Tractor-Trailer Accidents

• Cement mixer truck overturns

  Staff Writer | January 08, 2007 2:06 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  Dateline Alabama.com reported a Thursday truck accident involving an overturned cement mixter truck on Tuscaloosa's New Watermelon Road. The accident clogged traffic to North River for more than one hour. The driver was injured, but later released from the hospital. According to the story:The accident highlighted a longstanding concern about access to and from North River on New Watermelon Road...

• Truck accident closes I-85

  Staff Writer | December 29, 2006 9:21 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  Early yesterday morning in Macon County, a fiery crash involving an 18-wheeler truck closed down the northbound lane of I-85. The truck crashed into a bridge, damaging it but fortunately not hurting the driver or anyone else.The Alabama Department of Transportation said that emergency repairs are necessary to partially reopen the damaged bridge. Crews are working around the clock to have this...

• Police response to fatal accident questioned

  Staff Writer | November 29, 2006 12:31 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  The family of a truck accident victim who was not found for several days is looking for answers, a report from WTVM.com says. The victim's fiancee wants to know why it took so long for police to find the truck, and whether the police responded appropriately.According to the report, the victim left home on Friday, Nov. 17, and was never heard from again. Three days later, a truck driver on...

• Fatal accident lands truck driver in jail

  Staff Writer | November 17, 2006 12:33 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  Two trucks collided Tuesday morning just west of Dothan, Alabama, at the intersection of Highway 84 and Houston County Road 9. Tragically, a Florida man driving one of the trucks was killed in the crash. Though details are not provided in the report on WTVYnews4.com, State Troopers arrested the driver of the other truck for manslaughter. The trucking accident is yet another sad story about the...

• Child hit by truck prompts parade debate

  Staff Writer | November 03, 2006 9:45 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A tragic accident emerged from the University of Alabama Homecoming parade last weekend when an 8-year-old girl was run over by an 18-wheeler truck while going after a piece of candy tossed from a float. The debate ensues over whether candy and other items should be thrown from parade floats, risking the lives of children and others who run to pick them up amidst moving vehicles.Law enforcement...

• Information on tractor-trailer underride accidents

  Staff Writer | October 26, 2006 12:52 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  This dangerous situation occurs when the front of a small automobile touches the rear or side of a tractor-trailer (semi or large truck). The great risk occurs when the passenger vehicle underrides the trailer, and the trailer bed intrudes into the occupant compartment above and behind the hood. Tractor-trailer underrides have been known to cause serious and deadly accidents. In tractor-trailers...

• Truck driver charged in deadly crash

  Tom Methvin | October 13, 2006 3:58 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A truck driver has been charged with homicide in a crash that killed five people and injured 29 others on a bus carrying high school band students home from a weekend competition. The man's tractor-trailer had swerved off an Interstate highway and jackknifed across the bus' path before dawn on October 16th. The charter bus slammed into the rig, killing the band's director, his wife, their...

• Recent court cases raise questions about trucking safety

  Tom Methvin | October 13, 2006 3:56 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  Over the past several years a "disturbing pattern of dangerous activity" by the nation's trucking industry has developed. We find that a good number of the fatalities resulting from trucking accidents involve driver fatigue. During 2004, 5,190 people were killed in truck crashes, an increase of 154 fatalities over 2003. Additionally, in 2004, the number of truckers killed in crashes increased...

• Interstate crash case settled

  Tom Methvin | October 13, 2006 3:54 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  Our firm, Beasley Allen, has negotiated a settlement in a wrongful death arising out of an interstate highway crash that occurred in Baldwin County, Alabama. We representated the families of two ladies who were state employees traveling to an educational seminar in Mobile. While stopped in traffic due to a prior accident along with a number of cars, an 18-wheeler plowed into their car at a...