At Pine Bluff, Arkansas, on Saturday afternoon, a Mississippi tractor trailer driver crossed the highway center line and killed a mother and four children. Those killed were LaKetria Wells, 26, of Monticello, a prison guard at the state Cummins Unit, and her children, LaKiyah Wells, 7; Kaleb Jarrell Stokes, 5; Keyshon Wells, 4; and LaKayla…
Continue reading ›Lawrenceville, GA, 7/12/07 – A tractor trailer driver who admitted to police that he had fallen asleep at the wheel rear-ended a Honda at Georgia 316 and US 29. All four Mexican immigrant occupants of the Honda were killed. They were identified as Juan Gutierrez Medina, 36, Andres Juan Gutierrez, 19, Virginia Jimenez-Cabrera, 38, and…
Continue reading ›Murfreesboro, TN, 6/29/07. Robert Franklin Hankins and Betty Hankins, 68, both of Commerce, GA, were killed when their pickup truck was struck head-on by a semi-truck driven by Arthur Trollinger, a driver for Cooper Mobile Homes in Lewisburg, TN. According to the Tennessee Highway Patrol, about 12:20 PM the left front tire of the eastbound…
Continue reading ›6/25/07, Berea, KY. A Tennessee UPS truck driver was killed when at 2:50 AM a tanker truck carrying liquid sulfur, driven by a Georgia truck driver, had a tire blew out, hit concrete median barrier, went airborne and crossed over intooncoming lanes. The tanker hit a UPS tractor trailer head-on. The UPS driver Johnny l.…
Continue reading ›On 6/24/07, a tractor trailer jackknifed on I-20 near Oxford, Alabama, crossed the median, and crashed head-on into a Honda occupied by an assistant football and basketball coach and three team members from North Oconee (GA) High School on the way home from a basketball camp at Jacksonville State University. Coach Shawn Smith was killed. …
Continue reading ›LANCASTER, PA, 6/26/07 – A tractor-trailer driver who did not notice slower-moving traffic in front of her caused the fiery seven-vehicle crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike that killed three people from New Jersey. The tractor-trailer hit six passenger cars and then burst into flames, police said. The dead were all in the first car hit,…
Continue reading ›In Los Angeles last night, this big rig with a vehicle jammed underneath it slid down an embankment off the 60 freeway. A unidentified victim was dead at the scene. The cause of the crash was not revealed in early reports. With my son planning to enroll in college in the LA area in a…
Continue reading ›At 3:41 AM on Sunday, a tanker truck crashed and burned at the intersection of three freeways, causing the collapse of an overpass. This will likely snarl commutes for hundreds of thousands of people for months until repairs can be completed. California officials are urging residents to shift to public transit and telecommuting due to…
Continue reading ›Three people were killed and two injured this morning when a state vehicle struck the end of logs protruding from the rear of a log truck in Folkston, some of which entered the vehicle passenger area. Timber hauling is governed by the Georgia Forest Products Trucking Rules. Any load that projects more than four feet…
Continue reading ›Fri., 3/9/07, Calhoun, GA. In a scene reminiscent of the 1982 Paul Newman movie, “The Verdict,” the jury after three hours of deliberation Thursday afternoon sent a note to the judge asking if they were limited by the amount the plaintiff asked for. In closing argument I had asked for a verdict of approximately…
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