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Witness to Fatal Semi Accident Disputes Official Account That Blames Car's Driver

Posted on December 31, 2009
An unusual article in the Alton Telegraph caught my eye as a southern Illinois trucking accident attorney. According to the Dec. 18 article, a witness to a fatal crash between a car and a tractor-trailer called the newspaper to dispute the official law enforcement account, which put the blame on the driver of the car...

Second Semi in Three Weeks Overturns on KC Bridge, Prompting Speed Concerns

Posted on December 18, 2009
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote here about a potentially quite serious accident in Kansas City, involving a tanker truck that overturned and spilled hydrochloric acid all over a bridge. As a Missouri tractor-trailer accident attorney, I was surprised to see that another truck has overturned in the same spot -- the Paseo Bridge over the Missouri River...

Arbitration Board Rules MoDOT Must Pay Family of Woman Who Died in Semi Crash

Posted on December 11, 2009
As a St. Louis tractor-trailer accident attorney, I noted with interest a recent article about financial penalties for the state in a fatal trucking crash. According to a Nov. 24 article from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, a three-person arbitration panel ruled that the Missouri Department of Transportation should have warned motorists about the traffic pileup that led to the death of 28-year-old Jemma Dant of St...

Kansas City Police Blame Speed on Trucking Accident That Spilled Acid on Highway

Posted on December 04, 2009
Our Missouri tractor-trailer accident lawyers noted a particularly dangerous accident that happened in Kansas City just after the Thanksgiving long weekend. The Kansas City Star reported Nov. 30 that a tanker truck crashed on Interstate 35 at 7 a.m. that day, causing a rollover and a spill of its contents -- hydrochloric acid...

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Federal Safety Board Says Cities May Not Make Rules About Hazmat Trucking Routes

Posted on November 27, 2009
As a St. Louis tanker truck accident lawyer, I was disappointed to read about a recent federal ruling that takes away local municipalities? ability to control how trucks use their roads. According to a Nov. 16 article from the Boston Globe, the National Transportation Safety Board ruled that the City of Boston was not legally entitled to order trucks carrying hazardous materials to use a route well outside of the city during daytime...

Defect on Grain Truck Kills Three and Sends Four to Hospital Near St. Joseph

Posted on November 17, 2009
As a Missouri trucking accident attorney, I was disappointed to read about an accident last week that took the lives of two members of Missouri?s Amish community. The St. Joseph News-Press reported Nov. 12 that three people died and four others were injured in a crash caused by a grain truck that lost a wheel outside of the northwestern Missouri town of Jamesport...

Trucking Accident Causes Explosion on Highway 40 and Death of Young Man

Posted on November 11, 2009
As a St. Louis semi truck accident attorney, I was disappointed to see that a young man died over this past weekend in a crash with a large truck. According to a Nov. 10 article from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch?s Suburban Journals, 20-year-old Kyle Lauders of O?Fallon died around 3:40 a...

Obama Administration Agrees to Reverse Increase in Truckers Allowable Hours of Driving

Posted on November 05, 2009
The length of truckers? on-the-road shifts is an important issue for Missouri big rig accident attorneys like me. Research and common sense show that driving for very long hours leaves drivers tired, and very tired drivers can get into serious accidents -- or resort to unsafe stimulants to stay awake...

Sweep Takes 77 Commercial Truck Drivers Off the Road for Drug and Alcohol Violations

Posted on October 30, 2009
Trucking regulations are an important part of my job as a St. Louis semi truck accident attorney. Trucking companies and truckers are required to follow certain safety rules, but after many accidents, an investigation shows that they outright ignored or bent those rules...

Federal Regulators May Require Device Requiring Truckers to Apply Brakes During Ignition

Posted on October 23, 2009
Because I am a Missouri trucking accident attorney, I keep an eye on any safety changes that come out of the National Transportation Safety Board, the federal agency that regulates interstate trucking. That?s how I came across an article on Today?sTrucking...

