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NORTH PORT, FL – The Florida Highway Patrol said that two tractor trailers collided and one caught fire, forcing the closure of all northbound lanes of Interstate 75 south of the Toledo Blade Boulevard exit in North Port this morning.

The accident which occurred at about 11:15 a.m. near Mile Marker 174, completely closed the northbound traffic lanes of I-75 for three hours while emergency fire crews worked to extinguish the  blaze. ... Read More

LAKELAND FL -  A Lakeland Florida man was killed early this morning when his SUV collided with the rear end of a tractor-trailer at the intersection of North Florida Avenue and the North U.S. 98 Bypass.

Map showing location of semi truck crash with SUV where a man was killed early Wednesday morning, July 13, 2011 at the intersection of Florida Avenue and US 98 Bypass in Lakeland, FL.

The accident occurred at about 2:30 a.m. According to the Lakeland Police Department, the victim was driving north on North Florida Avenue at a high rate of speed when his 2002 Toyota 4 Runner crashed into the semi truck. ... 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

PENBROKE PINES, FL – Two people were killed in a fatal head on collision on the I-75 in Pembroke Pines, Florida on Thursday morning.

A red or maroon colored Chevy pick up truck traveling southbound in the northbound lanes of the highway slammed head on into a white Cadillac just north of the Sheridan Street exit. CBS-4

The crash happened in the northbound lanes near the Sheridan Street exit around 1:30 a.m. Thursday morning and temporarily blocked all northbound lanes at a section of Interstate 75, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. ... Read More

AMARILLO, TX – A Toyota Camry with two women inside, hit a Penske tractor trailer truck after running a red light in downtown Amarillo, according to witnesses, the local police said. The accident occurred on Saturday afternoon, June 18, at about 1:30 p.m. at 10th and Taylor Streets.

Rescue workers at the scene of the accident at 10th Ave and Taylor Street in Amarillo, TX on Saturday, June 18, 2011. Photo credit: Amarillo Globe-News

Witnesses told the Amarillo police that the gray Toyota Camry was traveling westbound on 10th when it ran a red light, hitting the Penske moving truck. ... 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

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

CIRCUIT COURT OF CRAWFORD COUNTY, ARKANSAS – Arkansas truck accident lawyers, Gordon, Elias & Seely, LLP, are representing a client who was involved in a tractor trailer truck accident operated by Defendant, James C. Fore, III, who was employed by Miller Truck Lines, L.L.C at the time of the subject incident.

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ORLANDO, FL – Five people were hurt Monday, February 14, in an early morning truck accident at a busy intersection in Orange County, Florida. The two vehicle crash involved a U.S. Post Office tractor trailer and a Disney tour bus and occurred on Boggy Creek Road in the Orlando metro region, just south of the Orlando International Airport. The accident area is in central Florida, about 100 miles from Tampa.

Early Monday morning 52 year old Wayne Earle of Palm Bay, FL was driving a semi trailer truck south on Boggy Creek Road. The driver was carrying a cargo for the U.S. Post Office at the time of the truck accident. ... Read More

DELRAY BEACH, FL – A single vehicle truck accident cut off the electricity Monday, January 24, for a neighborhood in Palm Beach County in Delray Beach. Delray Beach is about 8 milles from Boca Raton Florida. Multiple utility poles were snapped and lines pulled down in the crash which occurred at an intersection in the city of Delray Beach. The truck accident area is on the far southeast coast of Florida, about 52 miles north of Miami, FL and about 360 miles south of St. Mary’s, Georgia.

On Monday morning an unidentified semi driver was traveling through Palm Beach County, near the southeast coast of the Atlantic Ocean. The tractor trailer was fitted with a hopper and the semi was described as a commercial dump truck. It is not known where the 18 wheeler was headed when the truck accident occurred or if it was carrying any cargo.

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