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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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Last Entry: March 30, 2011 at 05:20:39

Trucking Companies Bend Rules ? We All Suffer

Posted on December 08, 2010
A recent South Carolina news report has raised some questions about how closely trucking companies regulate their employees? and drivers' compliance with various safe practices. The central feature of the story was the claim of a big rig driver from Gaston, S...

Fatal Accident Closes Highway

Posted on December 01, 2010
Late last week, a semi truck was involved in an accident that killed one driver and shut down Buffalo's Route 20 for more than four hours. The trucking accident took place on Saturday and involved a semi truck and a passenger sedan. The driver and passenger in the sedan were both seriously injured in the collision...

Trucking Industry Groups Sue Federal Government to Delay New Truck Safety Rules

Posted on November 30, 2010
As a Missouri semi truck crash attorney, I?ve written here in the past about the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration?s attempts to tighten safety rules on the trucking industry. The centerpiece of recent attempts is CSA (Comprehensive Safety Analysis) 2010, an initiative by the FMCSA to update and improve its safety ratings for commercial trucking companies and their drivers...

Southern Illinois Pedestrian Killed by Semi Truck While Crossing Highway Intersection

Posted on November 26, 2010
As a St. Louis 18-wheeler accident attorney, I was surprised and disappointed to read about a rare accident involving a large truck and a pedestrian. According to the Alton Telegraph, 80-year-old Robert Schaefer died Nov. 18 after he was hit by a semi truck while crossing the highway...

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Trucking Accident Shuts Down Interstate

Posted on November 24, 2010
It's often said that driving is actually more dangerous than flying, statistically. However, since most people drive every day without being involved in an accident of any sort, let alone a serious one, it can be difficult to give this thought any credit...

Truck Accident Only Kills Power

Posted on November 17, 2010
Tractor-trailers are massive vehicles, and accidents involving them usually end very badly for someone. Fortunately, the only damage done in a recent accident in Chenango, N.Y., was to the local power lines. The incident occurred around 5 a.m. on Nov...

Kansas City Jury Awards $35 Million to Family of Woman Killed in Trucking Accident

Posted on November 17, 2010
A recent item in the Kansas City Star caught my eye as a Missouri semi truck accident attorney. That newspaper reported Oct. 21 on the end of a lawsuit by the family of a woman killed when her vehicle was rear-ended by a tractor-trailer. Anita Gibbs was the principal of Askew Elementary School in Kansas City before her death in 2006...

Police Attribute Fiery Head-On Semi Truck Collision to Driver?s Careless Passing

Posted on November 11, 2010
As a southern Illinois tractor trailer accident lawyer, I was disappointed to read that two men were killed in a apparently head-on trucking accident near Windsor, Ill. According to Illinois State Police, James W. Adair, 65, of Troy caused the crash when he attempted to pass by moving into oncoming traffic...

Trucking Company Had Safety Concerns Before Accident

Posted on November 11, 2010
A trucking crash that claimed the lives of five people in North Carolina in October has been viewed with additional concern and criticism after it was discovered that the trucking company has had numerous safety citations already this year. Globe Carrier Co...

Illinois Tractor Driver Suffers Head Injuries in Collision With Two Semi Trucks

Posted on November 05, 2010
As a southern Illinois tractor trailer crash attorney, a recent story about a semi truck crash caught my attention. According to KFVS, Two semi trucks and a John Deere tractor collided near Anna, Ill. on the morning of Friday, Oct. 29. The tractor?s driver was essentially caught in the middle as the two Mack trucks collided and suffered head injuries...

Dangers of LNG Trucking

Posted on November 04, 2010
An extensive debate on the safety of allowing tractor-trailer vehicles to carry liquefied natural gas (LNG) on highways and through cities currently is raging. LNG is a very unstable substance. It can ignite on contact with oxygen alone on some occasions, and even if this is not the case there are often plenty of sparks, smoke and small fires to help ignite the substance in a major semi-truck accident...

Tractor-Trailer Clips Pickup Outside Marshfield, Causing Serious Injuries

Posted on October 29, 2010
As a St. Louis semi trailer crash attorney, I noticed a recent news item in the Marshfield Mail about a tractor-trailer accident that happened Oct. 19, a mile west of Marshfield. The article does not definitively blame one driver or the other, but statements from the Missouri State Highway Patrol suggest that they see the crash as the trucker?s fault...

Trucking Accident - Tractor-trailer Collision Proves Fatal

Posted on October 27, 2010
America's roads are a marvel, bringing together distant places and allowing family from far apart to meet up and travel the landscape in exceptional ease. Sadly, one such story has ended in tragedy due to an accident involving a tractor-trailer and a much smaller Honda...

Families Win $62.7 Million Settlement in Oklahoma Semi Truck Crash Tragedy

Posted on October 22, 2010
As a Missouri semi truck crash attorney, I have continued following the stories about last year?s terrible trucking accident next door in Oklahoma. So I was interested to see an article about the settlement of a lawsuit brought by families of eight of the ten victims of a tractor-trailer accident in Oklahoma last summer...

Truck Accidents - Consequences of Disregarding Trucking Safety

Posted on October 20, 2010
Large trucks are said to be more likely to be involved in fatal road accidents as compared to passenger vehicles. In fact, the statistics are quite alarming, attributing 9 percent of fatal vehicular crashes to trucks ? a disproportionately large percentage considering how few trucks are on the road vs...

