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Covers trucking accidents and trucking accident legal news, cases, and issues with a focus on South Carolina Law.
By Michael Jeffcoat, Esq.

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Last Entry: April 20, 2010 at 10:27:14

Fatal Tractor Trailer Crash in Spartanburg County, South Carolina

Posted on April 20, 2010
Thirty-seven-year-old Jessica Lyn Wright was killed Monday when her 2009 Ford car was involved in a collision with a tractor trailer and a South Carolina Department of Transportation dump truck. The accident happened on the southbound side of Interstate 85, between the Brockman-McClimon Road and Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport exits, near Greer, South Carolina...

Lexington County Pick-up Truck Accident Claims One Life

Posted on April 19, 2010
At approximately 3:40 AM on Sunday, April 18, a pick-up truck passenger was ejected from the vehicle and died at the scene, along Interstate 77 in Lexington County, South Carolina. Evidence at the scene indicates that the truck driver was traveling at a high rate of speed...

Hit and Run Trucker Sought by South Carolina Highway Patrol

Posted on April 13, 2010
South Carolina Highway Patrol troopers are searching for a truck driver who hit another driver on I-77 near Rock Hill. The tractor trailer hit a 63-year-old woman's car on Friday morning at about 6:30 AM, pushing her through the cable barriers and across the interstate, where she collided with another 18 wheeler...

Wear Your Seatbelt - A Reminder

Posted on April 12, 2010
This morning, I saw a stirring video which highlights the importance of wearing your seatbelt. Watch it here.

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Harry Reid's Wife and Daughter Hit by a Tractor Trailer

Posted on March 12, 2010
Senator Harry Reid's wife and daugher were involved in a four-vehicle wreck yesterday, leaving 69-year-old Landra Reid with a broken neck, a broken back, and a broken nose. The couple's 48-year-old daugher, Lana Reid Barringer, suffered a neck injury and facial lacerations, after a tractor trailer rear-ended their car...

Tractor-Trailer Crash on I-95 Causes Two Deaths

Posted on January 13, 2010
Be alert and aware when driving. Unfortunately, this warning came too late for two people in Dunn, North Carolina. On January 12, 2010, Bert Baytops of Newark, New Jersey and a female companion were fatally injured on Interstate 95 when apparently the driver fell asleep at the wheel...

Road Rage and Tractor Trailers are a Volatile Mix - Just Ask Carlos Perez

Posted on September 03, 2009
Imagine, one minute driving along the freeway without a care in the world, and the next minute looking in your rear view mirror and seeing nothing but the grill of a semi truck. That?s exactly what happened to Carlos Perez of Geneva, New York, on August 21, 2009...

* WARNING: THIS IS A VERY GRAPHIC VIDEO * Texting While Driving PSA

Posted on August 29, 2009
Click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGE8LzRaySk Proceed with caution here, but this video captures the truly awful consequences that arise when drivers do not look out for the other guy and operate their vehicles safely. In the aftermath of major collisions, we help people begin to pick up the pieces and put their lives back together...

Michigan Big Rig Wreck Causes Overpass to Melt

Posted on July 29, 2009
If anyone needs a reminder about just how dangerous truck accidents can be to the public, read this. On July 15, 2009 in Hazel Park, Michigan, a tractor-trailer exploded under an overpass causing the overpass itself to literally melt and disintegrate...

The Surface Transportation Authorization Act of 2009

Posted on June 25, 2009
On June 24, 2009 the committee that controls the highway and trucking issues in the U.S. House of Representatives (the House Transportation and Infrastructure?s Subcommittee on Highways and Transit) will be reviewing the language contained in the Surface Transportation Act of 2009...

Driver Falls Asleep at the Wheel and Ends up Under a Tractor-Trailer

Posted on June 22, 2009
On June 2, 2009, Christine Osterholtz of Lakeland, Florida was heading eastbound on Interstate 4 when she fell asleep. She was traveling in the center lane and her vehicle drifted into the far right lane into the pathway of a tractor trailer being driven by Michael Dacunto of Spring Hill...

Tractor Trailer versus Ford Pick-Up in Greenville, South Carolina

Posted on June 04, 2009
According to reports, on June 3, 2009, four construction workers were on the way to their homes in Greenville, South Carolina, when the Ford pick-up they were in veered into oncoming traffic hitting the cab of tractor trailer head on. The collision caused a third vehicle to crash into the back of the big rig which was transporting a backhoe on a lowboy trailer...

Two Tractor Trailers Collide on 1-20

Posted on May 29, 2009
On May 20, 2009, James Bush of Smyrna, Georgia lost his life when the big rig he was driving side-swiped another 18 wheeler near mile marker 158 in Interstate 20. Mr. Bush worked for the Pepsi Cola Company and was driving westbound on I-20 when he came upon Kenneth Woodfork of Doraville, Georgia, whose truck had broken down in the emergency lane...

Explosion at Orangeburg, South Carolina Trucking Company Takes the Lives of Two Employees

Posted on April 28, 2009
Two employees were killed and a third injured in an April 22 fueling mishap at Rutland Timber and Trucking, a company near Orangeburg, South Carolina. The employees were using a homemade fuel pump powered by the truck?s battery to move diesel fuel from a storage tank to a truck - when a massive explosion was touched off...

Dump Truck Tips Over Onto Honda Civic in Raleigh, North Carolina

Posted on April 28, 2009
Two Holly Spring citizens barely escaped death when a dump truck driver lost control and overturned onto their Honda Civic. Edmund Theodore Jackson, a resident of New Haven, Connecticut, was driving his dump trunk down Davis Road near Farm Pond Road when he lost control and veered off onto the right shoulder...

