Last month, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) released safety data from 2011, including the following: One-third of truck occupant fatalities occurred when occupant was not wearing a seatbelt; 64% of large truck fatal crashes occurred on rural roads; of the 530 fatal crashes in work zones in the country, 27% — or 144 […]
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Box Truck, Semi Collide in Farmersville, TX
Driving through a construction zone on Highway 380 in Collin County, Texas, a tractor trailer and a large box truck crashed head-on on Monday, March 27. According to MyFoxDFW.com, one person was rushed to a nearby hospital by air ambulance. The driver of the box truck was rescued from the wreckage by emergency crews who […]
Tractor Trailer Crash Kills One in Amarillo, TX
A man driving an SUV was killed on Saturday, March 17, when his vehicle collided with a tractor trailer in Amarillo, Texas. According to the Amarillo Globe-News, the SUV turned right onto St. Francis Avenue from Morning Drive when it drifted into the westbound lanes and into the path of an oncoming tractor trailer. The […]
Man Killed in Truck Collision in Groesbeck, TX
A high school teacher was killed when he rear-ended a tractor trailer and seconds later was hit by a pickup truck on Highway 164 in Groesbeck, TX, on Wednesday, March 14. According to KWTX.com, the man pulled to the shoulder of the road to let another vehicle pass when he rear-ended the tractor trailer, which […]
Driver Charged in Fatal Multi-Truck Crash in San Antonio
A truck driver who stopped his vehicle in the fast lane of a San Antonio freeway, causing a three-vehicle collision that left one man dead on Monday, March 5, has been charged with criminally negligent homicide, according to the San Antonio Express-News. An 18-wheeler, according to the report, stopped in the fast lane of Loop […]
