Truck Accidents

A six-vehicle pile-up in Alachua County, Florida this week took the life of one of the county’s employees. Sadly, the accident involved several county employees as they were all returning from an early morning meeting. The accident, which occurred in Gainesville, took the life of one of the county’s animal services employees. The victim apparently…   Read More

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) released the final version of their 2012-2016 Strategic Plan which is designed to move toward a future in which there are zero accidents caused by commercial motor vehicles.  Anne S. Ferro, the administrator of the FMCSA, said, “Every life is precious and even one fatality is too many.”…   Read More

Last month, a tractor trailer speeding down the road in Sullivan County, TN, raced through a red light and slammed into two cars. The drivers of both cars were taken to the hospital. In another incident, on January 31, in Roanoke County, VA a 61-year-old man was killed when a tractor trailer sped through a…   Read More

The City of Baltimore announced this week that it has settled with the families of accident victims from a 2007 crash involving a city fire truck. The families of the victims will split $40,000. That’s $40,000 for the lives of three people who were killed in the accident. How could such a small award be…   Read More

A tragic accident in Lincoln, Illinois, this past week took two lives. The accident took place on Interstate 55 near Lincoln in the late hours of the morning on May 9. Early reports indicate that a Hyundai driven by a 21-year-old female was stopped in the right-hand lane of southbound Interstate 55. The vehicle did not…   Read More

Last December, a terrible accident occurred on Highway 129, in North Carolina, just south of Asheboro.  A tractor trailer, driven by 36-year-old Timothy McCarty of Concord, NC, passed five cars in a no passing zone before cresting a hill.  At that point, he met three oncoming cars.  McCarty drove the first car off the road,…   Read More

A deadly accident occurred last Friday when a father and son were riding their motorcycles home from Oklahoma to Texas. The son, 15, of Lubbock, TX was killed when he tried to pass a tractor trailer and the truck veered into his lane, running into his motorcycle and eventually into a guardrail. Both the motorcycle…   Read More

A Pennsylvania tractor-trailer driver was seriously injured when the box truck he was driving struck another tractor-trailer on I-85 outside Petersburg, Virginia early Wednesday morning.  The PA man was flown to the hospital with serious, life-threatening injuries, according to WTVR.com. According to the news report, the 3:15 a.m. accident occurred when the driver of a…   Read More

Reckless driving is one of the leading causes of truck accidents in the United States.  Every year, thousands of people die in truck accidents, and hundreds of thousands more are injured.  Unfortunately, all too often, this is due to reckless driving on the part of truck drivers.  The Large Truck Crash Causation Study, undertaken by…   Read More

In the wake of yet another fatal crash involving a 15-passenger van – this one related to an alleged tire failure – the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has again issued a consumer advisory about those vans. A safety advocacy group notes that it is the eighth warning the agency has issued about those vans…   Read More