The body of a 43-year-old mother of two was found by police in an industrial part on the eastern outskirts of Matamata. Officials believe she was the victim of a hit-and-run. The woman was wearing dark clothing and no shoes. The suspect was probably a truck driver who is thought…
Local police accused a dump truck driver of careless driving. The allegations were placed against the Highland Lakes man when he ran a red light and subsequently hit a black jeep, being driven by a 53-year-old man. The responding police sergeant and patrolman found that both drivers, thankfully, escaped injury.…
Oil and diesel fuel were spilled in a semi-truck accident in July of 2000 on Highway 195 near Pullman. The 50-year-old driver was injured. The man, who was driving a 1998 International semi-tractor trailer, had to receive stitches to bind up a cut to his head and was admitted to…
A crash involving a tractor trailer injured the police chief of Ozark, Arkansas. The new chief had been in pursuit of a Franklin County escapee. A bystander who was eating with his family across the street from the truck accident says he could tell the vehicles involved in the wreck…
The driver of a semi-truck from Buffalo, Minnesota, was charged with causing a multiple-vehicle crash last May that resulted in the death of two people and an unborn child. The crash that happened in Lakeville, Minnesota, also released millions of bees on Interstate 35. The bees severely hindered rescue efforts.…
Wednesday in Waco, TX, two cars became tangled in phone and cable lines with live power lines hovering over them. “There were some very dangerous moments,” bystanders said. An 18-wheeler snagged the power lines and caused a chain reaction that brought traffic to a complete standstill. With live wires surrounding…
A 24-mile section of Interstate 70 closed last November due to a rock slide that left boulders imbedded 6 feet deep into the roadway. The detour prescribed by officials tending to the road closure was a 220-mile route through the western mountains. The expected road closure is to last at…
A fatal chain reaction on Interstate 70 was instigated by a semi-truck whose driver did not have the proper permits for his oversized load. When the burdened tractor trailer collided with a construction barrier it was pushed into oncoming traffic. Initially, the Bronx police ticketed the man for not carrying…
A tractor trailer driver is in jail on drunk driving charges after his truck overturned and caught fire just of a highway in Miller County, Georgia. According to reports, both the driver and the Long Island passenger safely exited the vehicle. First responders to the Saturday evening crash were police…
A woman who got out of her car was struck by a Semi-Truck on Interstate 75 on Wednesday. Police were quickly called to the scene to investigate exactly what happened to cause the accident. The woman was rushed to hospital, explained the police. She was said to be in critical…