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TURLOCK, CA – Three semi trailers were involved in a fiery truck accident late Tuesday night, July 6, in Stanislaus County, California. The chain reaction collision occurred just before midnight on the southbound lanes of Highway 99 near the city of Turlock, CA. The accident area is in the north section of the state, about 105 miles west of San Francisco, CA and about 296 miles north of Los Angeles, CA.

Local firefighters and emergency personnel responded to the scene of the fiery truck accident.

Late Tuesday night, shortly before midnight, 41 year old Marcus Trask of Selma, CA was driving a 2004 Sterling semi trailer truck south on Highway 99 and had pulled over onto the west shoulder of the highway just south of Lander Avenue. It is not known why the truck driver had stopped on the shoulder. ... Read More

YUBA CITY, CA – A semi tanker truck crashed Sunday afternoon, May 2, 2010, on a California highway, spilling aqueous ammonia on the roadway and closing down travel lanes for over seven hours. The truck accident occurred on California Highway 99, near Yuba City in Sutter County, CA. The accident area is north of the Sacramento metro region in the central-north section of the state, about 125 miles northeast of San Francisco and 120 miles south of Redding, CA.

California Highway Patrol responded to the scene of the truck accident and cordoned off the area around the overturned 18 wheeler and the spilled hazardous material on the highway.

At about 3:00 p.m. Sunday afternoon 62 year old truck driver Richard Dean Spence of Wheatland, CA was northbound on Highway 99 in a double tractor trailer passing through Sutter County south of Yuba City. The truck driver was hauling a load of toxic aqueous ammonia in the tanker truck to be delivered at a destination in the Pleasant Grove area. As the driver reached the intersection of Hwy 99 and Nicolaus Avenue he reportedly lost control of the semi tanker truck. ... Read More

GONZALES, CA – A tanker truck crashed and rolled over in California Thursday causing a massive fuel spill. The truck accident happened on Highway 101 in Gonzales in Monterey County. The accident area is in the southwest section of the state near the Pacific Ocean, 287 miles northwest of Los Angeles, CA and 123 miles south of San Francisco, CA.

The driver went off the road and crashed into a highway guardrail and rolled over, with the tanker truck ending upside down on its roof. The truck driver was trapped in the cab of his tanker truck

At around 1:30 a.m. Thursday morning an unidentified truck driver, in his 50s, from Salinas, CA was driving south on Highway 101. He was driving a double tanker truck loaded with 7500 gallons of diesel fuel. ... Read More

ONTARIO, CA – Four people died Saturday in a fiery multi-vehicle chain reaction truck accident. The accident occurred on Freeway 15 near Ontario, California about 37 miles west of Los Angeles. The accident area is in the southwest section of the state, 114 miles north of San Diego, CA and 235 miles southwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.

A car and a semi-truck are fully engulfed in flames, southbound on I-15 in Ontario, CA

The chain accident began at about 12:20 p.m. Saturday afternoon and would end up involving three tractor trailer trucks, a U Haul truck, and two passenger cars. The truck accident happened in the southbound lanes of Freeway 15, south of Jurupa Avenue. The deadliest part of the multi truck collision was at the end, involving the last few vehicles in the chain reaction, two 18 wheelers with a passenger car in between. ... Read More