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EL PASO, TX -  A truck and motorcycle collided in Northeast El Paso on Thursday night, May 12, near the intersection of Railroad and Transmountain.

Ryan Arbogast, 21, lost control of his 2008 Honda motorcycle in the 10000 block of Railroad Drive about 7 p.m. Thursday, police said. ... Read More

GERVAIS, OR. — A man from Texas was struck by an 18 wheeler truck while he was walking along Highway 99E in a rural farming area south of Portland, Ore. The victim was identified as Thomas Jay Franklin, 21, of Austin, Texas authorities said.

The incident occurred on Wednesday, May 2, at about 5:20 p.m. between the towns of Gervais and Brooks. ... Read More

HOUSTON, TX – An 18 wheeler crashed into a wrecker on Highway 90 in East Harris County sending three people to the hospital.

Map of 18 wheeler accident with 2 wreckers on Highway 90 in East Harris County

The truck accident occurred on Saturday, May 21, around 2:30 a.m where two wreckers were stopped behind a Chevy with a flat tire on Highway 90 near Miller Road. ... Read More

HOUSTON, TX – Officers from the Houston Police Department arrested a local tanker truck driver in early May 2011 who has been accused of illegally dumping hundreds of thousands of gallons of toxic waste into ditches, storm drains, and retention ponds in northwest Houston and adjacent parts of Harris and Waller Counties.

The truck driver, identified as Lonnie Earl Perkins, was followed by police to a deserted lane just off N. Houston-Rosslyn Road where he allegedly emptied the truck’s contents into a drainage ditch. ... Read More

VICTORIA, TX – A Valley Transit Greyhound bus traveling from Houston to McAllen late Wednesday, May 11, was sideswiped by a pick-up truck, causing the bus to swerve into a utility pole. The accident happened just south of Victoria, Texas.

Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper, Gerald Bryant, said that a Vinton man driving a truck was pulling onto U.S. 77 from a side street when it ran into the Greyhound bus, causing it to veer into the utility pole. ... Read More

EL PASO, TX – At approximately 7 a. m. on Thursday, April 21, a cement truck driver traveling westbound on the Interstate 10 near the Spaghetti Bowl lost control causing the truck to overturn and roll on its side. El paso is located about 5 hours from Midland and Odessa Texas.

Fire crews worked the scene of a truck accident involving an overturned cement truck along I-10 West at Chelsea Thursday.(Rudy Gutierrez/El Paso Times)

The truck accident occurred between Paisano before the Raynolds exit ramp when it crashed into a median, overturning and spilling debris and oil onto the highway. backing up traffic east and west for miles. ... Read More

CLEBURNE, TX – One person was killed Friday, February 18, in a fiery truck accident on a highway in Johnson County, Texas. The deadly head-on collision was near the city of Cleburne on U.S. Highway 67. The truck accident occurred in the southern edge of the Fort Worth metro region, in the northeast section of the state, about 52 miles southwest of Plano, about 47 miles west of Mesquite and about 48 miles southwest of Richardson, Texas.

On Friday morning an unidentified man was driving a semi truck through northeast Texas. At the time of the truck accident the driver was pulling a pneumatic trailer section. The contents of the trailer and the driver’s destination have not been released. ... Read More

HOUSTON, TX – A fatal accident has taken the life of a female driver when her Toyota sport utility vehicle crashed into a Chevrolet pickup truck on the Northwest Freeway near the West Road exit.

The accident occurred on April 11 at around 2:30 a.m. The female driver of the Toyota was pronounced dead at the accident site while the two males inside the truck were trapped as a result of the accident. ... Read More

CLEBURNE, TX – One person was killed Friday in a fiery truck accident on a highway in Johnson County, Texas. The deadly head-on collision was near the city of Cleburne on U.S. Highway 67. The truck accident occurred in the southern edge of the Fort Worth metro region, in the northeast section of the state, about 136 miles south of Ardmore, Oklahoma and about 242 miles west of Shreveport, Louisiana.

On Friday morning an unidentified man was driving a semi trailer truck through northeast Texas. At the time of the truck accident the driver was pulling a pneumatic trailer section. The contents of the trailer and the driver’s destination have not been released. ... Read More

BEAUMONT, TX – A single vehicle truck accident closed down part of a major highway Sunday, January 30, in Jefferson County, Texas. The tractor trailer crashed and burst into flames on Interstate 10 where the highway passes through downtown Beaumont, TX. The truck accident occurred on the southeast side of the state near the border with Louisiana.

On Sunday morning an unidentified truck driver in a 2002 semi trailer truck was driving through southeast Texas. The trailer section was carrying a load of carpeting at the time of the truck accident, but it is not known where the driver was headed. ... Read More