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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…

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.…

Chattanooga-based U.S. Express has announced that it is now equipping its trucks with “smart cruise.” According to an article in The Chattanoogan, this technology automatically keeps other drivers at a safe distance because it is able to detect vehicles in front of the truck. When a truck driver comes too close to a car, it…

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…

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…

All our work on individual catastrophes seems so small in the wake of the devastation that Hurricane Katrina inflicted upon New Orleans and much of Louisiana and Mississippi. It appears that thousands have died from the effects of the storm, and thousands more may die from disease in the flooded city of New Orleans. Many,…

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…

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…

Last year, the Tenneessee Supreme Court, in Blair v. West Town Mall, adopted the “mode of operation” doctrine in premises liability cases, holding that “that a premises owner had constructive notice of the presence of a dangerous condition by showing a pattern of conduct, a recurring incident, or a general or continuing condition indicating the…

Purdue University researchers may have isolated the substance most responsible for the tissue damage that follows initial spinal cord injury, a discovery that could also improve treatments for a host of other neurodegenerative conditions. A research team led by Riyi Shi (REE-yee SHEE) has found that a chemical called acrolein, a known carcinogen, is present…