Archive for May, 2013
MOUNT VERNON, WA – A bridge spanning the Skagit River collapsed sending motorists into the water after a box truck smacked into one of its supports on May 23, 2013.
HOUSTON, TX – A semi truck driver swerved his 18-wheeler on May 22nd to avoid hitting a pedestrian who was walking on the freeway in Houston, TX and then crashed into the concrete median barrier.
KENEDY, TX – Four men were killed in a fatal crash with an 18 wheeler in Kenedy, TX when the Honda they were traveling in crashed into the rear of the big rig when it stopped to make a left turn. The city of Kenedy is located in Karnes County, TX in the southern part of the state about 60 miles southeast of San Antonio.
DIBOLL, TX – Two women were fatally injured in a semi truck accident involving three vehicles in Diboll, TX on Monday May 13, 2013. The city of Diboll is located in Angelina County, TX in the eastern part of the state, about 11.3 miles southwest of Lufkin and about 32.5 miles southwest of Nacodoches.
PINE BLUFF, AR — A log truck truck driver traveling on the Interstate 530 near Pine was killed when he lost control of his truck and overturned. The victim was identified as 55-year old Michael White of Magnolia, approximately 110 miles southwest of Pine Bluff.
CECIL, GA — One truck driver was killed and another hospitalized after two semi trucks collided on a highway in Cecil, Georgia about 17 miles north of Valdosta.
SILOAM SPRINGS, Okla. — The City of Siloam Springs reported that two people were taken to the hospital with injuries after a flatbed semi truck reared-ended the back of a cement truck on a highway near the Oklahoma-Arkansas border.
MONROE, N.C. — A semi truck driver, who stopped his 18-wheeler on the tracks trying to make a light, has been charged with failure to stop at a railroad crossing in the Monroe, North Carolina train crash that happened on Tuesday, April 30.
MCKINNEY, Texas — According to McKinney police, a tractor trailer overturned on the southbound lanes of U.S. Highway 75 on Thursday morning, April 25, during a semi truck accident in McKinney Texas.