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FORNEY, TX – A semi truck blew out a tire and caught fire on a bridge on U.S. Highway 80 over the Trinity River near Farm-to-Market 460 on August 2 in Forney, TX. Forney is located in Kaufman County, Texas in the north-central part of the state about 21 miles east of Dallas.

A tractor trailer overturned and caught fire on the Trinity River bridge on U.S. Highway 80 in Forney, TX on August 2, 2013. Photo credit: KTVT/KTXA

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LAFAYETTE, IN – A semi truck driver from Joshua, Texas rolled his big rig while averting a collision on Interstate 65 in Lafayette, IN. The city of Lafayette is located in Tippecanoe County in the northwestern part of the state about 60 miles northwest of Indianapolis.

A semi truck rolled over onto its side while trying to avoid a crash in slow traffic on the northbound I-65 near Indiana Highway 26 in Lafayette, IN on August 7, 2013.

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GRAND PRAIRIE, TX – On August 3, 2013 in Grand Prairie, TX a loaded semi truck veered off I-30 and crashed through a guard rail onto State Highway 161 below bursting into flames, killing the truck driver. Grand Prairie is located in Tarrant, Ellis and Dallas counties in north-central Texas about 13 miles east of Dallas.

Photo shows charred remains of a semi truck consumed by fire and where a trucker was killed after going off a stacked freeway interchange and crashed onto the President George Bush Turnpike below in Grand Prairie, TX on August 3, 2013.

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IRVING, Texas — One of the worst bus accidents in the history of the United States just occurred in Irving Texas this morning where officials report that 41 people were injured and two were killed when a private charter bus, owned by Cardinal Coach Lines of Mansfield, overturned. Witnesses reported that bodies were stacked upon each other, people were moaning and crying in pain. There were people in shock, many with broken bones and serious injuries and several dead who were crushed under the bus. Passenger Dan Risik told NBC 5 that the charter bus was headed to Choctaw Casino Resort in Durant, Okla.

At least two people were killed when a tour bus crashed, crushing two of the passengers to death, in Irving, TX on the George Bush Turnpike (Highway 161) near a toll plaza on April 11, 2013.

MEXIA, Texas — According to a Department of Public Safety trooper, a gravel truck driver traveling east on Highway 84 was killed on Thursday morning, Feb. 28, after his 18-wheeler veered off the highway and struck a tree on the shoulder of the road just west of Mexia. The city of Mexia is located about 86 miles southeast of Dallas.

A semi truck driver was killed when his gravel truck went off the road and struck a tree on eastbound U.S. Highway 84 in Mejia, TX on February 28, 2013.

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GRAPEVINE, Texas — Police told the media that Dallas Cowboys nose tackle, Jay Ratliff, was arrested last week on suspicion of driving while intoxicated after the pickup he was driving was involved in a semi truck accident on Texas 114 in Grapevine.

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DALLAS, TX — A Dallas semi truck driver is lucky to be alive today after being rescued by a good samaritan who saw the trucker trapped in his burning cab after it overturned on the I-35 in Dallas, Texas.

A good samaritan pulled trucker, Elias Uribe, from a burning cab on January 9, 2013 when his semi truck crashed on the I-30 in Dallas, TX and caught fire.

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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — According to Alabama State Troopers, a 58-year-old Dallas, Texas semi truck driver, identified as Ramon Reyes, crashed into the interstate sign that indicates the 71A (Moundville) and 71B (Tuscaloosa) exits, knocking the sign to the ground and blocking all three lanes of southbound traffic.

A semi truck crashed into an overhead sign blocking all westbound traffic on the I-20 and I-59 just near the McFarlane exit in Tuscaloosa, AL on Jan 5, 2013. Photo : Chad Burnette/Fox 6 WBRC

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CANTON, Texas — The Department of Public Safety reported on Tuesday, Nov. 6, that a semi truck driver died after his 18 wheeler slammed into the Canton City Office Complex. The city of Canton is about 58 miles southeast of Dallas.

A semi truck pulling a rock hauler crashed into a government building in Canton, TX killing the driver and starting a blaze on November 6, 2012.

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SHERMAN, TX — A Southern Energy tanker truck, carrying approximately 8,000 gallons of a potentially dangerous liquid of petroleum distillate, flipped onto its side in Sherman Texas.

A Sherman Energy tanker truck hauling flammable liquid overturned on the FM 1417 spur when it rolled into a ditch as it was backing out of its driveway in Sherman, TX on October 9, 2012.

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