Truck Accidents
What Causes Truck Rollover Accidents?
Truck rollover accidents can be devastating for the truck driver and other drivers involved in the crash. A truck that has turned on its side can no longer be controlled by the driver. It may slide into other vehicles and...
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How Can Trucking Companies Prevent Accidents on the Road?
Every year, thousands of victims lose their lives and suffer catastrophic injuries in devastating commercial truck accidents. As victims try to pick up the pieces and recover from an 18-wheeler accident, an investigation may find that the collision could have...
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What Are the Dangers of Truck Driver Fatigue?
Commercial truck drivers have a responsibility to protect others who share the road by preventing truck accidents as much as possible. They must operate their large trucks with care and in accordance with all federal trucking laws. This includes hours-of-service...
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How to Prove Truck Driver Negligence
Commercial truck accidents are often devastating for the occupants of the smaller vehicle. A collision between a large truck and a passenger car can be catastrophic or fatal for the latter. Many accidents involving 18-wheelers are caused by careless and...
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How Is Fault Determined in a Commercial Truck Accident?
Large commercial trucks are incredibly dangerous. If not properly maintained and driven with the utmost care, large trucks can cause catastrophic and deadly traffic accidents. If you get injured in a commercial truck accident in Pennsylvania, fault will need to...
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Multi-vehicle crash on Pennsylvania Turnpike kills 5 and injures 60 in Mount Pleasant
A horrific crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike killed 5 and injured approximately 60 people according to reports. The accident happened early this morning at milepost 86 westbound between the Donegal and New Stanton exits in Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County. Officials...
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Tractor trailer causes horrific 10 car accident at dangerous intersection in Churchill
Emergency crews from several areas were on the scene of a horrific accident in Churchill this afternoon. News outlets reported a crash involving a tractor-trailer and multiple other vehicles on William Penn Highway (Route 22) and Rodi Road in Churchill. ...
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Bucket truck overturns killing local man
A Penn Power worker was killed on Sunday afternoon when the bucket truck he was in overturned and he fell onto the roadway. The accident happened in the 300 block of Dutch Ridge Road in Wayne Township. Authorities reported that...
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Speed kills: road safety advocates cite truck-related concern
Not going to happen. The worst fears collectively held by a broad coalition of road safety advocates across the country are about to realize, with a commercial truck-related rule they had hoped to see implemented before the end of the...
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An overview of danger zones around commercial trucks
Commercial trucks represent a small portion of overall traffic but an outsize portion of car accidents with fatalities. In 2014, 3,660 people were killed in an accident involving 18-wheeler tractor-trailers. The reason for these increased for a variety of reasons...
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Trucks may be required to slow down in the name of safety
The U.S. Department of Transportation has proposed that trucks weighing more than 26,000 pounds be limited to a certain speed on the highway-- likely somewhere between 60 and 68 miles per hour. The proposal is intended to save lives and...
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Tired truckers find relief in parking app
Willie Nelson couldn't wait to get back on the road again. But for truckers who just logged a long day behind the wheel, sometimes all they want is a parking spot. Increasingly a good parking spot is hard to find...
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