No Serious Injuries After Tractor-Trailer Overturns Onto School Bus on Kansas City Highway

Posted on September 29, 2009
As a Missouri semi truck accident attorney, I was happy to read that no one was seriously injured in an early-morning crash between a school bus and a commercial truck. According to a Sept. 21 article from TV station KMBC in Kansas City, it was just 6 a...

Missouri Truck Driver Faces 10 Counts of Negligent Homicide in Oklahoma Highway Crash

Posted on September 23, 2009
As a Missouri semi truck accident attorney, I was not surprised to see that the Oklahoma authorities have charged Donald Creed with ten counts of misdemeanor negligent homicide in June?s Interstate 40 tragedy. As I have written here before, Creed was driving a truck for Associated Wholesale Grocers of Kansas City when he failed to stop for traffic ahead, plowing into six stopped cars near the Okalahoma-Missouri border...

Lawrence County Missouri Police Searching for Semi Truck That Hit Car and Ran

Posted on September 18, 2009
Authorities in Lawrence County, Missouri, are still searching for a truck whose driver allegedly pushed another car into traffic, news station KY3 in Springfield reported Sept. 3. The station said the incident may have been caused by ?road rage? on the part of the truck?s driver...

Federal Government Approves Truck-Only Lanes Plan for Interstate 70 Through Missouri

Posted on September 11, 2009
The federal government has approved a plan to build truck-only lanes on Interstate 70 throughout the entire state of Missouri, the Kansas City Star reported Sept. 9. The Federal Highway Administration gave its approval to the plan by the Missouri Department of Transportation, which means the project is now eligible for federal funding...

Illinois Raises Highway Speed Limits for Big Rig Trucks in All Areas Outside Chicago

Posted on September 01, 2009
Illinois governor Pat Quinn quietly signed legislation allowing tractor-trailers to drive at the same speeds as cars in most areas of the state, the Southtown (Ill.) Star reported Aug. 25. The bill, which takes effect next Jan. 1, makes Illinois the 41st U...

Federal Judge Awards $18 Million to Couple After Trucking Accident Leaves Husband Severely Disabled

Posted on August 25, 2009
In what may be the first legal verdict to come out of the horrific Highway 40 tractor-trailer accident in 2008, a judge has awarded $18 million to a couple affected by the crash. According to an Aug. 25 article by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Mark and Cheryl Tiburzi sued truck driver Jeffrey Knight and his former trucking company, Holmes Transport Inc...

Federal Report Finds Hundreds of Trucking Companies Ordered to Shut Down Still Driving With New Names

Posted on August 18, 2009
More than 1,000 trucking companies have avoided a federal regulator?s order to shut down and pay fines for safety violations by simply changing their names, the Associated Press reported July 30. The revelation comes from a study by the Government Accountability Office of ?motor carriers? -- trucking and bus companies -- regulated by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration...

Study Finds Truckers Have 23 Times Greater Risk of Crashing When Text Messaging

Posted on August 05, 2009
A new study by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute confirms what many Missouri truck accident attorneys have known for ages: Text messaging substantially raises a semi truck driver?s chance of a serious accident. According to an article published by the New York Times July 27, the VTTI found that text messaging by truckers raised the chances of a crash or a near-crash by 23 times...

St. Louis Women Nearly Crushed by Semi-Truck's Load: A Tractor

Posted on July 17, 2009
Last week, I saw a truly bizarre accident on TV station KTVI (Fox 2). On July 8, on Highway D in St. Charles County, two women were almost crushed inside their car by a Caterpillar grader that was being transported by a flatbed semi truck in the next lane...

Southern Illinois Woman Suffers Minor Injuries After Truck Allegedly Ran Her Off Road

Posted on July 10, 2009
Two women are uninjured and another suffered only minor injuries after a crossover collision, The Southern reported July 6. Illinois state police said Kyra Rivera of Potter Springs, Georgia was driving south when she was forced off the road by a semitrailer truck...

