Archive for July, 2012

PHOENIX, Ariz. — A semi truck traveling westbound on I-10 near Tonopah, AZ  on Sunday, July 29, crossed a 100-foot median and traveled 300 feet before smashing head-on into an eastbound van that was carrying 7 people.

Photo shows charred remains of a fiery head-on collision between a semi truck and van on I-10 about 58 miles west of Phoenix, AZ on July 29, 2012. The crash killed 7 people and injured 2.

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CHARLOTTE, NC — An accident involving a vehicle and tractor trailer shut down the southbound lanes of Interstate 85 on Wednesday morning, July 18, after a driver of a truck attempted to take the exit off of the interstate, but swerved back into traffic and cut off the tractor trailer.

A passenger vehicle was completely demolished in a semi truck accident on I-85 near the I-77 interchange in Charlotte on July 18, 2012.

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LIMON, CO – Two Texas women were killed by a semi truck driven by a Louisiana teenager while they were changing a tire on I-70 in Limon, CO on July 15, 2012.

A Volvo semi tractor pulling a horse trailer sits parked in front of a weigh station sign near mile marker 363 on I-70 about .4 of a mile down the road from a fatal accident where two Texas women were killed while changing a tire in Limon, CO on July 15, 2012.

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NEW WAVERLY, TX – A semi truck driver was killed in a crash with another tractor trailer in New Waverly, TX on July 6, 2012. Shortly after the accident, a prison bus slammed head-on into one of the wreckers that was working at the scene of the original accident, seriously injuring two wrecker drivers and sending six inmates and three guards to the hospital for treatment.

A semi truck driver was killed when his big rig rear ended another tractor trailer loaded with steel pipe on I-45 in New Waverly, TX on July 6, 2012.

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CAMPBELLTON, Texas — A priest who was traveling south on Interstate 37 near Campbellton, Texas, was killed on Monday, July 9, when his vehicle struck an overturned semi truck that had swerved off the highway.

A priest from Corpus Christi, TX was killed in a semi truck accident on the southbound I-37 in Campbellton, TX on July 9, 2012.

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EL PASO, Texas — A big rig truck driver, who was unaware that he ran over and killed a man at an east El Paso intersection Thursday morning July 5, has been found.

One man lies dead after a bizarre hit and run accident by a tractor trailer in El Paso, TX on July 5, 2012. The deceased man was involved in a traffic accident and got into a scuffle with the other driver when he accidentally got run over by a semi truck.

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ARLINGTON, Tx. — A truck driver was seriously injured and hospitalized after an
Amtrak Texas Eagle train collided with the truck’s cab on Friday, June 29, at a private crossing in west Arlington, Texas.

Rescue crews carry a passenger from the Texas Eagle after a collision between the train and a tractor trailer on June 29, 2012 in west Arlington, Texas. Photo: Star-Telegram/Joyce Marshall

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