Tractor-Trailer Accident

Published on: March 17, 2012

A truck driver crashed his truck

by Stephen Bilkis

Friday at about noon on Route 80 West by Exit 34, a driver of a tractor-trailer overturned his truck and had to be removed by first responders. According to a witness, the identity of the man who drove the truck was not available.

He was removed from the truck accident about 12:55 p.m. State Police Sgt. Mark Kapenis in Netcong, told a reporter, that the driver was alert and conscious the whole time.

It took emergency crews almost an entire hour to get him out of the truck. During that time traffic on Route 80 West was at a stand still for about 5 miles.

Published on: March 5, 2012

Truck blocks highway

by Stephen Bilkis

A source close to the story related the details of an accident that occurred on Monday during the morning rush hours in the Washington County area. According to police, a tractor-trailer driver was going eastbound into the Buffalo Township area, which is off Interstate 70 when the vehicle spun out of control and landed westbound on Highway 70. Fortunately for everyone, there were no cars in that westbound lane doing the time of the truck crash.

The trailer truck driver was escorted to the hospital, and the police told the interested parties that they are looking into whether they should file charges against the truck driver or not. The police completed their reports for a newspaper, and stated that because of the accident all westbound lanes on Highway 70 were shut down for hours and this caused a lot of traffic congestion.

In addition, the vehicle’s diesel fuel spilled on the highway and had to be cleaned up by crews that were summoned to the accident scene. The witness who saw it all believes that the truck was en route to another state, laden with pie crusts in the body of the truck. Because of the existence of the Long Island Expressway, accidents like this one are common in Queens and Long Island. The Expressway creates dangers and runs through both of these locals in New York.

Published on: March 2, 2012

Train and truck collision

by Stephen Bilkis

Police reported to an investigator that a National Railway Company train crashed with a tractor-trailer that two women were driving in. According to the police, no one was injured in the truck accident. The truck was taking auto the parts to Kentucky from Newbern. The police investigation revealed that the accident happened on Wednesday at approximately 6 15 p.m.

The tractor trailer was traveling on Parks Road. At one point, the tractor-trailer got caught on the tracks, while it was going downtown to Newbern. The driver of the truck was a woman and she was from Illinois. She was unable to drive the truck forward, and neither could she back the truck up from the train track. Both women were attempting to call for assistance when they saw that the train was coming, believes a witness who happened to be near the scene of the truck accident. They were unable to call 911, because the train came right down on them just as soon as they exited the vehicle. The story made news in Staten Island and Westlchester.

The train was going at such a rapid speed that he was not able to stop and so, it crashed through the tractor trailer until it came to a stop approximately 75 yards ahead. The impact of the accident split the tractor-trailer in half, and as a result, all of the auto parts were scattered around the surrounding area. The women were lucky not to have gotten hurt in this terrible accident. According to a reporter who was working the story for the local newspaper, the scene looked like something from a movie. “The Fugitive” came to mind and was mentioned in the story he wrote for the paper.

Published on: February 27, 2012

Head on collision injury

by Stephen Bilkis

On February the third, a female driver of a Volkswagen collided head-on with a tractor trailer truck. This was a crash of three vehicles. The truck accident happened in the Route 33 area. Police told the reporter that the Ryder truck and the Volkswagen Jetta collided head-on.

There was also a white vehicle involved in the accident, according to a source. The Volkswagen driven by the female driver was the one that was trapped between the truck and the white Chevrolet. Rescue team had to get the vehicle out as well as a female driver. The female driver was taken to the hospital by ambulance and from there she was airlifted to a medical facility close by. As a matter of record fatal truck accidents are likely to occur in areas with many highways and winding roads. They do not happen very often in urban areas like The Bronx and Queens where there are not many highways and winding roads where trucks are apt to speed and become dangerous and have accidents which kill people.

A young man who was in the accident was also taken to the hospital along with the female driver of the Chevrolet car. The driver of the tractor trailer truck went without injuries. The authorities said that the accident is still being investigated to see what happened. He said that the tractor-trailer driver was going eastbound on route 33 and the driver off the Volkswagen was going westbound. The road was closed for several hours as police tried to figure out what happened. The police told the rep that they are checking to see if drunk driving played a part. Of they find that alcohol or drugs or both were involved in this case, it could easily and very quickly become a criminal matter in which someone could be spending a very long time in jail.

Published on: February 10, 2012

Woman dies in truck accident

by Stephen Bilkis

Police told a reporter that a woman was killed on Saturday morning after her pickup truck crashed into a tractor-trailer in Lindley town. The woman was from Corning, which is a town nearby. The truck accident happened approximately 5:40 p.m. between Stowell Road and Route 15, which was close to the highway as police told the lawyer. The woman was 54 years old, and she was on her way to visit her family. The car got out of control, while it was driving east on Stowell Road.

