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Covers trucking accident case law , news and events dealing with trucking accident law. Written by injury lawyer Jeff Lowe.
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Sick Truckers Cause Deadly Crashes

Posted on July 23, 2008
When a driver behind the wheel of an 80,000-pound truck blacks out, goes into a diabetic altered state of consciousness, suffers a seizure or experiences a heart attack, the consequences are deadly. Unfortunately, far too many sick bus and truck drivers are on the road every day, placing innocent motorists in harm?s way...

Semi Barrels into Cars on St. Louis missouri Highway

Posted on July 16, 2008
The scene of a deadly tractor trailer crash on a major St. Louis highway was a motorist?s nightmare. A tractor-trailer that didn?t slow down for a line of cars stopped in highway traffic mowed down everything ? and everyone - unlucky to be trapped in the semi?s path...

Parents Demonstrate at Fatal Truck Crash Site

Posted on July 09, 2008
On July 9, 2007, Julieanne Kriens was on her way to an internship interview at Rockford College. The 20-year-old from Antioch, Ill. was driving on Route 173, a two-lane highway. Trucks in front of her were stopped in order to make a left-hand turn. Kriens also stopped...

Trucking Firm Head Faces Charges

Posted on July 03, 2008
Last month, one person was killed and four others were injured when a dump truck crashed into a parked bus in Chinatown. Now, the president of the New Jersey business that owns the dump truck is facing criminal charges, the New York Times reports. In ?Charge Filed Against Chief of Truck Firm After Crash,? reporter Al Baker writes that 30-year-old Osleivy Gomez, the president of C...

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Hi-Tech Devices in Truck Crash Cases Mined for Information

Posted on June 25, 2008
Tractor-trailers are loaded with hi-tech devices. Computers, on-board data recorders, electronic logging devices and GPS systems can track speed, hard-braking and maintenance. As Lawyers Weekly USA reporter Sylvia Hsieh points out in, ?Tech devices leave trail of evidence in trucking litigation,? the information is a boon for lawyers who represent truck crash victims...

Rules for Semi Trucks Aim to Keep Motorists Safe

Posted on June 17, 2008
Large commercial trucks, also known as 18-wheelers, semis, and tractor-trailers, account for more than their share of serious injuries and traffic deaths on America's highways. According to the National Center for Statistics and Analysis , large trucks are responsible for 12 percent of all traffic fatalities, even though only 3 percent of all registered vehicles are trucks and trucks account for only 7 percent of vehicle miles traveled...

Trucker Sentenced to Prison for Falling Asleep, Killing 7 Kids

Posted on June 13, 2008
A truck driver who fell asleep behind the wheel of his semi and killed seven children has been sentenced to seven years in prison -- one year for each child, The Florida Times-Union reports in an article written by Paul Pinkham. In January 2006, Alvin Wilkerson was 25 miles into an 85-mile trip hauling bottled water for Crete Carrier Corp...

Trucks Yanked Off the Road after Surprise Inspections

Posted on June 12, 2008
Thirty-nine dangerous trucks were taken off the road last week after the Nebraska State Patrol conducted surprise inspections in Grand Island. Troopers pulled over commercial trucks at six sites on June 11. The aim was to inspect in-town trucks that rarely, if ever, go through weigh stations...

Trucker Charged with DUI

Posted on June 11, 2008
A trucker who crashed her semi and spilled aluminum onto an interstate in Nashville was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving. The accident occurred June 10 on eastbound Interstate 40. According to WSMV (Ch. 4), Nashville, the truck driver didn?t notice a curve in the highway...

Greyhound Bus Crashes and Overturns in Indiana

Posted on June 04, 2008
On Tuesday, a Greyhound bus carrying 42 people flipped onto its side and injured more than two dozen people, the Daily Herald reports. Darren P. Duke, 46, was driving the bus as the time of the accident. Police suspect the driver fell asleep. According to the news article, the bus drifted onto the gravel, fishtailed, then overcorrected...

Semi Strikes and Kills Illinois Worker

Posted on June 02, 2008
An East St. Louis, Ill. highway worker was killed Monday morning when a semi plowed through a construction site, Fox 2-St. Louis reports. The 39-year-old worker, Cedric Gasper, was sitting on the rear bumper of a white pickup truck when a semi barreled through several orange, construction zone barrels set up on Highway 15 and Green Mountain Road in Belleville...

Missouri Trucker Found Guilty of Manslaughter in Truck Accident

Posted on May 29, 2008
A truck driver who drifted across the center line and collided head on with a car was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter by a jury, the Rolla Daily News reports. On March 22, 2002 Patrick Wayne Zullig of Rolla, Mo. was driving his truck west on Missouri Route 72...

Illinois Trucker Dies in Crash

Posted on May 29, 2008
A trucker from Illinois died last week in a three-truck pileup on Indiana 49. The accident occurred on the morning of May 27. Mark Flock was behind the wheel of an empty tractor-trailer when he slammed into the back of semi hauling three steel coils. The force of the crash sent the semi with the steel coils over a concrete median and into a box truck, shearing the cabin of the box truck away from the trailer...

Trucking Company Involved in Accident Broke Safety Rules

Posted on May 26, 2008
When a dump truck crashed into a school bus earlier this month, 16-year-old Daniel Wood died. Ten students and the bus driver were also injured in the collision that occurred near Falmouth, Ky. Now it appears that XXL Trucking, the company that owned the dump truck, violated eight federal and state safety regulations...

Semi Trucks Raise Safety Concerns for St. Louis Motorists

Posted on May 22, 2008
Big rigs barreling down St. Louis area highways pose dangers to motorists who share the road with them. According to a recent investigative report on KMOV-4 St. Louis, inattention, bad brakes, poor maintenance and long driving hours are just a few of the many violations law enforcement officers uncovered in the metropolitan St...

