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DALLAS, Tx. — According to Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesman, Jason Evans, the driver of a semi truck was killed after his 18 wheeler slammed into one of the pillars on the Dolphin Road bridge overpass I-30, apparently at full speed, just east of Fair Park in East Dallas. No other vehicles were involved.

An 18 wheeler sits totally demolished after a deadly crash on June 10, 2012 where a trucker was killed after smashing head-on into a bridge support pillar on the westbound I-30 in Dallas, TX.

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PARKER COUNTY, TX — A truck driver may have fallen asleep while driving eastbound on Interstate 20 in Parker County on Friday June 8 causing the 18-wheeler he was driving to drift off the Interstate, roll down an embankment and catch fire.

View of embankment and overpass on the eastbound side of I-20 at FM 113 where a truck driver fell asleep, ran off the Interstate and was killed on June 8, 2012.

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FORT WORTH, TX — An 18 wheeler truck accident took place Wednesday, June 6, when the 18-wheeler, carrying a steel beam, hit a railroad bridge with a portion of the beam while attempting to cross underneath Highway 114 in north Fort Worth.

Work crews use a crane to hoist a fallen steel beam after an 18 wheeler that was hauling it struck a railroad bridge and knocked it off onto the roadway below on June 6, 2012. A sign showing a clearance of 13' 10" was posted (foreground right).

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BRENHAM, TX — A 31-year-old Temple man was killed when the pickup he was driving collided head-on with an oncoming Exxon Mobil tanker truck.

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IN THE 87TH JUDICIAL COURT OF ANDERSON COUNTY, TEXAS:

Houston truck accident lawyer, Gordon, Elias & Seely, LLP, represent a 63-year-old mother and grandmother from Richmond, TX who was injured when DEFENDANT, semi truck driver, Cody Oliver, employed by 5J TRUCKING, L.L.C. was speeding and hit a passenger vehicle that in turn hit the PLAINTIFF at the time of the incident.

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Texas is one of many states found to have a high incident of rollover truck accidents. New Research from the American Transportation Research Institute has produced a database of locations with the highest frequency of large truck rollovers by using more than 50,000 crash records from a nine-year period (from 2001-2009). The database covers 31 states part of a three-part research effort aimed at mitigating costly large truck rollovers, covers 31 states.

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SOCIAL CIRCLE, Ga. — Over 61 Burke County students were shaken up on Saturday, May 19, after a chain reaction involving six buses full of children headed for a Six Flags amusement park outside Atlanta crashed, officials told reporters.

Over 50 people were injured in a multiple school bus accident in Social Circle, GA on I-20 East of Covington and just west of the Georgia Highway 11 on May 19, 2012.

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HOUSTON, TX — According to Houston TranStar officials, a two-vehicle accident involving a semi truck and passenger vehicle occurred on Friday morning, May 11, at about 9 a.m. on the northbound Southwest Freeway near the South Freeway.

A semi truck crashed with another car on the northbound Southwest Freeway (U.S. 59) near the South Freeway (Texas 288) on Friday, May 11, 2012 in Houston, TX overturning and spilling a load of flour and injuring the driver of the car.

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HOUSTON – An 18 wheeler accident occurred on Wednesday, May 9, when a semi truck carrying an unsecured load overturned on the East Loop in Houston, Texas.

Photo shows overturned big rig in Houston truck accident on East Loop on May 9, 2012

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MADISONVILLE, Texas — Twelve students traveling to Odessa on an Ector County Independent School District bus were injured when a single fire engine crashed into them after police directed the bus to change lanes due to a large grass fire in the area.

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