Truck Plummets from Interstate 77 Overpass onto Wilson Boulevard in Columbia, South Carolina

Posted on April 28, 2009
A tractor trailer truck exploded into flames after it veered off an I-77 overpass onto Wilson Boulevard in Columbia, South Carolina. The truck overturned which caused about 75 gallons of diesel fuel to spill out over the engine and ignite. The truck driver escaped certain death when two Richland County deputies and a nearby motorist pulled him to safety...

Fatal Truck Accident in Raleigh, North Carolina

Posted on April 27, 2009
A single vehicle incident on Interstate 40 in Raleigh, North Carolina, claimed the life of the driver of a tractor-trailer on April 27. The truck and box trailer burned after coming to rest at the outside shoulder. Several brave witnesses tried to rescue the driver from the wreckage, but were unable to free him before the fire engulfed the truck...

Tractor-Trailer Backs Over Good Samaritan in Moncks Corner

Posted on April 07, 2009
A construction worker trying to help free a stuck semi was killed on April 1 when the truck backed over him. The truck, pulling a flatbed load of concrete pipe, got stuck on a muddy dirt road. Kevin Armstrong, a site manager for Cooper River Construction, went behind the truck to attach a chain so a bulldozer could pull the truck free...

Collision With Semi Takes Life of Passenger Riding in Bed of Pickup

Posted on April 07, 2009
A Georgetown County, South Carolina collision between a Dodge Dakota and a logging truck on April 4, 2009, claimed the life of a passenger in the Dakota. The Dakota was travelling in the Pleasant Hill community around 8:15 PM. Unfortunately, the Dodge was carrying a load of yard debris that reportedly was hanging over the back of the vehicle, obscuring the view of its rear lights...

Georgia Dump Truck / Train Collision Takes Life of Driver

Posted on March 12, 2009
A February 20 collision near Savannah, Georgia between a dump truck and two trains claimed the life of the dump truck driver. The collision occurred near the entrance to the City of Savannah?s water treatment plant in Port Wentworth, Georgia. The driver of the dump truck, Solomon Mainer, worked for a contractor removing sediment from the ponds at the treatment plant...

Family Receives a Settlement After the Death of Eleven Year Old Boy in Bus Wreck

Posted on November 19, 2008
As reported in the press today, the family of a young boy who was lost in a church bus wreck earlier this year has reached a settlement with the insurance companies who represent the driver of the bus. Young Austin Green passed away from injuries he received in the January 23, 2008 crash...

Lexington Tractor Trailer Accident Claims the Lives of a South Carolina Couple

Posted on November 18, 2008
One moment, Perry Miller and Patricia Miller were enjoying their drive, and the next, their Honda Accord was thrown off Interstate 20 south of Lexington, South Carolina in what is now being described as a "freak" tractor trailer accident. Investigators are still trying to piece together what exactly happened in the October 28 crash...

Raleigh, North Carolina Gas Tanker Fire Injures Driver

Posted on September 17, 2008
A gasoline tanker merging onto westbound I-440 from Interstate 40 overturned and exploded just before 1 a.m. on August 26, 2008 in Raleigh, North Carolina. A witness reported that the tanker was clearly speeding when the trucker lost control of his rig...

Four Vehicle Tractor-Trailer Wreck Injures Two Near Savannah, Georgia

Posted on September 17, 2008
A trucker was cited for following too close after a 4 vehicle wreck in Effingham County, Georgia on September 14, 2008. The truck driver was following a Ford F-250 on Georgia Highway 17, when the Ford slowed to make a turn. The big rig struck the rear of the Ford, and then swerved into the oncoming lane, before hitting a mail truck head-on...

Three Perish in Florence County, South Carolina Collision with Logging Truck

Posted on September 17, 2008
Three of ten passengers lost their lives on July 29, 2008 when their Toyota van collided with a logging truck on Interstate 95. The collision occurred at about 11:45 p.m. near the mile marker 170 rest area. The Florence County Coroner identified the victims as Abdurahman Abdurahman, age 20, Sofonias Debebe, also age 20, and Deraa Hago, age 8...

Columbus, North Carolina Tanker Truck Crash

Posted on September 16, 2008
A tanker truck crashed into a concrete median on Interstate 26 in Polk County, North Carolina last month, which shut down the interstate. The tanker truck crashed into the barrier wall and then flipped onto its side. Chunks of concrete from the wall were thrown all over the interstate...

Administration Continues to Defy Congress on Mexican Truck Issue

Posted on September 09, 2008
I?ve reported previously on the Bush Administration?s continued efforts to cram down the nation?s throat a program allowing Mexican trucks full access to the interior of the U.S. Because the trucks and the drivers? licensing aren?t close to U.S. standards, I have opposed this program...

Warren County, GA Wrecks Show Need for Seatbelts

Posted on September 09, 2008
Two single-car incidents last month on I-20 in Warren County, Georgia ended vastly different for their victims. In both cases, seat belt use could have made a difference. The first wreck was witnessed by Georgia State Trooper First Class Powell Allen, who was driving along rain-soaked Interstate 20 on the way to a separate wreck scene...

Tanker Truck Collision Takes Lives of Two in Sumter County, SC

Posted on September 09, 2008
The collision between a fuel oil tanker truck and a Saturn Vue in the evening of August 20, 2008, ended with the deaths of the two occupants of the car and injuries to the truck driver. The wreck happened around 9:00 p.m. near the Florence county line, at the intersection of Highway 53 and Highway 341, at Hobbs Crossroads...

GAO Report Highlights Concerns of Medically Unfit Truckers

Posted on September 09, 2008
A recent report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that about 563,000 drivers in the DOT commercial drivers database also were rated as 100% disabled by other U.S. agencies. A House Transportation subcommittee had asked for a study of the scope of the problem of medically unfit commercial drivers on the road...

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