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Covers trucking accidents and trucking accident legal news, cases, and issues with a focus on South Carolina Law.
By Michael Jeffcoat, Esq.

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Last Entry: April 20, 2010 at 10:27:14

Fatal Tractor Trailer Crash in Spartanburg County, South Carolina

Posted on April 20, 2010
Thirty-seven-year-old Jessica Lyn Wright was killed Monday when her 2009 Ford car was involved in a collision with a tractor trailer and a South Carolina Department of Transportation dump truck. The accident happened on the southbound side of Interstate 85, between the Brockman-McClimon Road and Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport exits, near Greer, South Carolina...

Fatal Tractor Trailer Crash in Spartanburg County, South Carolina

Lexington County Pick-up Truck Accident Claims One Life

Posted on April 19, 2010
At approximately 3:40 AM on Sunday, April 18, a pick-up truck passenger was ejected from the vehicle and died at the scene, along Interstate 77 in Lexington County, South Carolina. Evidence at the scene indicates that the truck driver was traveling at a high rate of speed...

Lexington County Pick-up Truck Accident Claims One Life

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Hit and Run Trucker Sought by South Carolina Highway Patrol

Posted on April 13, 2010
South Carolina Highway Patrol troopers are searching for a truck driver who hit another driver on I-77 near Rock Hill. The tractor trailer hit a 63-year-old woman's car on Friday morning at about 6:30 AM, pushing her through the cable barriers and across the interstate, where she collided with another 18 wheeler...

Hit and Run Trucker Sought by South Carolina Highway Patrol

Wear Your Seatbelt - A Reminder

Posted on April 12, 2010
This morning, I saw a stirring video which highlights the importance of wearing your seatbelt. Watch it here.

Wear Your Seatbelt - A Reminder

Posted on April 12, 2010
This morning, I saw a stirring video which highlights the importance of wearing your seatbelt. Watch it here.

Harry Reid's Wife and Daughter Hit by a Tractor Trailer

Posted on March 12, 2010
Senator Harry Reid's wife and daugher were involved in a four-vehicle wreck yesterday, leaving 69-year-old Landra Reid with a broken neck, a broken back, and a broken nose. The couple's 48-year-old daugher, Lana Reid Barringer, suffered a neck injury and facial lacerations, after a tractor trailer rear-ended their car...

Harry Reid's Wife and Daughter Hit by a Tractor Trailer

Tractor-Trailer Crash on I-95 Causes Two Deaths

Posted on January 13, 2010
Be alert and aware when driving. Unfortunately, this warning came too late for two people in Dunn, North Carolina. On January 12, 2010, Bert Baytops of Newark, New Jersey and a female companion were fatally injured on Interstate 95 when apparently the driver fell asleep at the wheel...

Tractor-Trailer Crash on I-95 Causes Two Deaths

Road Rage and Tractor Trailers are a Volatile Mix - Just Ask Carlos Perez

Posted on September 03, 2009
Imagine, one minute driving along the freeway without a care in the world, and the next minute looking in your rear view mirror and seeing nothing but the grill of a semi truck. That?s exactly what happened to Carlos Perez of Geneva, New York, on August 21, 2009...

Road Rage and Tractor Trailers are a Volatile Mix - Just Ask Carlos Perez

* WARNING: THIS IS A VERY GRAPHIC VIDEO * Texting While Driving PSA

Posted on August 29, 2009
Click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGE8LzRaySk Proceed with caution here, but this video captures the truly awful consequences that arise when drivers do not look out for the other guy and operate their vehicles safely. In the aftermath of major collisions, we help people begin to pick up the pieces and put their lives back together...

* WARNING: THIS IS A VERY GRAPHIC VIDEO * Texting While Driving PSA

Michigan Big Rig Wreck Causes Overpass to Melt

Posted on July 29, 2009
If anyone needs a reminder about just how dangerous truck accidents can be to the public, read this. On July 15, 2009 in Hazel Park, Michigan, a tractor-trailer exploded under an overpass causing the overpass itself to literally melt and disintegrate...

Michigan Big Rig Wreck Causes Overpass to Melt

The Surface Transportation Authorization Act of 2009

Posted on June 25, 2009
On June 24, 2009 the committee that controls the highway and trucking issues in the U.S. House of Representatives (the House Transportation and Infrastructure?s Subcommittee on Highways and Transit) will be reviewing the language contained in the Surface Transportation Act of 2009...

The Surface Transportation Authorization Act of 2009

Driver Falls Asleep at the Wheel and Ends up Under a Tractor-Trailer

Posted on June 22, 2009
On June 2, 2009, Christine Osterholtz of Lakeland, Florida was heading eastbound on Interstate 4 when she fell asleep. She was traveling in the center lane and her vehicle drifted into the far right lane into the pathway of a tractor trailer being driven by Michael Dacunto of Spring Hill...

Driver Falls Asleep at the Wheel and Ends up Under a Tractor-Trailer

Tractor Trailer versus Ford Pick-Up in Greenville, South Carolina

Posted on June 04, 2009
According to reports, on June 3, 2009, four construction workers were on the way to their homes in Greenville, South Carolina, when the Ford pick-up they were in veered into oncoming traffic hitting the cab of tractor trailer head on. The collision caused a third vehicle to crash into the back of the big rig which was transporting a backhoe on a lowboy trailer...

Tractor Trailer versus Ford Pick-Up in Greenville, South Carolina

Two Tractor Trailers Collide on 1-20

Posted on May 29, 2009
On May 20, 2009, James Bush of Smyrna, Georgia lost his life when the big rig he was driving side-swiped another 18 wheeler near mile marker 158 in Interstate 20. Mr. Bush worked for the Pepsi Cola Company and was driving westbound on I-20 when he came upon Kenneth Woodfork of Doraville, Georgia, whose truck had broken down in the emergency lane...

Two Tractor Trailers Collide on 1-20

Explosion at Orangeburg, South Carolina Trucking Company Takes the Lives of Two Employees

Posted on April 28, 2009
Two employees were killed and a third injured in an April 22 fueling mishap at Rutland Timber and Trucking, a company near Orangeburg, South Carolina. The employees were using a homemade fuel pump powered by the truck?s battery to move diesel fuel from a storage tank to a truck - when a massive explosion was touched off...

Dump Truck Tips Over Onto Honda Civic in Raleigh, North Carolina

Posted on April 28, 2009
Two Holly Spring citizens barely escaped death when a dump truck driver lost control and overturned onto their Honda Civic. Edmund Theodore Jackson, a resident of New Haven, Connecticut, was driving his dump trunk down Davis Road near Farm Pond Road when he lost control and veered off onto the right shoulder...

Truck Plummets from Interstate 77 Overpass onto Wilson Boulevard in Columbia, South Carolina

Posted on April 28, 2009
A tractor trailer truck exploded into flames after it veered off an I-77 overpass onto Wilson Boulevard in Columbia, South Carolina. The truck overturned which caused about 75 gallons of diesel fuel to spill out over the engine and ignite. The truck driver escaped certain death when two Richland County deputies and a nearby motorist pulled him to safety...

Explosion at Orangeburg, South Carolina Trucking Company Takes the Lives of Two Employees

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