In June 2011, a 22-year-old mother was parked on the side of Interstate 10 near Las Cruces, New Mexico. Her GMC pickup truck had broken down and the young mother was waiting for help. In the vehicle with her were her 4-year-old daughter and 19-month-old son. The mother had set flares outside the truck as…
A crash between a farm truck and a car in Isle of Wight County, Virginia (VA), killed the two occupants of the smaller vehicle. The deadly head-on collision happened on U.S. Route 460/Windsor Boulevard near the intersection with Yellowhammer Road. Virginia State Police responded to the wreck at around 2:15 pm on March…
On Sept. 8, 2017, at approximately 4:30 in the afternoon, 39-year-old Erin Kaplan was driving her Audi station wagon on Evergreen Mills Road in Leesburg. In the vehicle with her were her son, two daughters, and her mother. As Ms. Kaplan was driving, her vehicle was suddenly slammed into by a 22,000-pound food truck when…
Passenger vehicles and tractor-trailers are required to share the road, even though it can be intimidating for vehicle drivers to suddenly have one of those massive vehicles barreling along in the lane next to them. Tragically, too many of those tractor trailers are involved in truck accidents that result in fatalities. In one study conducted…
Virginia State Police are investigating a head-on collision between a tractor-trailer and a 2000 Toyota sedan. The crash occurred on Virginia 130 in Amherst County, near Ambrose Rucker Road and East Perch Road early Monday morning and resulted in the road being closed for almost seven hours. According to a statement issued by law enforcement,…