Amherst, VA Man Dies When Logging Truck Crashes Into Him
Most residents of the area where Sparrow was killed knew that the intersection of Riverville Road and Piedmont Road was a “perfect mix to cause a fatality.”
October 15, 2011
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Reducing Truckers’ Drive Time, Shift Hours Can Protect Them and Others
Requiring more rest for truckers has worked to decrease the number of accidents caused by drowsy truckers. Nationwide statistics cited by the Wall Street Journal indicate that deaths in highway crashes involving large trucks dropped by more than 2,000 from 2007 to 2009.
July 8, 2011
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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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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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Passenger Killed, Driver Injured in North Carolina (NC) Truck Wreck
By Rick Shapiro, Trucking Accident Injury Attorney In McDowell County, near Linville, North Carolina (NC), a semi truck lost control, catapulted down a steep hill and wrecked, killing a passenger and shutting down the highway, the N.C. Highway Patrol said Monday. Find out why this fatal tractor-trailer accident happened. About the Editors: Shapiro, Cooper Lewis & Appleton is [...]
March 3, 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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Faulty Brakes May Have Caused Fatal Truck Accident
By Rick Shapiro, Personal Injury Attorney Over the weekend a tragic accident occurred when a coal-hauling truck overturned at a Massey Energy Co. mine site in West Virginia (WV), killing Charles Qualls. My thoughts go out to his family and I am sorry for their pain. It is always a terrible loss when a [...]
December 9, 2010
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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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Road Rage Driver Sentenced
By Rick Shapiro, Personal Injury Attorney These days, road rage seems to be an every day occurrence. Tractor-trailer drivers often bear the brunt of it from impatient or angry motorists. This time the road rage was more than angry words. An angry driver rammed a pickup truck with his vehicle on Interstate 70 in January, [...]
December 6, 2010
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Virginia Truck Driver Receives Compensation For Injury
By John Cooper, Personal Injury Attorney Many times when we hear of a big rig accident we often assume the truck driver is at fault. Sometimes truck drivers can also be victims of other’s negligence. In this case a hard working truck driver was in a crash that involved another tractor-trailer. However, the at-fault driver [...]
November 15, 2010
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