Tractor-Trailer Accidents

• Federal Regulators Miss Chance to Lower Truck Accidents

  Michael Phelan | December 20, 2007 4:23 PM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA

  Driver fatigue is a leading cause of tractor trailer truck accidents. Consumer advocates sued recently to require the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to lower the current 11-hour driving limit to 10 hours. The requested change would have resulted in one less hour behind the wheel each day. The Teamsters union supports the lower limit. Alas, the Bush Administration once again...

• Trucking Company Pays For Reckless Driving Death of Two Children

  Greg Webb | December 19, 2007 9:30 AM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  In a Madera County, California case, Brundage-Bone Concrete Pumping, a nationwide concrete pumping company, has agreed to pay nine million dollars in a wrongful death lawsuit to the parents of two children killed in an automobile accident involving one of the company's trucks. The two sisters, Korren Radke, seven years old, and Chloe Baker, two years old, were killed last June when the company's...

• Tractor Trailer Crash Yields $36.5 Million Award To Crash Victim's Family

  Greg Webb | December 16, 2007 3:44 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  In April 2004, Thomas Steven, a Wichita businessman and father of eight, was killed in an automobile accident due to the negligence of Steven Jones, a Swift tractor trailer driver. Swift is one of the largest trucking companies in the United States, hauling goods and cargo for such companies as Wal-Mart, Target, and Rite-Aid. Jones failed to slow down on a sweeping flat curve leading to an...

• Trucking Accident Kills Alabama Man

  Shannon Weidemann | December 14, 2007 8:33 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A trucking accident in Oregon killed a 23-year-old man from Alabama on Tuesday morning. He was driving an SUV on Highway 58 when he was hit by a semi-truck after crossing the center line. The semi-truck burst into flames after the collision. A good samaritan rescued the driver of the semi-truck. He is at the hospital.Investigation determined that the deceased drove a 2002 Nissan Pathfinder...

• Trucking Accident Closes Down Highway for Tanker Spill Clean Up

  Chrissie Cole | December 11, 2007 2:11 AM | 0 CommentsIndianapolis, IN

  A trucking accident, Monday, forced U.S. 31 to close while the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency tested for the after-effects of liquid petroleum gas released in the accident.The accident occurred when the gas truck slowed to a stop for a train and a second truck crashed into the tanker. One of the semi-trucks was hauling liquid natural gas (cryogenic liquid), according to reports by Indiana...

• Two children suffer personal injury from truck accident

  Anneke Kurt | December 07, 2007 4:53 PM | 0 CommentsSandusky, OH

  Our Toledo, Ohio truck accident attorneys see firsthand the affects personal injury resulting from a truck accident can have on a family. Truck accidents involving semi-tractor trailers, can cause devastating personal injury or even wrongful death. At least three people suffered personal injury in Fulton County on Wednesday, after two semi-trucks and an SUV collided in a truck accident,...

• Fulton County truck accident causes personal injury to children

  Anneke Kurt | December 07, 2007 4:34 PM | 0 CommentsFindlay, OH

  At least three people suffered personal injury in Fulton County on Wednesday, after two semi-trucks and an SUV collided in a truck accident, according to the Toledo Blade. The truck accident caused two children to be airlifted to a local hospital for personal injuries. Our Toledo, Ohio truck accident attorneys see firsthand the affects personal injury resulting from a truck accident can have on...

• San Francisco Bound Gambling Bus Crash With Truck; Kills Driver

  Claude Wyle | December 05, 2007 4:10 PM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA

  What started out as a peaceful bus ride to the Indian Casino for a bit of gambling, has turned ugly, with a bus crashing head-on into a pick up truck, and killing the driver of the pick-up. CHP investigators are still investigating last Sunday night's fatal bus crash, which killed one person and caused serious personal injuries for several more. There is talk of a side swipe and of dangerous...

• Fatal Truck Crash Results in $36.3 million Verdict

  Michael Phelan | December 05, 2007 2:57 PM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA

  On a clear day in April 2004, a father of eight kids and owner of a plumbing supply company, was driving his Chevrolet Suburban and obeying the rules of the road. At the same time, a driver of a Swift Transportation tractor-trailer drove 65 mph across three sets of rumble strips designed to warn of an approaching stop sign, ran the stop sign, and crashed into the Suburban, killing the father. ...

• Tara E. Clark killed in Trucking Accident - Lawyer

  Sach Oliver | December 05, 2007 10:02 AM | 0 CommentsBentonville , AR

  A 36 year old Bella Vista woman was killed in a two-vehicle accident on U.S. Highway 71 in Jane, Missouri around 10:30pm Sunday night. A Kenworth tractor-trailer caused the accident. The Missouri State Highway Patrol is investigating.Harry E. Black who is age 40 was driving, eastbound, in his 2002 Buick. Tara D. Clark was his passenger. Their car was struck in passenger's side by a Kenworth...