Over Two Dozen Semi-Trucks Involved in Massive Multi-Vehicle Accident on Interstate Interstate 80 is a primary roadway artery through the state of Wyoming. Commerce and personal travel depend on this highway. Unfortunately, wintertime weather conditions wreak havoc on this crucial highway annually. Thus far during the 2019 – 2020 winter season, the roadway has been closed 54 of the last 152 days. Weather alone is not the only reason this freeway is clamped closed. Catastrophic accidents plague I-80 in the wintertime…
Two Workers Dead at Pasadena, Texas Tanker Washing Facility Early Reports Indicate That Workers Were Overcome By Toxic Fumes According to early information provided via Twitter, the Harris County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) is reporting that two workers have been killed at a tanker truck and railroad tanker car cleaning business in Pasadena. The accident occurred at the former Alpha Technical Services (ATS) “Express Services” tank cleaning facility at 5100 Underwood Road near West Fairmont Parkway around 1:30 a.m. on Saturday,…
New Mexico Jury Awards $40 Million Verdict in Student Truck Driver Accident Although many of us don’t realize it, Interstate “Big Rig” trucking plays a vital part in our everyday lives. As an example, practically everything that you buy in your local supermarket was at some point transported by a commercial truck. The same holds true for the car you drove to the shopping center to buy your child’s back-to-school clothes: both your car and your child’s clothing were transported…
Big-Rig Cab Cameras, Brain Wave Monitoring, and Holding Trucking Companies Responsible Over 15 million semi-trucks lumber across U.S. roadways at this juncture in time. In the most recent year a full set of statistical data is available, over 4,100 people were killed in semi-truck accidents. 116,000 injury accidents occurred that year. A large majority of killed or injured men, women, and children were drivers of automobiles and passengers that were involved in collisions with massive semi-trucks. The typical person who…
Commercial Truck Driver Kills Seven Motorcyclists, Injures Three More A 23-year old man has been taken into custody and has been charged with seven counts of negligent homicide following a horrific accident involving this young man and 10 motorcyclists on a New Hampshire highway. The now-incarcerated man was driving a truck, with a trailer in tow, over the weekend of June 22 and 23, 2019. According to preliminary reports from investigators, the man diving the truck who is now facing…