Tractor-Trailer Accidents

• Truck Accident Slows Rush-Hour Traffic

  Staff Writer | October 23, 2006 2:18 PM | 0 CommentsIndianapolis, IN

  A tractor-trailer flipped onto its side this morning around 7:45 and caused major headaches for rush-hour travelers. The truck accident occurred on northbound I-65 around mile marker 135 and authorities checked the rig's driver for minor injuries. Luckily none of the interstate's lanes were blocked by the overturned 18-wheeler involved in the wreck.

• Big Rig-Bus crash closes Power Inn Road

  Ed Smith | October 21, 2006 6:15 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA

  A big rig crashed into the back of an R.T. bus Friday morning, October 20th, sending 3 people in the bus to the hospital.The big rig allegedly slammed into the bus when going thru a yellow light, overturning the bus. The trucker apparently escaped injury. The attached article is an excllent summary of the causes of trucking accidents.

• Problems in Texas affect citizens in other states

  Tom Methvin | October 20, 2006 4:13 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  It appears that the state of Texas has been doing a very poor job of regulating the trucking industry. As a result, trucks from Texas can create safety hazards when these trucks travel into other states. It should be noted that the trucking industry in the U.S. has grown at a rapid pace. That has also been the case in the Lone Star State. It appears that the trucking industry's growth has...

• No excuse not to trim trees around intersection

  Ed Smith | October 18, 2006 5:48 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA

  Government immunity may protect a government entity in its decisions and judgments about putting up signs at an intersection. However, there is no protection if the government entity allows trees or buhes to obstruct those signs so they cannot be readily seen by motorists.In a recent Texas case, Plaintiff was allowed to pursue its claim against the state of Texas where there was a trucking...

• Truck races train---loses badly (Video)

  Ed Smith | October 16, 2006 2:56 AM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA

  Here's another video on how not to enter a train crossing. A trucker decides her can beat this oncoming train, but doesn't realize a line of cars is blocking his path on the other side of the tracks.Many accidents at train crossings are due to the motorists error, however many train crossing accidents are due to negligence on the part of the railroad.

• Settlement in death case

  Tom Methvin | October 13, 2006 4:12 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  Beasley Allen recently reached a settlement of $4 million dollars with David Bulger, Inc., a trucking company, in a highway construction project death case. The settlement, which was partial in nature, was only for the claim against that company. We still have a claim pending against Wiregrass Construction Company, the general contractor on the project, which we believe has at least equal...

• Truck driver charged in deadly crash

  Tom Methvin | October 13, 2006 3:58 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A truck driver has been charged with homicide in a crash that killed five people and injured 29 others on a bus carrying high school band students home from a weekend competition. The man's tractor-trailer had swerved off an Interstate highway and jackknifed across the bus' path before dawn on October 16th. The charter bus slammed into the rig, killing the band's director, his wife, their...

• Recent court cases raise questions about trucking safety

  Tom Methvin | October 13, 2006 3:56 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  Over the past several years a "disturbing pattern of dangerous activity" by the nation's trucking industry has developed. We find that a good number of the fatalities resulting from trucking accidents involve driver fatigue. During 2004, 5,190 people were killed in truck crashes, an increase of 154 fatalities over 2003. Additionally, in 2004, the number of truckers killed in crashes increased...

• Interstate crash case settled

  Tom Methvin | October 13, 2006 3:54 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  Our firm, Beasley Allen, has negotiated a settlement in a wrongful death arising out of an interstate highway crash that occurred in Baldwin County, Alabama. We representated the families of two ladies who were state employees traveling to an educational seminar in Mobile. While stopped in traffic due to a prior accident along with a number of cars, an 18-wheeler plowed into their car at a...

• Seat Belts

  Rob McKinney | October 10, 2006 7:27 AM | 0 CommentsNashville, TN

  In Tennessee , it is required that everyone in a car must wear a sealtbelt . It is the number one safety feature on a car or truck to prevent serious injuries in a car or truck accident . What if you forget to wear your seatbelt ? Can that be used againist you in court ? The general rule is that the failure to wear a seatbelt shall not be admissible in a...