Truck Accident Lawyer News

Archive for 2011

HUNTSVILLE, TX — A Houston truck driver was charged with third-degree felony DWI after  his 2002 Chevrolet Silverado rolled over crashing into a power pole on I-45.

The driver, identified as 63-year-old Miguel Alvarez from Houston, was traveling south in the 600 block of Interstate 45 around 5:30 p.m. Monday, July 11, when his 2002 Chevrolet Silverado went airborne, crashing into a power pole owned by Entergy. ... Read More

SAN ANTONIO, TX – Police report that a fiery crash involving a woman and an 18 wheeler resulted in the death of the woman when the car she was driving swerved into the big rig pinning her beneath the truck.

Map showing location of fiery 18 wheeler crash where one person was killed on Friday, July 15, 2011 in San Antonio, TX on the northbound I-35 near AT&T Center Parkway.

The accident which occurred Friday night, July 15, caused the vehicle and truck to burst into flames which halted traffic on the Interstate for 35 hours. ... Read More

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

SNOQUALMIE, WA – An 18 wheeler accident occurred on late Wednesday, July 7, when a semi truck slammed into a passenger car on State Route 18 south of here which claimed the lives of two people. Snoqualmie is located about 50 miles south of Everett, Washington.

Washington State Patrol Trooper Julie Startup said  the driver of the car was making a U-turn on the highway near Raging River and the semi was unable to stop in time. Below is a map of the location. ... Read More

RADNOR, OH – A driver died Thursday, June 30, after a two-vehicle crash involving a cement-mixing truck.

A SUV was traveling northbound on state Route 203 when the driver went left of center and hit a southbound cement-mixing truck, troopers said. ... Read More

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

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

DENISON, TX – James Hedgcoke, 81, of Durant Oklahoma was killed Tuesday afternoon just after 2:30 p.m. when his pickup swerved into an 18 wheeler truck in the northbound lanes of Highway 75 near the Texas Travel Information Center in Denison. Hedgcoke was pronounced dead on the scene.

PHOTO CREDIT: KTEN.com

According to the Denison Police, Hedgcoke was traveling southbound on U.S. 75 when for an unknown reason he cut across the median into the northbound lanes and hit a moving  company semi truck, causing the tractor trailer to flip over on its side. The semi completely crushed Hedgcoke’s car. The driver of the semi was not injured. ... Read More