Truck Accidents
FMCSA looking to increase insurance limits for truck accidents
Truck accidents can cause severe and catastrophic injuries to victims. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is looking to increase the insurance minimum requirements on trucking carriers. The current minimum was set in 1985 and is $750,000. Because truck...
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Truck accident on I-70 in Washington County kills one
A truck accident in Washington County, Pennsylvania has killed an Ohio truck driver. In the westbound lanes of I-70 between Taylorstown and Claysville, the deceased truck driver lost control going around a bend. He stopped his truck in the middle...
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Butler County school bus and tanker truck accident
A truck accident in Butler County, Pennsylvania injured two people this afternoon. A school bus rear ended an empty tanker truck on Route 422 in Summit Township. This tragic accident caused the driver of the bus to be taken by...
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Fatal truck accident on Route 65 in Ambridge
A truck accident this morning in Ambridge, Pennsylvania along Route 65 between a tractor-trailer and a car has killed a 49 year old Rochester, Pennsylvania woman. The accident occurred at the intersection of Route 65 and 4th Street in Beaver...
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Washington County woman killed in truck accident
A truck accident caused the death of a woman in Washington County, Pennsylvania on January 3, 2015. A Monongahela woman was a passenger in a vehicle on Route 136 in Somerset Township when the vehicle was hit by a truck....
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Truck accident closes westbound lane of I-80
A truck accident between two tractor-trailers closed one of the westbound lanes of Interstate 80 last Wednesday. This accident happened in the early morning in Venango County, Pennsylvania. This incident in Emlenton, Pennsylvania occurred when one of the drivers swerved...
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Report proposes ban on hands-free phones for commercial vehicle operators
Distracted driving, most readers know, is a major problem on our roadways. According to distraction.gov, over 3,300 people were killed in distracted driving accidents in 2011 and 2012, and an estimated 387,000 were injured in 2011. Distracted driving is a...
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Truck accident leaves three Amish passengers dead
A truck accident in York County, Pennsylvania, between a van and a cement truck, claimed three lives Monday. The three passengers were members of the Amish community and were being driven in a van, when the van pulled out in...
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Truck accident shuts down Interstate 81
A truck accident involving six vehicles caused the closing of the northbound lanes on Interstate 81 in Silver Spring Township, Pennsylvania. This incident occurred near mile marker 55.5, which is located south of Exit 57 in Cumberland County."A vehicle in the...
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Dallas W. Hartman, P.C. lawyers learn about truck accidents
To win a truck accident case, lawyers need to be able to combine knowledge stretching across many fields. Those fields include engineering, truck systems, driver training, regulation and industry practices, as well as the law. Because truck accidents often result...
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Walmart puts blame on Morgan, others for not wearing seat belts
This past Monday, attorneys for Walmart in the case of the truck accident involving actor/comedian Tracy Morgan and several of his acquaintances, said on behalf of Walmart that the one death and several injuries that occurred as a result of...
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Trucking competition focuses on safety
Trucking safety is an important issue since it impacts so many people. Each year trucks cover close to 400 billion miles in the process of hauling 9 billion tons of freight. Because drivers of vehicles other than trucks share the...
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