Any trucking company that handles goods that are involved in interstate commerce must comply with Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations. Carriers from Canada and Mexico are included in these regulations. Some of these regulations require the trucking company to save documents that may prove liability in a collision. This would make most tractor-trailer cases all…
Around 4:30 am Monday morning a tractor-trailer was headed on interstate 140 when the driver lost control of the truck and wrecked in New Hanover County near Wilmington, North Carolina (NC). Local Wilmington police and the North Carolina (NC) highway patrol reported that the driver was speeding as he approached the exit off interstate 140…
Onslow County was witness to a deadly wreck involving 6 vehicles including a logging truck that happened just before noon on highway 258. The exact location was just past Pony Farm Road and emergency responders indicated that the weather may have contributed to the tragic accident. This multi-car crash involved a log truck and five…
In what appears to be a role reversal North Carolina firefighters needed to be rescued as their truck overturns on busy highway as the miss the turn. This unusual traffic accident happened near Raleigh, North Carolina.According to several media sources, it was reported that three people were hurt, with no one seriously injured at the…
I spend a lot of time looking at information about truck collisions involving injuries and death as part of my job as editor of the Norfolk InjuryBoard website. The following are some of the scarier numbers that arise about tractor-trailer accidents: 1. In 2007, the country had crashes that involved over 136,000 large trucks and…