Articles Posted in Truck Wreck of the Day

Fortunately no one was injured when the driver of an 18-wheeler mail truck fell asleep on I-75 near Macon at 3:30 AM, over-corrected when he woke with a start, and went over an embankment.  However, two of three northbound lanes were closed several hours and the GA DOT will have to replace a guard rail. …

Yesterday in Margate, Florida, a woman sitting on a bench at a bus stop was when an 18-wheeler crashed into the bus stop and trapped her dead body under tons of twisted metal and a maze of downed power lines. According to police and media reports, a flatbed tow truck was heading east on U.S.…

Las Vegas, NV, 11/17/06.   A tractor trailer hauling paper products may have been going 60 mph when it slammed into a stop-and-go line of cars proceeding in two lanes through a construction zone on I-15.  Four people were killed, five people were hospitalized.  The truck driver, identified as Milson Sabino Oliveira Filho, 51, was examined…

Cumming, GA, 7/4/06. Dennis Robert Ingram, Jr. , 31, of Ball Ground, Georgia, was killed instantly when Henry Wayne Parham, 32, a truck driver from Valley Head, Alabama, collided with his pickkup truck about 4:30 A.M.  Parham was arrested after he asked to use the phone at a  Subway store less than a mile from…

Gregg County, TX, 6/27/06. An alarmed driver who saw a weaving tractor trailer run other cars off the road was calling 911 to report the erratic trucker when she saw it crash into a pickup truck, knocking the smaller vehicle into opposing lanes where it was stuck was a second semi. The weaving truck driver…

Philadelphia, PA, 6/27/06.On I-95 near the Philadelphia airport, a trash hauler truck crossed the median at 7 AM, crashed into other cars, and set off a chain reaction of other accidents. The truck driver was killed, as were a mother and child in a vehicle he struck. The trash truck was registered to Mike Spano…

One person was killed in a truck-car wreck on Interstate 85 southbound late Friday. As it changed lanes, a tractor-trailer moving from the far left lane to the far right lane at Jimmy Carter Boulevard sideswiped a Mercury.  The Mercury came to a complete stop in one of the highway’s through lanes, and a Toyota…

Topeka, KS.  The driver of a semi truck crossed the median and collided with another tractor trailer about 1:00 a.m. Monday morning.  Both vehicles caught fire and both drivers were killed at the scene. The most likely hypothesis in this scenario is that the driver who crossed the median fell asleep.  Investigation should include examination…

Atlanta, 6/7/06. Randy Carnes, 47, of Winston, Georgia, was killed in a dramatic crash on the shoulder of I-285 just north of Cascade Road.  Mr. Carnes was a mechanic for UPS working on a UPS truck that was stalled on the shoulder of the highway.  A tractor trailer driver apparently fell asleep and drifted out…

Perry, GA, 6/6/06.  A Perry man injured when rear-ended by a tractor-trailer on Ga. 247 died Tuesday night at a Macon hospital.  Duane Rothe, 55, of Perry, suffered a serious head trauma and internal injuries in the 9:50 a.m. accident, Houston County sheriff’s Cpl. Sean Alexander said. Rothe was transported to The Medical Center of…