Tractor-trailer Jackknifes into Van Filled with Disabled Passengers Killing Four
by Jim Lewis
Although the roads and highways along Virginia’s I-81, I-64 or I-66 have not reported any recent bad tractor trailer accidents, there was one in Springfield, Ohio today. A tractor-trailer jackknifed on icy road conditions and slammed into a van filled with disabled passengers that were being transported. The big rig swerved into oncoming [...]
January 8, 2010
Tags: big rig, dead, fatality, I-70, I-81, injured, injury, jackknife, killed, lawyer, Lewis, Ohio, tractor trailer, van, Virginia Posted in: National Trucking Accident/Injury Topics 
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Deadly I-95 Tractor Trailer Crash near Dunn, North Carolina Kills Child
by John Cooper
A tractor trailer crash on I-95 just outside of Dunn, North Carolina (N.C.) has tragically left a 6 year old child dead. In a sad chain of events an SUV in which the child was riding collided with an 18 wheeler on a stretch of Interstate 95 in Harnett County, North Carolina (N.C.).
In [...]
December 27, 2009
Tags: 18 wheeler, big rig, child, collision, Cooper, crash, fatality, I-95, injury lawyer, Johnston County, North Carolina, over-corrected, SUV, 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
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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
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
