Trucker Dies in Rear-End Collision on I-81 in Rockbridge County, VA
The man ran into the back of a stalled semi in the right-hand lane of the interstate near Lexington.
February 2, 2012
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Responding to Tractor-Trailer Crash, Deputy Injured in Head-On Collision
The sheriff’s deputy and the driver of another car wound up hospitalized with serious but not lfe-threatening injuries on December 7, 2011.
December 10, 2011
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70-Year-Old Woman Killed in NC Trucking Accident
The trucker was also injured in the crash that remains under investigation.
July 28, 2011
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Speeding Jeep Hits Tractor-Trailer: Driver and Passenger Injured
By Randy E. Appleton, Truck Accident Injury Attorney Any tractor-trailer driver will tell you they can’t stop their big rigs on a dime. Careless drivers who zip in and out from between large trucks on the interstate seem oblivious to this truth. In fact, two people were injured and traffic was tied up this morning [...]
January 26, 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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Firefighter Killed By Big Rig
By Rick Shapiro, Personal Injury Attorney When we hear in the news that a fire fighter has been killed, we expect it to be while in the line of duty, not in a car accident. So I was surprised and saddened to learn of the death of a Clifton Forge Firefighter, Mr. Ashley Weikle. Ashley [...]
December 6, 2010
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Slow Driver Causes Fiery Crash With Big Rig
By Richard Shapiro, Personal Injury Attorney Have you ever been driving behind a car that just refuses to hit the gas and go? A tractor-trailer driver had just that problem on I-95. Unfortunately the driver was going so slowly that it caused the big-rig to crash. Find out more. About the Editors: Shapiro, Cooper Lewis [...]
December 2, 2010
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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 [...]
January 8, 2010
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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 [...]
October 7, 2009
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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 tractor-trailer causing a rear-end [...]
September 14, 2009
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