Posts tagged Trucking Accidents

• Trucking Accident Causes Fiery Freeway Accident

  Claude Wyle | October 18, 2007 5:37 PM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  Two people suffered fatal injuries in a fiery pileup inside a Southern California freeway tunnel on Sunday night. Two trucks triggered the accident when they collided into each other, which led to a serious of chain-reaction accidents, involving at least 15 trucks. Ten people suffered serious injuries, and it took over 300 firefighters to extinguish the blaze.For more information on this...

• Trucker Chases Hat: Struck by SUV.

  Claude Wyle | August 17, 2007 5:54 PM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  Rick Uvaney, a trucker, survived being struck by a SUV in Canton, Ohio with relatively few injuries earlier this week. Uvaney pulled off the freeway to secure his load, when a sudden gust of wind blew his baseball cap he had worn for years into the median. Uvaney walked over to retrieve his hat, and was struck by an SUV. Uvaney's injuries, a broken wrist and dislocated shoulder, could have...

• Verdict: CHP 911 "Grossly Negligent."

  Claude Wyle | August 04, 2007 4:16 PM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  A San Francisco Superior Court Jury found the CHP 911 dispatch center "grossly negligent" in mishandling a deadly trucking accident. The mishandling of the 2003 call was a factor in the death of Richard Housley, who was crushed between the truck and trailer of the truck he was driving. The jury determined that 911 dispatch center departed from its standard procedures when they failed to call...

• Scaffolding Collapse Causes Catastrophic Highway Accident

  Claude Wyle | July 31, 2007 5:23 PM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Failure of scaffolding on a highway on ramp near Chico, California caused a catastrophic highway accident early this morning. Miraculously, no fatalities occurred when thirty-six tons of steel collapsed on top of vehicles underneath. Three people suffered serious injuries, including multiple broken bones. One survivor was trapped in his FedEx truck for more than three hours before being...

• Distracted Driver Hits Tomato Truck; Kills Passenger

  Claude Wyle | July 20, 2007 10:32 AM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  The death of a 23-year-old woman this Sunday could have been avoided if only the driver in the van she rode in paid more attention to surrounding traffic conditions. Just south of the Herndon crossing on northbound I-5 at approximately 9:54 p.m., Pakom Lengsrichaem sped along at 75 mph. He did not notice traffic slowing ahead of him, and rear-ended a tomato truck moving at 15 mph. The tomato...

• Truck Driver Dies After Hitting Overpass

  Shannon Weidemann | February 27, 2007 7:10 PM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  A 76-year-old truck driver was killed in Lodi, New Jersey on Route 17 on Monday. The driver was from Newburgh, N.Y. and may have lost control of his vehicle on a snowy patch of the road. His truck slammed into a column of the Route 80 overpass.Carney said there was no indication alcohol played a role in the accident, though toxicology results are pending."We have a witness and are going over...

• Driver Causes Serious Injuries in San Francisco Truck Crash

  Claude Wyle | December 01, 2006 10:17 AM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  A driver of a work truck Tuesday afternoon crashed into a car, then rear-ended a Muni bus, and then smashed into another car, in the intersection of Fourth and Howard streets in San Francisco. This serious auto accident, sent two occupants of a Honda struck by the truck to San Francisco General Hospital in critical condition. The man who caused this truck accident with serious personal injuries...

• 11 Million Verdict in Solano County Wrongful Death Case

  Claude Wyle | November 18, 2006 3:50 PM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  A Solano County jury awarded a family $11 million for the death of a husband and five year old son in a big rig crash on Interstate-80. The defendant was Swift trucking. This was the biggest award for a personal injury or wrongful death case in Solano County. The wrongful death plaintiff in this truck collision case suffered more than money can possibly compensate, however this jury did the...

• 2.5 Million Settlement by our Truck Accident Lawyers

  Claude Wyle | November 12, 2006 11:04 AM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  Our truck accident attorneys fought for, and won a $2,500,000 settlement, for a sixty-six year old woman, who was paralyzed when she was rear-ended and run off the road by a big rig, in Monterrey County, California. The truck driver lied to the CHP and said that our client had made and unsafe pass over the double yellow line, and that she had clipped the front of the big rig. Although the police...

• Hit-and-Run Driver Surrenders Five Days After Serious Car v. Truck Accident

  Claude Wyle | November 11, 2006 10:11 AM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  The driver of a car who rear ended a truck on the Altamont Pass on Highway 580 last Saturday, and fled the accident scene has surrendered to the CHP. A 22 year old woman who was driving a Toyota Echo rammed a pick-up truck full of people, causing the pick-up truck to go off the road and to roll over several times. The family of five who were in the car v. truck accident all suffered serious...