Construction Zone Semi Truck Accident Sends Two to Hospital and Wrecks Big Rigs

Posted on October 13, 2010
Drivers are required to slow down in construction zones for a reason: People at work in those areas are on foot and can be badly hurt even by a small car. Truckers who don't pay close enough attention to traffic and road conditions can be especially dangerous when they enter construction zones...

Trucking Accident - Asphalt Overkill

Posted on October 13, 2010
While asphalt is normally a good thing to have on the road, a recent traffic accident involved amounts of road tar that most graciously can be described as ?excessive.? Occurring around 2 a.m. on October 11 in Pennsylvania's Armstrong County, the accident closed the on-ramp between route 422 and routes 22/66...

Senators Introduce Bill Requiring Better Tracking of Truckers? Hours on the Road

Posted on October 06, 2010
Good news for those of us who want better safety on the roads: a bipartisan bill has been introduced to the U.S. Senate to require all truckers to use electronic on-board recorders, known as EOBRs. This technology would help enforce existing regulation of how many hours truckers can drive before they are required to rest...

Trucking Accident: An Illegal Right Turn Leads to Deadly Truck Accident

Posted on October 06, 2010
At 3 p.m. on September 18, 2010, a 61-year-old truck driver, Milan Tomasevic, was driving south on the Stevenson Expressway/I-55 traveling through Cook County, Illinois. The semi trailer truck he was driving is owned by G&S Expedited Freight, based out of Chicago...

Oklahoma Tragedy Prompts NTSB to Fault FMCSA for Not Addressing Driver Fatigue

Posted on October 01, 2010
As a Missouri tractor-trailer crash lawyer, I have been following the news about the Oklahoma crash last year that took 10 lives. Donald L. Creed, then 76 years old, was working for Kansas City-based Associated Wholesale Grocers when he crashed his rig into stopped traffic...

Driver Fatigue May Have Caused Deadly Turnpike Crash

Posted on September 29, 2010
The National Transportation Safety Board will release its final report in a deadly trucking accident that happened last year on the Will Rogers Turnpike near Miami, Oklahoma. In June of 2009, Donald Creed, 76, was driving a semi that crashed into several parked cars and caused a chain reaction that killed 10 people...

MoDOT Report Says Fatal Tractor-Trailer Crashes Are Declining in Missouri

Posted on September 23, 2010
As a Missouri semi truck crash attorney, I was happy to read that fatal accidents are on the decline, and I hope that this trend continues. According to the Kansas City Fox affiliate, the Missouri Department of Transportation says deadly crashes involving semi trucks have decreased by almost half since 2005, from 173 to 88...

Two Fatal Accidents Within a 24-Hour Period on Interstate 57

Posted on September 22, 2010
Trucking accidents are a cause for much alarm, both on the part of drivers and pedestrians. Every year, there are numerous reported accidents and deaths involving large trucks. A total of 4,808 people died, and another 84,000 suffered injuries from accidents involving large trucks in 2007 alone...

26 Injured, Four Seriously, in Missouri Pileup Including Truck That Failed to Stop

Posted on September 17, 2010
Twenty-six people were injured in a Missouri highway crash involving 18 vehicles, including a semi truck that rear-ended traffic stopped because of thick smoke. A Missouri Highway Patrol officer said that the accident would have been even worse if a second semi truck's driver had not stopped in time to avoid crashing into the other cars...

Look Out Below... Er... Above... Oh, Forget It!

Posted on September 15, 2010
We've all seen those signs ? usually around construction sites ? warning of overhead power lines. Well, the folks at the Yahnundasis Golf Club and the surrounding area in the upstate New York community of New Hartford found out what happens when someone forgets about those overhead lines...

Trucking Accident Jury Verdict $1,050,000 in Indiania Federal Court

Posted on September 10, 2010
St. Louis-based Carey, Danis & Lowe announces $1.05 million award in A man who was injured when his pickup truck was struck by two different tractor-trailers on a rain-slick highway was awarded $1.05 million by a federal jury in Indiana on Aug. 27. The motorist was represented by attorneys Jeffrey J...

Teenage Girl and Her Father Airlifted to Hospital After Semi Truck Accident

Posted on September 07, 2010
Two recent pileup accidents involving semi trucks snarled traffic for eight hours on Interstate 80 in Illinois. As a southern Illinois tractor trailer crash attorney, I frequently read about accidents like this, and I was especially sad to read that one of these accidents resulted in very serious injuries to a 13-year-old girl and her father...

Sound Career Advice for Truck Drivers Could Help Prevent Accidents as Well

Posted on August 26, 2010
As a Missouri 18-wheeler collision attorney, I have seen many families devastated by horrific accidents caused by careless semi truck drivers. The vast majority of these accidents could have been prevented if truckers had not been too exhausted or distracted to drive safely, or had not made poor judgments about their speed or following distance...

Truck Driver?s Failure to Stop Ignites Fiery Five-Vehicle Crash in Southern Illinois

Posted on August 19, 2010
A fiery crash involving several heavy trucks and an SUV on Interstate 64 in southern Illinois left two people injured, one critically. The crash took place near New Baden, at a scene police described as "absolute chaos." According to Illinois State Trooper Mike Link, the accident happened as traffic slowed down for a construction zone...

?Fireball? Tractor-Trailer Crash Claims Two Lives in Southern Illinois

Posted on August 13, 2010
Two men died in a fiery tractor-trailer crash on Interstate 70 near Highland, Ill., on August 9. As a southern Illinois tractor-trailer crash attorney, I am always distressed to hear about preventable accidents like this one. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that the wreckage from the crash was so great that the highway's westbound lanes were closed for more than nine hours...

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