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Trucker Pleads Guilty to 10 Counts of Negligent Homicide in 2009 Oklahoma Tragedy

Posted on August 06, 2010
As a Missouri tractor-trailer crash attorney, I've kept up with the news about a horrifying crash that happened last summer in Oklahoma. According to an Aug. 3 article from the Associated Press, the criminal case against the trucker who was allegedly at fault in the accident has been resolved...

St. Joseph Man Killed After Semi Truck Driver Drove Into His Path on Highway

Posted on July 27, 2010
As a Missouri 18 wheeler collision attorney, I hear about more fatal accidents involving semi trucks than most people. Sadly, a St. Joseph man recently lost his life in such an accident. According to the Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune, Michael A. Hart, 44, died July 14 in an accident caused by a tractor-trailer that pulled in front of his van...

Objects Are Closer Than They Appear in Your Mirror

Posted on July 27, 2010
If you're cruising downhill on a major freeway, and you see a huge big rig bearing down on you, what do you do? Well, if you're California Highway Patrol officer Tony Christolear, you get right in front of it. Earlier this month, officer Christolear was on duty on a section of Interstate 5 called ?The Grapevine...

Southern Illinois Crash Involving Multiple Semi Trucks Kills Two, Hospitalizes Three

Posted on July 20, 2010
A recent serious accident in southern Illinois involving several vehicles demonstrates how important it is for drivers of heavy trucks such as tractor trailers to use the utmost caution. Fox2 Now reported July 16 that two people were killed and three were hospitalized with injuries in a chain-reaction crash involving four semi trucks on I-57...

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When to Stop Trucking

Posted on July 20, 2010
Just more than a year ago, 10 people were killed in a horrific traffic accident on Oklahoma's Will Rogers Turnpike. Seventy-six-year-old Donald Creed was in his tenth hour of driving his 18 wheeler when he apparently failed to brake and ran into a line of cars which had stopped on the freeway, running completely over five of them...

Trucker for Kansas City Company Nears Plea Agreement for Horrific Oklahoma Crash

Posted on July 14, 2010
Last year, I wrote about a horrifying trucking accident that happened in Oklahoma, just over the border from Missouri, last summer. A tractor-trailer driver failed to slow or stop for stalled traffic on the interstate and plowed into a line of cars at 71 mph, killing ten people and injuring at least three more...

FMCSA Steps Up Oversight of Trucking Industry to Reduce Fatalities and Injuries

Posted on July 09, 2010
As a Missouri semi truck accident attorney, I've been following the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's efforts to improve its oversight of the trucking industry and reduce fatalities and injuries on the highways. For the last 30 months, a field test has been in place here in Missouri, as well as in several other states, to see how the FMCSA's new Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010 program will affect truckers in real life...

Trucker Driving on Suspended or Revoked License Loses Control of 18-Wheeler

Posted on June 30, 2010
A recent story in the Belleville News-Democrat caught my interest. An 18-wheeler slammed into a guardrail in East St. Louis after its driver lost control of the truck, and several cartons of liquid that the truck was carrying spilled across Interstate 55/70...

Trucking Company Involved in Death of Bride-to-Be Had Bad Safety Record

Posted on June 15, 2010
As a southern Illinois semi truck accident lawyer, I was dismayed to read about a fatal accident allegedly caused by a semi truck near the border of Illinois and Iowa on Interstate 80. The trucker who allegedly caused the wreck was employed by trucking company VGS Express, which has nearly the worst record of compliance with trucking regulations that any company can have...

St. Louis Area Sees Yet Another Trucking Crash Caused by Distracted Driving

Posted on June 08, 2010
After last week's semi trailer accident in Mattoon, Ill., I was dismayed to read that a similar accident occurred just two days later in Missouri. In this case, two people were killed south of St. Louis because a semi truck driver took his eyes off the road and did not notice slowing traffic in front of him...

Allegedly Distracted Semi Truck Driver Plows Into Slowed Traffic Near Mattoon, Ill.

Posted on June 02, 2010
As a southern Illinois 18-wheeler accident lawyer, I was saddened to read about a horrible accident near Mattoon, Ill. on Memorial Day. Holiday weekends often involve more tragic accidents than usual because so many people take road trips, and this means that we all have a duty to use extra caution in our holiday travel...

School Bus With Special Needs Kids Rear-Ended by Semi Truck in Southern Illinois

Posted on May 26, 2010
The Alton Telegraph reported recently that a semi truck rear-ended a school bus full of special needs children from the Alton School District recently in East Alton, Ill. The children were taken to a hospital as a precautionary measure. I am glad that no one appears to have been seriously hurt in this accident...

Equipment Failure Cited in Missouri Semi Truck Accident Caused by Falling Wheel

Posted on May 19, 2010
Last week, I wrote about the death of a young man killed by a wheel that came flying off a semi truck on Interstate 70 in St. Louis. Now that an investigation into the accident has been completed, the Missouri Highway Patrol say that equipment failure caused the accident and no charges will be filed against the truck driver...

Wheel Falling From Big Rig on Highway Kills St. Louis Man in Morning Traffic

Posted on May 11, 2010
Last week, I discussed a lawsuit filed because of an accident caused by a wheel that detached from a semi truck and crashed into the semi truck directly behind it. The driver whose truck was hit by the wheel is suing, claiming that he suffered permanent, severe injuries...

Trucker and Trucking Company Sued for Alleged Negligence in Truck Maintenance

Posted on May 04, 2010
A recent story about a semi truck accident lawsuit seeking more than $600,000 caught my eye, as a southern Illinois tractor-trailer crash lawyer, in part because it is a claim filed by one trucker against another trucker and his trucking company. The lawsuit was filed as the result of a tractor trailer accident in which a wheel came off of a semi truck and collided with another semi driving behind it...

