Due to the fact that commercial trucks are considerably larger than passenger vehicles, it stands to reason that truck accidents are more likely to result in serious or even fatal injuries than car accidents. While...
Get to Know the Black Boxes in Commercial Trucks
According to estimates from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), more than 4,000 Americans are killed each year in accidents involving commercial trucks. Tens of thousands more suffer serious personal injuries. That is why it is so...
Important Steps to Take After a Virginia Truck Accident
Getting into an accident on the road is a common fear for nearly all Virginia drivers. Sharing the road with large, commercial truck can make many motorists especially nervous. Commercial trucks are large and intimidating, even at a distance....
Common Contributors to Virginia Truck Accidents
Truck accidents are, unfortunately, very common on the roads of Virginia, and they can occur very suddenly. In many cases, drivers of smaller vehicles are left with serious injuries, but they do not know how the truck accident happened, making it...
What Happens When Another Person Causes a Crash That Injures a Commercial Truck Driver?
Tractor-trailer drivers, bus drivers and tow truck or heavy equipment operators face the same dangers from negligent, reckless and drunk or drugged drivers as everyone else on the road. In some ways, they face even greater risks for suffering...
Five-Vehicle Crash in Winston-Salem Leaves Woman Seriously Injured
A woman in Winston-Salem, North Carolina had serious injuries that are life threatening on Aug. 2 in a five-vehicle crash involving a tractor trailer on US 52 South in North Carolina.
The woman was driving a Ford Escape that had to slow down in...
Driver Falls Asleep, Kills 2 in Polk County, Ohio
Two people died on Aug. 21 in a car accident on I-71 near Ashland, Ohio when the driver of a Toyota Camry reportedly fell asleep at the wheel.
The Ohio State Highway Patrol reported that the driver of the Camry - Paul Cory - fell asleep and...
TN Mother Working to Change Big Rig Safety Laws
A mother in Memphis, Tennessee who lost her son in a tractor trailer accident is working with the Truck Safety Coalition this year to convince insurance and trucking companies to increase safety rules on tractor trailers.
Rachel Higginbotham is...
Truck Driver Charged in Fatal I-81 Crash in Virginia
A tractor trailer crash on I-81 in Virginia has resulted in charges against the truck driver.
The Aug. 18 truck crash in Montgomery County, Virginia happened when a Freightliner tractor trailer was going north in the right lane of I-81 at MM...
Mother Fighting for Tougher Truck Rear Underride Guards
After her three daughters were killed in a terrible truck accident, a mother in Washington DC has been fighting for tougher rear underride guards on tractor trailers.
The rear underride guard on trucks is designed to prevent cars from sliding...
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