Articles Posted in Georgia truck accidents

The week of the Master’s golf tournament in Augusta, Georgia, was kicked off with two truck crashes on Monday, April 5th. In one, a woman was slowing to turn from Mike Padgett Highway onto 4-H Road when she was rear-ended by a speeding tractor trailer. She was reported to be in critical condition at Medical…

As a Georgia trucking accident attorney, I expect accidents involving truck drivers who are extremely fatigued, cheating on their driving hours, distracted, or impaired by medications or by amphetamines used to stay awake. I expect mechanical and maintenance issues. I just don’t expect interstate truck drivers to be drunk behind the wheel. I know and…

I first learned of a fatal log truck accident in the Savannah area last week when a Savannah newspaper reporter phoned me for background information on log truck regulations in Georgia. Police investigators in Garden City, Georgia, found 24 safety violations on a log truck that lost its load of logs, which crushed and killed…

Recently a Texas law firm has begun aggressively advertising for Georgia trucking accident cases through Google and Youtube, directly soliciting for Georgia cases even though that firm has no Georgia attorney and no Georgia office. To a consumer looking at the Texas firm’s web content, without reading the fine print, it looks like the firm…

A speeding tractor trailer crash on I-95 in Georgia rammed the rear of a Ross Township, Pennsylvania family’s van Sunday afternoon, killing a 3-year-old child. Sean Thornton, the youngest of three children of Daniel and Susan Thornton, was killed in his child car seat when a big rig slammed into the rear of the family…

A mom and her three preschool children were injured on December 4th in Spalding County, Georgia, when a J. B. Hunt tractor trailer ran a stop sign and hit the passenger side of the family van. According to the Georgia State Patrol spokesman, Cindy Lynn Fain, 38, of Hampton, was driving her Dodge minivan when…

A 25 year old Hahira woman was killed on October 20th when an 18 wheeler from Ohio ran a stop sign and her car crashed under the side of the trailer. Christian Jennings at WALB-TV in Albany, reported that Julie Tyler, who made pictures of school children as a photographer for LifeTouch Portraits, was killed…

While I am an Atlanta trucking trial attorney now, many years ago I was a child at Mentone, Alabama, frequently trekking to Chattanooga with my parents. Our usual route was through Dade County, separated from the rest of Georgia by Lookout Mountain,(historically known as “the independent state of Dade”). While our route was on old…

Crashes involving specialty trucks of various sorts — crane trucks, concrete mixer trucks, dump trucks, etc. — are often part of my trucking accident personal injury and wrongful death law practice in Georgia. Each type of specialty truck involves somewhat different issues. Yesterday in Walker County — near where I attended school for six years…

As a trucking trial attorney working statewide in Georgia, I often see how accident investigations go awry due to the trucking company’s rapid response to crashes, while the victims are unable to tell officers their side of the story and do not retain appropriate lawyers until months after important evidence has disappeared. Late Thursday night,…