Woman and Daughter Injured in Crash when Tractor-Trailer Failed to Yield

Posted on June 26, 2009
A few days ago, I saw an article in the Marshfield Mail about a woman and her daughter who got into a wreck on I-44 because a tractor-trailer had failed to yield the right of way. Apparently in order to avoid colliding with the big rig as it unexpectedly moved forward, the woman swerved and ended up hitting a guardrail...

Missouri Pedestrian 200 Feet from Road Struck by Overturned Big Rig When Driver Failed to Stop

Posted on June 19, 2009
A tractor-trailer truck recently overturned in Shelby County, injuring a man nearby. Overturning is a particularly deadly hazard with commercial trucks -- a study by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration called it the most common large truck driver fatality accident type...

Road Check 2009 Cites Almost 200 Big Rig Drivers Nationwide With More Than 1,400 Violations

Posted on June 10, 2009
Last week, an annual campaign dubbed Road Check 2009 was held at more than 1,000 locations across North America. Sponsored by the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA), the inspections took place from Tuesday, June 2 through Thursday, June 4. Over these three days, state law enforcement agencies conducted intensive inspections of safety equipment and practices aboard 18-wheel vehicles...

Truck Driver Runs Light, Severely Injures Illinois Woman

Posted on June 04, 2009
A few days ago I came across an article in the St. Clair Record about a particularly disturbing southern Illinois trucking accident. On May 22, Aisha Wright filed suit in St. Clair County Circuit Court against Reithoffer Shows truck driver Tina Hales...

Illinois Considers Raising Highway Speed Limit for Commercial Trucks

Posted on May 27, 2009
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn is considering whether to increase the speed limit for semi trucks from 55 mph to 65 mph, the Bloomington Pantagraph reported May 18. Both houses of the Illinois Legislature passed the measure, but the governor can still veto it...

State Where Trucking Accident Lawsuit Is Heard Will Determine Whether Family Can Recover Damages

Posted on May 20, 2009
A story in the Joplin Globe recently caught my eye because it involves legal issues very important to Missouri trucking accident lawyers like me. The story centers on a family of four from Joplin who were killed when their car, which was stopped for a red light, was struck by a tractor-trailer and burst into flames...

Kansas to Follow Missouri?s Lead by Installing Highway Median Guard Cables to Prevent Serious Trucking Accidents

Posted on May 15, 2009
After a series of fatal head-on semi truck accidents, the Kansas Department of Transportation plans to install highway median guard cables in certain areas of the state, the Kansas City Star reported May 11. The barriers are thick, strong metal cables that divide lanes of traffic moving in opposite directions...

Truck Safety Coalition Launches Campaign to Stop Increase in Legal Size and Weight of Large Trucks

Posted on May 08, 2009
A nonprofit group lobbying for stricter safety regulations on large tractor-trailers launched a campaign May 4 to ensure that trucks don?t get any larger. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch?s Along for the Ride blog said the Truck Safety Coalition is opposing a proposal in Congress that would increase the legal limit for how much trucks may weigh...

Four-Vehicle Southern Illinois Semi Truck Accident Kills One Trucker, Injures Another

Posted on May 01, 2009
A chain-reaction crash in Southern Illinois left one trucker dead and another in the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, The Southern reported April 21. The accident happened on Interstate 57 in Franklin County, between Benton and Sesser. According to police, trucker Lawrence Rich failed to slow down in time for stopped traffic in front of him...

Truck Overturns and Catches Fire in Semi Truck Crash on I-70 Near Columbia

Posted on April 23, 2009
Wet roads sent four people to the hospital and closed Interstate 70 for hours April 20, the Columbia Daily Tribune reported that day. Luckily, no one was killed in the three-vehicle accident, which began when one eastbound car hydroplaned and slammed into another...

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