Accident Facts A truck driver is being charged with failure to maintain the lane after he drove a 2000 Freightliner box truck through the guardrail on eastbound Interstate 20 and into the Augusta Canal. Driver Brent Whitlock escaped with minimal harm and swam to the shore. His dog was in the truck with him and…
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Two Accidents Involve a Total of 10 Vehicles, Including Tractor-Trailers
Accident Facts Two crashes involving a total of eight passenger vehicles and two semi trucks occurred around 9:30 a.m. on July 13 on the northbound I-95 in Riviera Beach, Florida. The first accident involved four passenger vehicles and a tractor-trailer. Officials on the scene said that the wreck was likely caused by heavy rain. An…
Read More »Fatal Accident Involving Truck Company with History of Poor Vehicle Maintenance
Accident Facts Flying debris from a tractor-trailer’s transmission took an eight-year-old boy’s life and permanently injured his mother, according to WGLC-TV. The Georgia State Patrol report that the Chevrolet Trailblazer, in which Cameron Mcilwain was traveling with his mother, Jameka Nicole Malone, and his infant sister, Kanary Malone, was heading westbound I-20 near downtown Atlanta.…
Read More »Teen Boy Dies in Accident with Semi Truck
Accident Facts A teenage boy is dead after an accident involving his pick-up truck and a tractor-trailer on the Bobby Jones expressway. The youth, Taylor Durrence, lost control of his vehicle and swerved, hitting the semi truck carrying diesel fuel head on. Nineteen-year-old Durrence was killed instantly. The semi truck driver was not injured, although…
Read More »The Dangers of Truck Accidents (Infographic)
We created this infographic to remind you, our readers, just how dangerous truck driving can be. Data was used from the Center for National Truck and Bus Statistics. Feel free to add the graphic to your blog. The instructions are at the bottom on how to do so. The Dangers of Truck Accidents A word…
Read More »North Carolina Mental Health Director Killed by Logging Truck
UPDATE: Trucker convicted in death of Steven Jordan. Accident Facts Steven Laverne Jordan, mental health director for North Carolina, was killed in an accident on July 4th. Charges have been pressed against Clifton Ellis Jr., driver of the logging truck that struck Jordan as he biked north on Louisburg Road. Both the logging truck and…
Read More »Semi Truck Driver Killed in Single Vehicle Accident
Accident Facts A late night semi truck accident proved fatal for the unnamed driver on June 28. The single vehicle accident involved a truck that flipped over between the Chatham and Lynes Parkways in the westbound lanes of Interstate 16 in Savannah, Georgia. The tractor-trailer reportedly took out roughly 150 feet of guardrail and some…
Read More »Georgia Firefighters Injured in Accident Involving Tractor-trailers
Accident Facts The first of three related accidents in the eastbound lanes of I-16 occurred on Wednesday between a tractor-trailer and a Toyota. Within minutes, that wreck led to another between a charter bus and a Ford Explorer. Then, as the Macon-Bibb fire department prepared to leave the scene of the first two accidents, two…
Read More »Computer On-board: Distraction Alert
We’ve all seen it before while driving down a highway: the car up ahead struggles to stay within its lane. We’ve watched the vehicle drift over the dotted lines and then abruptly swerve back into its own lane. These familiar scenes usually have us thinking one thing, “That driver is texting, fiddling with an iPod…
Read More »Oil Workers Survive the Field to Be Killed on the Road
When we imagine the dangers an oil or gas field worker faces, what comes to mind are explosions, falls, exposure to toxic and flammable chemicals, being injured or crushed by heavy machinery and the general wear and tear of the body associated with back-breaking labor. There are few jobs that are more demanding. But the…
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