Senator Calls for EOBRs in All Buses and Trucks to ?Protect All Drivers on the Roads?

Posted on April 29, 2010
As a St. Louis tractor-trailer crash lawyer, I was interested in a news item about the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation?s meeting with trucking industry agency leaders to discuss their oversight of motor carrier transportation...

Trucker in Massive Highway 40 Accident Pleads Guilty to Causing Three Deaths

Posted on April 20, 2010
As a St. Louis semi truck accident attorney, I've written several posts here about the fatal trucking accident that took place on Highway 40 here in St. Louis in July of 2008. Fourteen people were injured and three were killed when a tractor-trailer driven by Jeffrey R...

Woman Paralyzed by Truck Accident Cannot Find Doctor Who Will Accept Medicaid

Posted on April 15, 2010
Last month, I wrote about an accident in which a young southern Illinois couple suffered a devastating trucking accident on their wedding night. Their car collided with a grain truck that pulled out in front of them, leaving Kelli Wisneski, 20, paralyzed from the chest down...

Federal Agency Requires Tighter Oversight of Tired Truck Drivers

Posted on April 07, 2010
Last month, I blogged about the National Transportation Safety Board's Most Wanted List. In the List, the NTSB called for interstate commercial truck and bus companies to install electronic on-board recorders (EOBRs). These recorders automatically keep track of the number of hours a driver has worked and record the date, time, and location...

Four Injured When Two Big Rigs and One Car Crash on Illinois Expressway

Posted on March 25, 2010
Illinois drivers on the Dan Ryan Expressway must have seen quite a mess after a recent crash involving two semi trucks and a car. A full-size semi truck was unable to slow down enough for traffic ahead of it, and rear-ended a flatbed semi in front of it...

Out of Control Missouri Semi Truck Causes Chain Reaction Crash

Posted on March 18, 2010
The Belton Star-Herald recently published fifteen photos of a serious semi truck accident near Belton, Missouri. Miraculously, no one was killed in the chain-reaction crash involving several vehicles, but there were multiple injuries requiring the help of many emergency personnel, and the cars involved were mangled beyond repair...

NTSB Faults Trucking Regulator for Slow Response to Important Safety Issues

Posted on March 12, 2010
As a Missouri big rig accident attorney, I was interested to see that in February, the National Transportation Safety Board released its updated "Most Wanted List" of needed improvements to the nation's transportation systems. It named the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration as being unacceptably slow in its response to regulating tractor-trailer drivers and carriers on several important safety issues...

Tractor Trailer Kills Kansas Couple Whose Car Skids on Icy Bridge

Posted on March 05, 2010
The severe winter weather we've experienced here in Missouri has caused some dangerous road conditions. As a Missouri trucking accident attorney, this story about deaths on the road in our neighboring state of Kansas reminds me of the need for truck drivers to be especially careful during winter storms...

Insurers and Federal Regulators Raise Concerns About Sleep Apnea in Truckers

Posted on February 25, 2010
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, the federal agency that regulates the trucking industry, has highlighted sleep apnea as a growing concern in commercial truck safety. So I was interested, as a Missouri semi truck accident attorney, to see a Feb...

Grain Truck Accident Paralyzes Young Woman on Her Wedding Night

Posted on February 18, 2010
A recent article from the Belleville News-Democrat caught my eye as a southern Illinois tractor-trailer accident attorney. The Feb. 16 article is about Kelli and Chad Wisneski, both 20, who were involved in a serious accident with a grain truck on the night of their Nov...

Summer Trial Set for Truck Driver in Massive Interstate 40 Semi Truck Crash

Posted on February 12, 2010
As a St. Louis tractor-trailer accident attorney, I continue to follow the news about the fallout from the 2008 Interstate 40 crash. In that accident, trucker Jeffrey Knight plowed his semi truck into a line of stopped cars, leaving three dead and 15 injured, some permanently...

Federal Department of Transportation Bans Texting While Driving by Truckers

Posted on January 28, 2010
As a Missouri tractor-trailer accident lawyer, I was delighted to read that Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has banned truck drivers from texting and driving. According to a Jan. 27 article in the Springfield News-Leader, the ban is effective immediately and applies to all commercial drivers...

Thirty-Vehicle Pileup Outside Kansas City Leads to Multiple Truck Crashes

Posted on January 19, 2010
As a Missouri tractor-trailer accident attorney, I was disappointed to see that Kansas City suffered a major multi-vehicle pileup on Interstate 35 last weekend. A three-year-old died and at least six other people were seriously injured in a crash involving 30 vehicles, the Kansas City Star reported Jan...

Trucking Industry Blog Highlights Dangers of Texting on the Road

Posted on January 14, 2010
As a Missouri tractor-trailer accident lawyer, I was pleased to see a Jan. 13 blog post from FleetOwner.com addressing the dangers of texting while driving. The Trucks at Work blog made the case that truckers and the trucking industry generally should pay attention to this issue, in part because it?s a growing concern for safety advocates throughout the United States...

Federal Regulators Hear Comments on Stricter Trucker Hours of Service Rules

Posted on January 06, 2010
As a Missouri semi truck accident lawyer, I was pleased to see that federal regulators are considering tighter rules limiting truck drivers? hours on the road. According to a Jan. 4 article from business publication Logistics Management, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has announced four public ?listening sessions? to get input for new rules on truckers? hours of service...

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