News tagged with 'Tractor-Trailer Accidents'

The Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) has begun its investigation into the foggy and smoky conditions that led 70 cars to pileup on Interstate 4, and four dead. Lawsuits have already been filed and more are expected. 

A Virginia jury awarded $1.8 million last week to the family of a woman killed in a horrific tractor-trailer accident. Martin Andrews was driving his truck in the rain along state Route 47, a two-lane road, near Farmville in 2001 when he suddenly came upon a line of stopped vehicles waiting for a car to make a left tu

One person was killed and another suffered minor injuries Wednesday night when their tractor-trailers collided on eastbound Interstate 70 in Missouri. Terry D. Tanner, 46, of South Dakota was traveling near Boonville when his truck was struck in the rear by another tractor-trailer driven by Nancy Kosier, 36. Tan

A Kansas teenager was killed Tuesday when his vehicle collided with a tractor-trailer outside of Linn. Jeremy Lee Oelschlager, 16, of Palmer, Kansas, was reportedly stopped at a stop sign when he pulled his 1996 Dodge truck onto K-15 highway. A tractor-trailer heading westbound slammed into the left side of Oelschlag

The family of a Virginia woman killed in an automobile accident recently settled its claim with the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) for $1.76 million. Carla Bridget Cox-McCoy, 33, was driving her pickup truck eastbound on Interstate 64 in Henrico County on August 3, 2001 when a USPS tractor-trailer heading westbound crosse

A Tennessee jury awarded $6.65 million in damages last week to the mother of a 17-year-old girl who died in a tractor-trailer accident. Lindsey Garretson was killed August 8, 2000 when a truck driven by Stuart Foy slammed into the back of her car on Interstate 40. Foy failed to slow the tractor-trailer, owned by KLLM

An Illinois jury awarded $63.4 million recently to the victims of a horrific auto accident involving a tractor-trailer dump truck. On July 29, 2000, Robert Walton, an employee of Carter's Excavating and Grading in Chicago, accidentally left the 80,000-pound dump hauler section of the truck he was driving upright inste

The family of a man who died after his motorcycle collided with a tractor-trailer settled with the semi driver's employer for $1 million. The twenty-six-year-old man was driving north on a Fresno, California highway when the tractor-trailer, heading south, attempted to make a U-turn, causing the man to crash into the

In the wake of recent reports that Florida's highways rank among the Nation's most dangerous, two women were tragically killed this week in a car accident on Interstate 75. Amber Chambers, 20, was driving her sister Emily, 18, to a house in Ruskin around 7:00 p.m. Sunday night when Chambers suddenly slowed her Nissan

Mountain Valley Express, a California trucking company, recently settled a lawsuit filed by the family of a man killed when one of the company's semi-trucks collided with the man's automobile, killing him instantly. Edwin Torrey was decapitated during the March 8, 2001 accident when the Mountain Valley tractor trailer

What should have been a joyous wedding day turned into a nightmare for one Florida family. Barbara Gould, the 62-year-old grandmother of the bride, was killed outside the wedding hall when a 14-ton Mack truck collided with the car she was riding in. 18-year-old Christina Hatch was driving Gould and her 14-year-old br