One of the two fire engines severely damaged in a truck accidentthis past January is set to return to duty by late June. The trucks were damaged when a tractor trailer crashed into them on an icy interstate. The fire rescue vehicles were parked on the highway in a staggered…
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…
Father of eight died in a motor vehicle accident last week on and Indiana highway. He was hit and killed while standing outside of his tractor trailer alongside the highway. The 60-year-old man had pulled his semi to the side of the interstate. At this time, his reasons for doing…
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.…
The driver of a semi-truck narrowly missed crashing into a home that sits at the intersection of US 68 and US 62 on Saturday morning. Authorities in Nassau and Suffolk believe the semi driver may have fallen asleep at the wheel causing the major accident on Saturday morning. Around 5…
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 53-year-old male was killed in a truck accidentthat occurred just after midnight last Thursday, Texas highway officials report. Responding to the emergency call placed by the rig driver, the police department and a trooper with the Texas Department of Public Safety arrived on the scene and found EMS medics…
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…