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ALBANY, GA – A trucker blacked out and went airborne after crashing through a guard rail on the Liberty Expressway in Albany, GA on July 12, 2013. Albany is located in Dougherty County, Georgia in the southwestern part of the state about 87 miles southeast of Columbus, GA.

A semi truck crashed through a guard rail on the Liberty Expressway, went airborne and landed on the roadway below in Albany, GA on July 12, 2013.

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CECIL, GA — One truck driver was killed and another hospitalized after two semi trucks collided on a highway in Cecil, Georgia about 17 miles north of Valdosta.

Photo shows damage to tractor trailer after to semi trucks collided on May 8, 2013 in Cecil, Georgia. Photo Credit: Valdosta Daily Times

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MONTROSE, Ga. — Rescue crews and firemen arrived at the scene of a fiery multi-vehicle pileup that involved more than two dozen vehicles, semi trucks and pickup trucks that resulted in a fiery pileup on the foggy Interstate 16 near Montrose, Georgia on Wednesday morning, Feb. 6, killing at least four people and leaving at least nine others injured.

Several tractor trailers were involved in a fatal chain reaction accident that left 4 people dead on I-16 near Montrose, GA on February 6, 2013. Photo credit: The Weather Channel

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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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SAVANNAH, GA – The Georgia Department of Public Safety recently issued an order that semi truck safety inspections would no longer be done by local police departments and that state inspectors would be taking over the job.

Commercial vehicle safety inspection in Georgia to enforce violations for bald tires, bad brakes, bad lights and other violations. Photo credit: WTOC, Savannah, GA

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEBRASKA – Gordon, Elias & Seely, LLP, renowned truck accident lawyers, are representing a husband and wife who were struck by an 18 wheeler Peterbuilt truck by a big rig driver employed by GRAND ISLE EXPRESS at the time of the subject incident.

This incident occurred on or about January 20, 2010, in the Petro truck parking lot located at the York interchange of Interstate Highway 80, York County, Nebraska. ... Read More

ATLANTA, GA – Last Tuesday Bolton Rd. in Atlanta GA, was shut down after a truck driver who was driving a Community Waste Services of Georgia garbage truck hit a railroad overpass in Northwest Atlanta shortly after 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday morning.

Atlanta fire officials say two people were injured when a truck crashed into a railway bridge in northwest Atlanta. It happened at Bolton Road and Marietta Road just after 9 a.m., Tuesday, June 28. (Photo: Atlanta Fire Rescue Department)

Hours later a 20-foot stretch of concrete and metal came crashing down from the railroad overpass falling onto the road below it. Late Tuesday, officials said Bolton Road just west of Marietta Road would be closed at least 48 hours to make sure the area under the bridge is safe for traffic. ... Read More

ATLANTA, GA – The Atlanta Police Department said that a truck accident occurred in the 3100 block of Northside Drive NW when a man attempted to drive his truck around a curb, hitting a power pole and ending up in a ditch.

Georgia Power crews were on the scene working to repair the power pole after the incident. ... Read More

MACON, GA – About a hundred residential customers lost power last Sunday night, October 24, when a semi trailer truck got tangled in and pulled down electrical power lines in Bibb County, Georgia. The single vehicle truck accident occurred near the intersection of Britt Drive and Napier Avenue in the city of Macon, GA. The accident area is in the center part of Georgia, about 101 miles northeast of Phenix City, Alabama and about 136 miles southwest of North Augusta, South Carolina.

On Sunday evening, Oct. 24, an unidentified person was driving a semi tractor trailer truck through the city of Macon in Bibb County, GA. The trailer section of the semi had the logo for Hart Transportation, Inc. a trucking company based out of Jacksonville, Florida. At this time it is not known where the driver was headed or the cargo in the trailer. ... Read More

ALBANY, GA – A semi trailer truck rolled over Sunday evening, Aug 1, on a road near the Southwest Georgia Regional Airport in Dougherty County, GA. The truck driver was not seriously injured in the single vehicle truck accident that occurred when a passenger car crossed into the path of the 18 wheeler on Leary Road in the city of Albany. The accident area is in the southwest corner of the state about 174 miles southeast of Montgomery, Alabama and about 100 miles north of Tallahassee, Florida.

The semi truck jack knifed and then rolled over onto the passenger side of the tractor trailer.

At around 6:00 p.m. Sunday evening truck driver Donta Turnbull was driving a semi tractor trailer west on Leary Road in Dougherty County in an area just south of the SW Georgia Regional Airport in Albany, GA. Mr. Turnbull was carrying a cargo of Procter & Gamble paper products. Proctor & Gamble is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. The destination of the semi trailer truck is not known. ... Read More