ABCO Transportation, Inc., a refrigerated freight haulder based in Dade City, Florida, has a chronically unsatisfactory record with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration with regard to unsafe driving violations. In my experience as a trucking trial attorney, when a trucking company has a record as bad as ABCO, often there are issues of management…
Continue reading ›“Sunday storms blamed for I-85 semi collision,” shouted a headline in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution last Monday. The accompanying article stated that heavy rain …could be to blame for a tractor-trailer crash near Spaghetti Junction. Driving rain may have caused two tractor-trailers heading north on Interstate 85 to crash and overturn in DeKalb County late Sunday…
Continue reading ›Wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases involving commercial trucks are seldom just about a moment’s inattention. Usually we find there are issues of training, supervision and rule violations, though frankly with a local delivery truck in rush hour it is sometimes simpler than that. Lithonia truck driver Stephen Scott has been charged with second degree…
Continue reading ›Two people were killed this afternoon on I-985 southbound under Georgia 20 in Gwinnett County when the vehicle they occupied was rear-ended by a box truck, according to a report in the by Angel Brooks in the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Reportedly, traffic was slowed or stopped at the ramp from Ga. 20 to I-985 south…
Continue reading ›Plans for truck-only lanes on metro Atlanta expressways are among the aspirations cut from the Atlanta Regional Commission’s transportation long-range plans released this week. The ailing economy and strapped government budgets led the ARC to ax or defer beyond my likely lifetime: – optional toll lanes alongside I-75 and I-575 in Cobb and Cherokee counties…
Continue reading ›A gruesome week on the Atlanta freeways ended badly when a tractor trailer on I-75 near Windy Hill Road in Cobb County struck several vehicles, caught fire, and send an adult and a toddler in critical condition to area hospitals According to a report by Alexis Stevens in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, apparently a tractor-trailer struck…
Continue reading ›A fatal truck crash early Saturday morning on I-285 south of Atlanta highlighted an important safety rule governing interstate commercial trucking. According to an article by George Mathis and Ty Tagamihe of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the incident began when the tractor-trailer was involved in a minor collision with another large truck and the two trucks…
Continue reading ›Last night on I-575 in Cherokee County, an 18 wheeler tractor trailer hauling sod crashed at the bottom of an exit ramp from I-575 to Ga. 140 in Canton. The three-vehicle collision resulted in the death of one person, thus far not identified in the media. The tractor trailer crossed over the intersection and hit…
Continue reading ›As Georgia trucking lawyer who has lived in Sandy Springs for 26 years, I was saddened to hear recently that a woman was killed when she was hit by a 18 wheeler on I-285 near Riverwood High School where my son had his glory days in high school football. Rosario Velez, 44, was in her…
Continue reading ›Monday morning on Highway 49 near Milledgeville, a tractor trailer came over a hill and struck two other cars, then went into the opposite lane where it struck an oncoming vehicle. Rita Rose, 31, of Warthen, Georgia, was killed when the 18 wheeler struck her head on. Further details were not mentioned in early media…
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