A tragic accident happened last Friday, leaving three people dead and six more injured. The four vehicle accident happened in Gainesville on Georgia Highway 365. The collision left two cars pinned underneath a tractor-trailer. According to reports, the accident happened at around 1 in the morning Friday, and involved four vehicles.…
This wrongful death case was most unusual. A man was killed in his own front yard. The day started out in a normal way for the couple in this story: They ate breakfast, talked about their plans for the day, and the man then went outside to spend some time…
The next time you are out on the highway, look around you. There are far more potentially deadly big rigs on the road than there ever used to be. No one wants to hear that there are more accidents every year on the highways involving semis. Unfortunately, though, it is…
Big rigs tend to attract a lot of attention. Unfortunately, much of it is the result of them being in yet another horrendous wreck. This wrongful death case captured the attention of a lot of people when it happened in 2006. Four were brutally killed on the highway after they…
Big rigs virtually dominate American highways. Unfortunately, they also dominate in accident statistics. Driving these days is not like it used to be. There are way more large trucks on the highways than there ever were. They are what keeps our nation moving by transporting goods that let us live…
Surviving a truck accident is not always easy. Often, there are serious injuries, many that involve a victim’s back. “By far, the most common injury in a truck accident is a back injury. They have the potential to be catastrophic, since the back is our major foundation and any injury…
Beware the “no zone” that travels with 18-wheelers. Stay out of that area or you may pay a high price – your life. You know what it is like driving a smaller vehicle near an 18-wheeler. It makes a lot of people pretty squeamish, and with good reason. Even if…
Don’t confuse underriding with underwriting. These are two different things, and one will kill you. Just when you think you may have heard everything, you hear about a fairly graphic term that happens in certain accident cases called underriding. Underriding refers to a wreck where a vehicle or a motorcycle…
At over 80,000 pounds each, it’s no wonder that 18-wheelers are involved in ugly, and often fatal, crashes. Not many people realize that a fully loaded big rig can weigh that much. Comparatively, most cars weigh only about 4,000 pounds. It’s not hard to see why smaller vehicles tend to…
This accident was unusual, as it was a single vehicle 18-wheeler crash. It cost the trucker his life. This 18-wheeler accident happened on I-95 in Oklahoma. The trucker was hauling equipment for country and western singer Carrie Underwood when his vehicle veered to the left shoulder and scraped along 400…