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SUV-Dump Truck Head-On Crash Kills Four People
SUV’s are large vehicles compared to most other cars on the road, and one of their advantages when accidents occur is the inherent advantage of a higher and larger body. As a result, SUV’s tend to survive crashes at a better rate than sedans, provided they don’t roll over. However, a tragic reminder was served [...]
Continue reading...Accident Outside Seattle Post-Intelligencer Office Causes Serious Injuries
5. May 2009
An accident occurred just outside the Seattle Post-Intelligencer building on Friday morning, leaving one man with serious injuries to his legs. It was the third such accident within the last three months outisde the same building. Investigators are still trying to obtain an understanding of what happened, but the injured truck driver is expected to [...]
Continue reading...Truck Accident ends in Fatal Fire
5. November 2008
It was a fatal truck accident that ended in a ball of fire. The tractor-trailer that caught in fire was carrying a load of batteries Sunday evening around 7:00pm. The truck was being driven by a male. He was heading north on a Virginia state highway when he decided to speed up and pass [...]
Continue reading...Drunken Truck Driver Causes Two Accidents
5. November 2008
It was around 4:30 pm last Friday night when a bicycle and truck were both heading south on an Indiana state road. The truck ran off the road causing it to hit the read end of the bicycle. County Deputy Coroner said that the bicycle rider was killed instantly. The name of the rider [...]
Continue reading...Suspected Drunk Driver Collides with Scooter
13. October 2008
A 1994 Retro scooter driven by James J. Kaster, 22, was heading eastbound on a state route when a 2005 Nissan Titan driven by Thomas W. Howard, 27, hit him. Witnesses say that the Nissan truck was driving at a pretty high speed. Howard took the inside lane and then switched back over to the [...]
Continue reading...One Pedestrian Injured and the other Killed Construction Accident
10. October 2008
In Germantown, Maryland there was a tragic construction accident killing one pedestrian and seriously injuring the other. One of the roads, Clopper Road, was closed because of the construction that was being done on the road. The road was closed to traffic vehicles and only open to construction vehicles. Those investigating the accident stated [...]
Continue reading...Teenager Shot and then Crashes into Utility Pole
6. October 2008
Local police were called to an intersection of Turner Road and Dunlap Circle in Alabama for a truck accident. When the police arrived, they found Cory Shane, 19, limped over in the driver seat of a Chevy pickup truck. Apparently Shane had been shot once in his body. He had driven his [...]
Continue reading...Mother of Two Crashes Car into Tractor Trailer
3. October 2008
It was a serious crash that could have ended in a worst result seeing that there were two kids in the back seat of the car that collided in a tractor trailer accident. Around 10 am on this past Thursday, a car crashed head on with a tractor trailer that was in the opposite lane. This [...]
Continue reading...Man hit by Pickup Truck while Crossing Four-land Vegas Street
2. October 2008
Las Vegas is crowded. The streets are crowded. The sidewalks are crowded. The casinos are crowded. There are people everywhere, some of which are not in the best state of mind. People are crossing streets constantly, but some people do not use the cross walk and that can results in a precarious situation. A 44-year-old man [...]
Continue reading...DUI Driver Causes UPS Truck Accident
8. September 2008
Thursday early morning, around 2 am, there was a 2003 Toyota car heading speeding south on a major highway in Oakland. The car tried to change lanes but recklessly swerved into lane number 3. When he did, he clipped the side of a UPS truck. This caused the UPS truck to hit [...]
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6. August 2009
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