Fire Truck Accident Apparently Caused by SUV Kills Two Firefighters in Rocky Mount, VA
Firefighters — and police, EMTs and other emergency responders — put their lives on the line every day at accident scenes, fires and disaster sites. They accept that risk on our behalf. Arriving where their services are most needed should be the least of their worries.
July 28, 2010
Tags: accident, Appleton, car, crash, death, fire truck, Roanoke, Rocky Mount, rollover, SUV, truck crash Posted in: Virginia (VA) Trucking Injury/Accidents Topics 
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The Steps We Take to Build Your Personal Injury or Wrongful Death Case
Our firm has been asked to look into what initially appeared to be a mysterious death or loss of life in a commercial truck accident. Sometimes, family members have only suspicion but not much hard evidence. They ask us to uncover the truth about what caused the accidental or unexpected death of their loved one.
Our [...]
June 28, 2010
Tags: accident, crash, death, injuries, injury, rail, railroad, truck, wreck, wrongful, wrongful death Posted in: National Trucking Accident/Injury Topics No Comments
How to Stay Safe from Tractor Trailers While Driving Your Car
By Emily Brannon
A truck driver of a semi trailer tractor is a trained professional who has spent a good deal of money and time going through training and testing so that they can obtain their commercial driver’s license (CDL). The requirements are quite rigorous as compared to earning a typical driver’s license. However, consideration has [...]
December 9, 2009
Tags: 18 wheeler, accident, big rig, crash, death, equipment failure, injury, injury lawyer, jack knife, semi-truck, Shapiro, tractor trailer Posted in: Virginia (VA) Trucking Injury/Accidents Topics No Comments
Fatal Tractor Trailer Crash in Nelson County Virginia Kills One on Hwy 5
By Rick Shapiro
Alger H. Fleming, 66 of Amherst County died after being hit by a tractor trailer along Va. Hwy 56 in Nelson County, Va. Fleming was driving east on Va. 56 at around 4:35 a.m. when he came up on a large tree that had fallen across the road near the Tye River Bridge. [...]
November 24, 2009
Tags: accident, crash, death, fatality, injury lawyer, Nelson County, Shapiro, tractor trailer, Tyre River Bridge, Virginia, Virginia 56 Posted in: Virginia (VA) Trucking Injury/Accidents Topics No Comments
Bereaved Albemarle County Family Awarded $5.25M in Tractor Trailer Death Lawsuit
by John Cooper
An Albemarle County jury awarded a bereaved family $5.25 million for the loss of their precious 16 year old daughter who had been killed last year when a tractor trailer ran a red light and slamming into the car she was driving. The jury’s verdict was decided with only 3 hours of [...]
November 16, 2009
Tags: Aichs, award, claim, Cooper, death, fatality, injury lawyer, killed, lawsuit, tractor trailer, Tractor-trailer crash, Truck accident Posted in: Virginia (VA) Trucking Injury/Accidents Topics No Comments
Fatal Tractor Trailer Wreck in Newington, Virginia Kills One on I-95
by Emily Mapp Brannon
The traffic on the northbound lanes of I-95 in Newington, VA was shut down last week when an accident involving a passenger vehicle and a tractor trailer caused the death of at least one person and injured two others. Officials have stated that a Hyundai and a tractor trailer were involved in [...]
November 12, 2009
Tags: 18 wheeler, accident, crash, death, fatality, I-95, injury, injury lawyer, killed, Mapp Brannon, Newington, tractor trailer, Virginia Posted in: Virginia (VA) Trucking Injury/Accidents Topics No Comments
Virginia Beach Man Killed as Passenger in Fed Ex Truck Roll-Over
by Richard N. Shapiro
Shapiro, Cooper, Lewis & Appleton
It what can only be described as being in the wrong place at the wrong time, tragically a passenger riding along in a Fed Ex truck was killed last week when the vehicle overturned on Fentress Airfield Road. Virginia Beach Police have identified the victim of this accident [...]
October 7, 2009
Tags: death, fatality, Fed Ex, injured, injury lawyers, killed, over-correction, Shapiro, Truck accident, truck crash, truck roll-over, Virginia Beach Posted in: Virginia (VA) Trucking Injury/Accidents Topics No Comments
Deadly Tractor Trailer Crash on I-85 in Davidson County Kills Car Driver
In a manner not uncommon to most tractor trailer wrecks, one person has been left dead when an 18 wheeler smashed into the back of a car on southbound Interstate 85. According to authorities, it appears that the car had stopped in the southbound lanes near Exit 91 in Davidson County.
The big rig [...]
September 23, 2009
Tags: car crash, Davidson County, death, I-85, injury lawyer, killed, Mapp Brannon, semi-truck, tractor trailer, truck crash Posted in: Virginia (VA) Trucking Injury/Accidents Topics No Comments
U.S. Senate Vote Approaches for Destructive and Deadly Overweight Truck Exemption
There is a special interest provision that has been quietly inserted in federal transportation budget bill without public input or congressional hearings despite a federal agency’s dire warnings. What is being ignored is the fact that they will be allowing 100,000 pound trucks on Maine’s Roads and Bridges.
Without heeding the warnings of [...]
September 15, 2009
Tags: Appleton, death, federal agency, injury, injury lawyers, overweight truck exemption, tractor trailer, U.S. Senate, vote Posted in: Virginia (VA) Trucking Injury/Accidents Topics No Comments
Virginia’s Southbound I-85 Closed for 6 Hours after Fatal Tractor -Trailer Wreck
In a fiery big rig crash, a tractor-trailer driver was killed on Interstate 81 in Roanoke County and has been identified as an Arkansas man. The Virginia State Police identified the driver as Danny Ray Parks, 47, of Batesville, Arkansas.
The victim, Bates, crashed his tractor-trailer into the back of another [...]
September 14, 2009
Tags: 18 wheeler wreck, death, fatality, I-85, injured, injury lawyers, interstate 85, killed, Shapiro, Tractor-trailer crash, Virginia Posted in: Virginia (VA) Trucking Injury/Accidents Topics No Comments