Semi Truck Overturns--Trucker Killed

Posted on May 19, 2008
A truck driver was killed around midnight last night when his semi overturned, rolled down an embankment and caught fire, the Kansas City Star reports. The tractor trailer was headed southbound on Interstate 435 in Kansas City. After rolling down the embankment, the semi stopped near Raytown Road which remained closed to rush hour traffic this morning so that crews could inspect a nearby bridge for structural damage...

Trucker Swipes State Trooper

Posted on May 14, 2008
State Police are searching for a hit-and-run trucker who sideswiped a trooper on May 13, the Roanoke Times reports. Trooper Jeff Rasnick had pulled over a tractor-trailer for speeding. He was sitting in his unmarked car that was parked on the shoulder of Interstate 81 when another semi ran off the right side of the road, slammed into his door and kept on driving...

Driver Who Struck Pedestrian Receives Four-Year Sentence

Posted on May 12, 2008
In early May, a Missouri man who struck and killed a Branson County public works employee after he lost control of his car was sentenced to four years in prison, the Branson Daily News reports. According to the article written by reporter Mindy Honey, on Aug...

Truck Drivers Reckless Conduct Paved Way for Punitive Damages

Posted on May 05, 2008
A recent ruling by a Missouri federal judge makes clear that reckless truck drivers and the companies that hire them will face punitive damages when their conduct hurts and kills innocent motorists. Truck driver George Albright Jr. was an employee of a staffing company known as Trucker?s Plus...

Illinois Truck driver killed on I-70 in Chain Reaction Crash

Posted on May 04, 2008
An Illinois truck driver was killed on Interstate 70 when he was thrown from his cab during a chain reaction crash that shut down the Interstate. The series of crashes started on eastbound I-70 near Watkins on Thursday afternoon. The highway was eventually shut down in both directions because of the four separate sets of accidents...

Bill Would Allow Heavier Trucks on Missouri Highways

Posted on April 29, 2008
A bill that would permit heavier tractor-trailers on some Missouri highways is winding its way through the Missouri General Assembly. The bill, SB761, would allow semis weighing as much as 85,500 pounds to use U.S. 65 and U.S. 36 highways. Currently, trucks can weigh no more than 80,000 pounds in order to use the roadways...

Chicago Truck Crash kills Two and Injuries Twenty One People

Posted on April 28, 2008
A truck driver who killed two women and injured 21 people ? including four children ? received a negligent driving citation as a result of the crash, the Chicago Tribune reports. The deadly crash occurred on April 25 shortly after 5 p.m. in Chicago. A tractor-trailer driven by Don Wells, 64, careened off the Dan Ryan Expressway and slammed into a Chicago Transit Authority train station...

Trucker Sentenced to Prison in St. Louis for Hit and Run

Posted on April 17, 2008
A St. Louis County judge sentenced a truck driver who drove off after he hit and killed a tow truck operator to four years in prison, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. On April 30, 2007, Christopher Cottrell of Fenton was driving a heavy equipment rig on Interstate 70 in Des Peres...

Southern Illinois' Deadliest Roads

Posted on April 13, 2008
The Southern Illinoisan recently ran a three-day series on motor vehicle accidents in Southern Illinois. The series concluded that Illinois 37 is the deadliest roadway and Illinois 149 comes in third. According to the article titled ?Countless lives changed forever,? more than 200 people have been killed in the past decade on Southern Illinois? deadliest highways...

Truck Checkpoints Uncover Hundreds of Violations

Posted on April 10, 2008
Truck drivers were found to be in violation of multiple laws. Last week, the Nebraska State Patrol conducted surprise inspections on trucks traveling on Omaha roads. According to NBC-affiliate WOWT-6, law enforcement officials checked trucks weighing from one to 50 tons...

Truck-Only Lanes Aim to Ease Congestion

Posted on April 04, 2008
Large trucks and tractor trailers use Interstate 70 which runs through Missouri and Illinois and is a central corridor for trucks traveling east or west. To ease traffic congestion on Interstate 70, the Missouri Department of Transportation submitted a proposal to add four truck-only lanes on the heavily traveled highway...

Judge Sentences Truck Driver to 4 Years in Prison

Posted on April 04, 2008
An Illinois truck driver whose semi slammed into the back of a tour bus killing eight women was sentenced to four years in prison last Thursday. On Oct. 1, 2003, Vincente Zepeda?s 76,000-pound semi slammed into the back of a 25-passenger tour bus near a toll plaza...

Unsafe Trucks Ordered Off the Road

Posted on April 03, 2008
A surprise safety inspection of commercial trucks last week by the Dallas police found more than a third of the 23 big rigs pulled over for failed the test, CBS 11 News reports. The inspections were conducted on Interstate 20 after a series of deadly accidents involving tractor trailers occurred in Dallas...

Two St, Louis Women Die in Illinois Truck-Car Crash

Posted on April 03, 2008
Two women were killed in Illinois and a third was critically injured when their car crossed over interstate 55-70 into the path of a tractor trailer, according to the Illinois State Police. The accident occurred on eastbound Interstate 55-70, just before Interstate 64 splits heading east...

St. Louis Truck Driving School Accused of Accepting Bribes in Exchange for Commercial Drivers Licenses

Posted on April 01, 2008
A St. Louis truck driving school that allegedly engaged in a bribing and testing scheme to ensure their students passed the commercial driving test, trial began on Monday. Mustafa Redzic, the owner of Bosna Driving School, allegedly promised his students -- many of whom were Bosnian immigrants -- that they?d be able to obtain a commercial drivers license in a few days rather than several weeks, that their ability to read English would not be a problem and even that a lack of driving skill wouldn?t stand in the way...

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