Top Ten Safe Summer Driving Tips From Commercial Truck Drivers
Maintaining a constant speed can reduce fuel costs by 30 percent and give you more time to react to changing road conditions and mistakes by other motorists.
July 1, 2011
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Tractor-Trailer Driver Awarded $23M for Brain Injuries Suffered in Rear-End Collision
The attorneys who represented the injured trucker shepherded the case through two trials over several years and also presented strong evidence from medical, psychological and traffic experts that defense attorneys were unable to refute or discredit.
April 18, 2011
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Wrongful Death in Semi Crash Results in $5M Settlement
The truck driver was cited by police for disobeying a signal at a four-way intersection with stop signs at each corner. He may also have been speeding before the wreck.
March 3, 2011
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Five Killed, 10 Injured When Tractor-Trailer Slams Into Stopped Cars in NC
Semis and 18-wheelers take much longer to stop than smaller vehicles, so it is important that the people behind the wheel of large commercial trucks remain alert and responsive to changes in road conditions and traffic flow that can lead to accidents in which people get killed or hospitalized.
February 23, 2011
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Head-On Smith Mountain Lake Collision Causes Fiery Wreck Between Tractor-Trailers
By Rick Shapiro, Truck Accident Injury Attorney As a personal injury attorney, I, unfortunately, understand how fragile life can be. More and more I am seeing cases of head-on collisions where one vehicle will lose control and cross the median, crashing head-on into an unsuspecting motorist. Just last month, two tractor-trailers collided killing both drivers. [...]
February 3, 2011
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Fatal Triple Tractor-Trailer Wreck Kills One, Injures Others
By John Cooper, Truck Accident Injury Attorney We’ve all seen chain reaction crashes on the interstate and they usually start when one person loses control and others are unable to stop in time. This time it wasn’t cars that stacked up like toys, it was tractor-trailers. The tragic and terrible accident has left one person dead and [...]
January 31, 2011
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Washington DC Head-On Collision Kills Two
By Rick Shapiro, Personal Injury Attorney A head-on collision can affect even the most seasoned professional driver. In northwest Washington D.C. a wrong way driver has killed two people, reports police. The accident occurred on Canal Road near Clark Place early Friday morning. The at-fault driver lost control of his Jaguar. The vehicle slid across the road and [...]
January 18, 2011
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Distracted Driving – Texting, Chatting, Eating — Takes a Deadly Toll
Federal, state and industry efforts to prevent and crack down on distracted driving by proposing and adopting bans on texting by drivers and banning hand held cell phone use behind the wheel have made a dent in the problem. Those measures can only go so far.
January 9, 2011
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Tractor-Trailer Hits Virginia (VA) State Trooper Conducting a Traffic Stop
The driver of the tractor-trailer has been charged under Virginia’s so-called “move over law,” which requires the driver of any car, truck, bus, motorcycle or other vehicle to both slow down and, when possible, change lanes when they see a police officer or public safety worker stopped or working on the shoulder of a road.
September 24, 2010
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North Carolina (NC) Police Fed up with Careless Truck Drivers, Create Operation Road Watch
By: Randy Appleton, Trucking Injury Attorney Aggressive driving and unsecured loads are just a few of the things that North Carolina State Troopers are trying to protect motorists from. Find out how they plan to do it. Post Footer automatically generated by Add Post Footer Plugin for wordpress.
September 4, 2010
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