Truck Accident Lawyer News

Archive for 2011

HUNTINGTON, OR: – A fatal truck accident Friday, February 18, on an interstate in Baker County, Oregon killed one person and injured four others. The deadly crash started when a passenger car went out of control and set off a multi vehicle collision in the westbound lanes of Interstate 84 just west of the city of Huntington, OR. The truck accident area is in far eastern part of the state, about 84 miles northwest of Boise, Idaho and about 170 miles southeast of Walla Walla, Washington.

Early Friday morning 41 year old Rebecca Clark of La Fayette, Georgia was driving a 2006 Freightliner semi truck through eastern Oregon. The trailer section of the semi tractor was filled with a variety of household products. There was also a passenger riding in the tractor trailer at the time of the truck accident, an unidentified 40 year old male. The tractor trailer is reportedly registered to Cedar Creek Trucking based in Georgia. ... 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

WILLIAMSBURG, KY – A semi driver died Thursday morning, February 17, after being involved in a truck accident on a highway in Whitley County, Kentucky. The tractor trailer was traveling on Interstate 75 near the city of Williamsburg when the driver went off the road and crashed. The truck accident area is the far south part of Kentucky, about 70 miles north of Knoxville, Tennessee and about 194 miles east of Abingdon, Virginia.

Early Thursday morning 56 year old David A. McHenry of Massillon, Ohio was driving a 2009 Volvo semi trailer truck through south Kentucky. The tractor trailer was carrying a cargo of industrial sized cans of pizza sauce at the time of the truck accident. The semi truck is owned by Lorimar Materials Management based out of Massillon, OH. ... Read More

TOOELE COUNTY, UT – A truck accident Wednesday afternoon Feb 16, trapped the semi driver in his cab section which was partially submerged in a lake in Tooele County, Utah. High winds likely caused the rollover semi crash which occurred on Interstate 80 close to the juncture with Utah State Road 196. The crash happened near the city of Grantsville on the southwest edge of the Salt Lake City metro region. The truck accident area is in the north central part of Utah, about 78 miles east of West Wendover, Nevada and about 166 miles southwest of Evanston, Wyoming.

Photo by Chris Detrick | The Salt Lake Tribune A wrecked semi truck on Interstate 80 eastbound Wednesday February 16, 2011. The semi rolled over into three or four feet of water, according to the Utah Highway Patrol. It rolled over about 12:04 p.m. near mile marker 79 in Tooele County, near State Road 196.

On Wednesday an unidentified truck driver from Salt Lake City was driving a semi trailer through Tooele County, Utah. At the time of the accident the trailer section of the semi was empty and it is thought that the driver may have just delivered his cargo. ... Read More

MOBILE, AL – Deonte “BJ” Johnson’s family and high school friends are still in mourning over his death that occurred just after 4:00 Saturday morning, March 26, when his SUV struck a telephone pole on Cottage Hill Road.

Deonte “BJ” Johnson was a well loved 17-year-old Davidson High School senior and football player, from Mobile Alabama. ... 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

MOBILE, AL – A bus accident occurred in Mobile Alabama on Friday, April 8, when a tour bus carrying Mississippi students collided with a mini van.

The students were passing through Mobile on their way to Atlanta when the accident happened on I-10. ... 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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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