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Trucker Criminally Charged in Massive St. Louis Semi Truck Accident That Claimed Three Lives

Posted on April 17, 2009
Prosecutors have criminally charged the driver of a tractor-trailer with the deaths of three people in last summer?s tragic St. Louis truck crash on Interstate 40. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported April 15 that Jeffrey Knight of Alabama is being held in Clayton County Jail on three counts of manslaughter for the deaths of Lydia Miller, Alvin Mast and Charles ?Keith? Cason...

Charges May Be Brought in Semi Truck Accident that Killed Construction Worker

Posted on April 06, 2009
Prosecutors in southern Illinois are considering criminal charges against the driver of a truck that killed a construction worker last June. According to the Belleville News-Democrat, the victim, Cedric L. B. Gasper, was sitting on the tailgate of parked a pickup truck on Illinois 15 when the tractor-trailer pushed through several construction barricades and rammed the front end of the truck...

Liquid Nitrogen Tanker Truck Involved in Single Vehicle Southern Illinois Truck Accident

Posted on April 03, 2009
A tanker truck carrying a load of liquid nitrogen for fertilizer crashed in Belleville, Ill. March 6, the Belleville News-Democrat reported. The truck?s driver was delivering the fertilizer to his son?s farm, the newspaper said, when he made a left turn and slid into a ditch...

Trucker Acquitted in Fatal Poplar Street Bridge Accident While New Trucking Accident Happens on Same Bridge

Posted on March 27, 2009
A tractor-trailer truck overturned on the Poplar Street bridge in St. Louis March 4, the same day another truck driver was acquitted in an unrelated fatal truck accident on the same bridge. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that the tractor-trailer crashed into a ramp on the bridge and overturned before 9 a...

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MoDOT Considers Truck-Only Lanes on I-70 to Reduce Missouri Trucking Accidents

Posted on March 18, 2009
The Missouri Department of Transportation is pressing ahead with its plan to build truck-only lanes on part of Interstate 70, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Examiner of Independence, Mo. reported. After a yearlong study of the effects and cost of the project, the department is proceeding with public discussions of the plan, such as the one held March 5 in Blue Springs...

Hazmat Spill After Missouri Truck Crash Closes Highway Near Springfield

Posted on March 13, 2009
U.S. Route 65 was closed for about three hours between Ozark and Springfield due to a Missouri trucking accident, the Springfield News-Leader reported March 5. The highway was closed after a tanker truck carrying a load of ammonium nitrate had a one-vehicle rollover accident, later determined to have been caused by a blown tire...

Trucking Company Sues State for Failure to Salt Road -- Missouri Trucking Accident Attorney

Posted on February 27, 2009

Semi Truck Spill Closes Kansas City Entrance Ramp -- St. Louis Mack Truck Accident Law Firm

Posted on February 23, 2009
A semi truck rolled over and spilled hazardous chemicals on an Interstate 70 entrance ramp Feb. 6, the Kansas City Star reported. According to the paper, the trucker got out of the truck himself and was taken to the hospital for non-life-threatening injuries...

Dropped Fire Hose Causes Pileup on Interstate 64 -- Southern Illinois Truck Accident Lawyer

Posted on February 18, 2009
The Johnston City Fire Department will cover the costs of multiple minor accidents caused by a dropped fire hose, the Southern Illinoisan reported Feb. 4. The truck dropped 1,000 feet of hose on Interstate 64 near Centralia, the paper said, on its way to Freeburg for maintenance...

Truck Driver Injured in Southeast Missouri Crash -- St. Louis Big Rig Accident Attorney

Posted on February 03, 2009
A truck driver was injured Jan. 13 after his tractor-trailer rolled over on Highway 60, the Joplin Globe reported. The driver was in Lawrence County at about 1:21 p.m. when he apparently fell asleep, according to the Missouri Highway Patrol. He lost control of his truck and swerved off and onto the road before swerving off again and overturning the tractor-trailer...

Train Collides with Garbage Truck in Southern Illinois -- Missouri Traffic Accident Law Firm

Posted on January 28, 2009
For the second time in just over a month, a passenger train has hit a vehicle across the tracks in Macoupin County, Ill. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Chicago-bound train hit a garbage truck that was on the tracks just north of Carlinville, in southern Illinois, early on Jan...

Tractor trailer kills motorist in Warren County, Missouri Accident--Missouri Truck Accident Lawyer

Posted on January 26, 2009
More than a dozen vehicles were involved in a chain-reaction accident on westbound Interstate 70 near Warrenton, about 50 miles west of St. Louis, Missouri on December 23, 2008. As reported by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the accident claimed the life of one motorist, Edwin W...

Cell Phone May Have Distracted Semi Driver in Massive St. Louis Trucking Accident -- Missouri Truck Accident Lawyer

Posted on January 22, 2009
Investigators into a multi-car trucking accident on Highway 40 say the truck driver was using a cell phone at the time of the wreck, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch has reported. According to the paper, the driver admitted to investigators that he was reaching for and opening his phone before his truck hit a line of vehicles at the junction with Interstate 270...

Truck Driver Admits Cell Phone Distraction Before Crash--Missouri Truck Accident Lawyer

Posted on January 14, 2009
A truck driver who was involved in a deadly highway pileup in St. Louis last summer admitted to a Missouri Highway Patrol investigator that he was distracted by a cell phone before he ran into a line of 10 cars, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. On July 15, 2008, Jeffrey R...

Bus Driver Faces Reckless Driving Charges-Missouri/Illinois Truck Accident Lawyer

Posted on January 12, 2009
A collision between two city buses in Lynchburg, Virginia sent three people to the hospital with minor injuries, The News & Advance reports. The crash occurred on Jan. 12. Two buses were approaching a stop light when a bus driven by James Fitzhugh slammed into the back of the other bus...

