Austin, TX, 11/17/05. A woman was killed Wednesday when a wheel and tire came off an 18-wheeler trailer, bounced over the median barrier on I-35, and landed on top of a Honda. The driver of the Honda was killed instantly. The truck involved is licensed to McRyan Hauling Inc. in Roanoke, TX, and was being…
Continue reading ›TEMPERANCE HILL, S.C. The driver of a tractor-trailer was charged Monday with drunken driving after slamming into a hayride and killing four people, including a toddler. Jake Davis Jr., 51, of Florence, was charged in the case. The South Carolina Highway Patrol reports Davis was driving the tractor-trailer that plowed into the rear of the…
Continue reading ›Kennebec County, Maine. A tractor trailer driver with a record 63 driving convictions, 23 license suspensions and involvement in a previous fatal crash, crashed into a car on I-95 in July, trapping the driver in her car for more than an hour. She died several days later. Under Maine law the trucker could not be…
Continue reading ›White Plains,NY, 9/14/05. A tractor trailer struck a car from the rear on Tappan Zee Bridge over the Hudson River, causing a fire that killed the driver of the car. A passenger in the car caught fire and escaped by throwing himself off the bridge into the river, where he was rescued. See CNN story.…
Continue reading ›One woman was killed and another seriously injured Thursday when a tractor-trailer plowed into a car that had broken down in Bartow County. The car was stalled in the emergency lane of northbound I-75 when a tractor-trailer bearing cargo veered into the lane, colliding with both cars. One woman was killed at the scene and…
Continue reading ›Marietta, GA, 9/6/05. The driver of a Honda Civil was killed early Tuesday morning when rearended by a tractor trailer on I-75 just south of the Ga. 5 exit. When you follow news of truck-car wrecks, the pattern of truckers running over cars in the middle of the night is a tragically monotonous pattern. See…
Continue reading ›BRISTOL, Ind., 8/22/05 A truck driver has been charged with four counts of reckless homicide in a chain-reaction crash that killed four people and injured seven on the Indiana Toll Road. The truck driver, Gil Stanislaw, 56, of Fox Lake, Ill., failed to slow down for a construction zone, police said. He was not injured…
Continue reading ›Peachtree City, GA, 8/26/05. A landscaping truck driven by Eric Hannah of Newnan, loaded with logs and towing a trailer with a Bobcat aboard, ran a red light in Peachtree City. It struck a vehicle driven by Tiffany Buysing of Peachtree City, then collided into a vehicle driven by Tabitha Kendall of Newnan, who was…
Continue reading ›Fort Payne, AL, 8/25/05. On I-59 in DeKalb County, Alabama, a flatbed tractor trailer clipped a car, causing it to leave the roadway and overturn several times. Shirley Middleton, 63, of Tunnel Hill, GA, was ejected and killed. her two sisters, Dorothy Correll of Dalton and Ira Dobson of Warner Robbins were seriously injured. The…
Continue reading ›Newnan, GA, 8/26/05. Wesley Williard McClure Jr., 48, an Alabama truck driver for Action Resources, Inc., allegedly collided with the rear of another tractor trailer, causing it to cross the grass median and collide head on with two other trucks. One man, who was burned beyond recognition, died at the scene. A second driver was…
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