wheeler accident happened at the end of August. Crews had to work to keep the fuel oil from going into the Corpus Christi Ship Channel. The police department believes that the driver was speeding on the turn and that is why the truck overturned. Cmdr....