Missouri Truck Crash Sends Two to Hospital -- St. Louis 18-Wheeler Accident Law Firm

Posted on December 28, 2008
A grandmother and her grandchild in central Missouri ended up in the hospital after a crash with a large truck, the Daily Guide of Waynesville reported. This was actually the second truck accident to happen Dec. 3 along the eastbound side of Interstate 44...

Dump Truck's Flying Tire Injures Man-- Missouri Semi Accident Lawyer

Posted on December 24, 2008
A man was injured when a truck?s tire came loose and struck him during morning rush hour, Minnesota?s WCCO reported. The station said a tire came off a dump truck on Interstate 35W during morning rush hour Dec. 5, hitting the man?s car. The highway was closed to allow a medical helicopter to take the victim to a hospital...

Illinois Corruption Scandal Recalls Illegal Sale of Truck Driver Licenses -- St. Louis Tractor-Trailer Accident Attorney

Posted on December 22, 2008
The corruption scandal surrounding Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has prompted a series of news reports explaining the state?s history of corruption, such as this one from Time magazine. As the article points out, Blagojevich took office directly after former Gov...

Semi Crash Resulting in Serious Injuries

Posted on December 03, 2008
The collision of two tractor trailers causing serious injuries has resulted in a jury awarding $23.5 millionthe Wichita Eagle reports. On March 16, 2006, Terry Frederick, from Overland Park, Kan., was a passenger in a Yellow Freight semi. Frederick?s lawyers claimed that Robyn Getchel, the driver of a Swift Transportation tractor-trailer, was backing up from a rest stop onto the highway when she hit the Yellow Freight semi...

Missouri Truck Accidents are down in 2007

Posted on October 26, 2008
Fewer truck accidents occurred in Missouri comparing 2005 with 2007. In fact there were 23% fewer fatal accidents which means Missouri highways are safer. The Missouri Highway Patrol reports that the number of commercial motor vehicle fatality crashes fell 23 percent between 2005 and 2007...

Wrongful Death Suit Filed Regarding Fatal Truck Crash Involving VH-1 Truck Driver

Posted on October 26, 2008
The parents of a 19-year-old college student who was killed when the car she was riding in was struck by a truck hauling sound equipment for a reality dating show have filed a wrongful death lawsuit, the Associated Press reports. On Sept. 26, truck driver Dennis Hernandez was hauling equipment for the ?Rock of Love Bus? reality series when he allegedly fell asleep at the wheel, crossed the center line and crashed into a car driven by St...

Jury in Tractor Trailer Crash Death Case Awards $1 Million

Posted on October 21, 2008
A jury in Alabama has awarded $1 million to the son of a man killed in a tractor-trailer crash, the Dothan Eagle reports. Kenneth Watkins filed the wrongful death suit after his 79-year-old father, Joseph Watkins, was killed at the intersection of U...

Recent Trucking Accident Jury Verdicts

Posted on October 05, 2008
When trucks are involved in accidents rarely to the accidents involve minor injuries. The fact that truck accidents involve serious injuries is demonstrated by the size of some of the recent jury verdicts in truck accident cases. Here?s a round-up of recent verdicts involving tractor-trailer crashes that have been handed down across the country: $87 million ? A Texas man who was partially paralyzed after a 6-ton U-Haul truck rolled over him was awarded the amount by a Dallas County jury...

Jury Awards $1.5M in Truck Crash Case

Posted on October 03, 2008
Last week, a Texas jury awarded $1.5 million to two men who were hurt when a semi crashed into their car, the Associated Press reports. In 2006, Ronny Martinez, 37, and Kenneth O?Neal, were driving down a highway in Texas when a tractor-trailer struck their car...

Truck Driver Falls Asleep, Kills Two Students

Posted on September 29, 2008
A college student who was driving home to visit her family for the weekend was killed by a truck driver who fell asleep behind the wheel, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. Yasmin S. Jackson, a 19-year-old sophomore at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, was headed north on Interstate 57 in Southern Illinois at about 5 p...

Truck Driver Fatigue Blamed for Five Deaths

Posted on September 18, 2008
The National Transportation Safety Board revealed this week that a trucker who failed to use his off-duty time to rest and then fell asleep behind the wheel was the cause of a crash that killed five people. The deadly collision occurred on Oct. 16, 2005 just before 2 a...

Truck Drive Fatigue a/k/a Asleep at the Wheel--Causes Another Truck Accident

Posted on September 09, 2008
Despite the warnings against driving while drowsy, fatigue continues to be a problem for truck drivers. Recently, a 55-year-old truck driver who was traveling eastbound on I-70 fell asleep at the wheel. The truck went off the highway and back on then overturned on its side...

Truck Hauling Unstable Payload Triggers Highway Shutdown

Posted on September 06, 2008
As an accident last week in Texas demonstrates, hauling unstable cargo can have disastrous consequences. On Sept. 3, a Ford F-150 pickup truck was hauling a dump truck attached to a trailer. According to the McKinney Courier-Gazette, the dump truck was unstable and caused the pickup driver to lose control...

Man Struck by Cement-Mixer Truck Awarded $1.95 Million

Posted on August 18, 2008
A man who was struck by a cement-mixer truck while working on his disabled vehicle has been awarded $1.95 million from a Maryland jury, the Baltimore Sun reports. In 2005, Robert L. Howard, a truck driver with Goodwill Industries, was standing outside his disabled vehicle with his assistant, Errol Johnson...

Truck Weights and Lengths are Considered by House Subcommittee Holds Hearing on

Posted on August 12, 2008
Last month, a House subcommittee held a hearing that examined the impact of existing truck weight and length regulations on safety, highway infrastructure, and interstate commerce. The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure received testimony on July 9...

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