She was unable to stop the car when she got to the intersection. Therefore, the car skidded on the road and careened into the front of the tractor-trailer that was coming in the opposite direction. At least, this is what the source believes. The man that was driving the tractor-trailer was 60 years of age, and he was driving from Trenton, Ontario. The truck driver was not able to stop the truck in time to save the woman. So the tractor trailer hit the pickup truck that the woman was driving and it struck the side where the passenger sits. Accidents like this are common in Long Island but not in New York City.

According to the media, the woman was dead on the scene. The coroner also confirmed the woman’s death on the scene. There was an eight-year-old in the passenger seat at the time of the truck accident. However, that eight-year-old passenger was not seriously hurt. He was treated at a hospital because of complaining about pain in his neck, and his back. The police reported to the public that they are continuing their investigation into this matter. At this time, no traffic tickets will be issued, according to the police report.

Published on: December 7, 2011

Truck Wreck Nets Family $3.5 million Award

by Stephen Bilkis

In this case, a truck accident victim and his wife were awarded a total of $3.5 million for their future pain and suffering. It was one of the largest awards handed out in recent history in Michigan.

The man and his wife were heading west on a road in 2008 and were waiting to turn left onto another road, when a tractor-trailer pushed them into oncoming traffic, where they were hit by an oncoming semi. The first big rig in this horrific chain of negligence wasn’t paying attention to the van in front of him and when he noticed it was stopped, tried to hit the shoulder to avoid an accident.

Instead, what happened is that the rig that swerved, caused the attached trailer to spin into the van, whipping it out into oncoming traffic where the van was hit by another tractor trailer. The victims injuries were catastrophic, with the man suffered two fractured vertebrae, depression and traumatic brain injury.

Published on: November 7, 2011

Drunk and Inattentive Trucker Kills Four Resulting in $15 million Judgment

by Stephen Bilkis

The accident that sparked this wrongful death lawsuit happened in 2005 when a husband and wife spent a weekend with friends in another city. They were on their way home, when they were stopped in a construction zone on the highway.

Minutes later, a tractor-trailer rammed into the whole line of traffic stopped for the construction zone, killing the husband and three others in the carnage. The wife sustained catastrophic injuries. Four years later, the court rendered its verdict; a $15 million settlement for the wife who lost her husband due to the negligence of the trucker, said a New York Trucking Accident Lawyer.

Sadly, although the judgment could have helped the family continue with their lives and made some reparation for the horrific ordeal, the trucking company won’t be paying it within the foreseeable future. They moved all of their assets, including their trucks, into four other business entities to avoid paying. No one even knows if the original company is in business any longer, stated the observer who has seen similar accidents in Manhattan and Queens.

Published on: November 4, 2011

Injured and Declining to sue, an Accident Survivor is Financially Strapped

by Stephen Bilkis

In some cases, the truth is stranger than fiction and this case has all of those elements; a bit of hard, cold truth and an old world element of what may be considered to be fiction, but, is also truth.

A 60-year old Amish woman who survived a very ugly tractor trailer crash that killed three and left more than a dozen others badly injured, has declined to sue the trucker who caused the accident, indicated a New York Trucking Accident Lawyer. That is the Amish way; not to take money from others when a situation is considered to be God’s will. And, according to God’s will, she would not participate in suing the man who killed her father.

The truck that hit them was fully loaded with scrap metal – 13 tons of it. The trucker had been driving for more than 86 hours over an 8-day period and was in violation of the hours of service regulations. He had been cited 41 times for fraudulently altering logbooks.

Published on: October 16, 2011

Hit-And-Run Freightliner Accident and Others

by Stephen Bilkis

There is always a risk when driving. Resident from around Columbia, Missouri, can definitely testify to that. In the last two weeks, four vehicle accidents have occurred.

Four residents of Boonville, a town near Columbia, were injured Friday in an accident near the Cooper County Fairgrounds.

An 18-year-old girl was making a left hand turn when she crossed the center line and was hit by a 45-year-old driving a truck.

Published on: September 15, 2011

Tractor Trailer Rams into Numerous Vehicles, Killing Three Marine Recruits

by Stephen Bilkis

The Truck company and trucker involved in this fatal fiasco had been sued no less than five times before this latest incident, said the New York Truck Accident Lawyer. There were two other people in the same car the Marine recruits were in when this accident happened and it also involved five other vehicles and a motorcycle. In other words, it was a total mess.

The family of one of the deceased is seeking $20 million in punitive damages from the Truck company and a further $1 million in punitive damages from the trucker. They are also asking for $25,000 in compensatory damages and $17,000 in burial expenses. The lawsuit further states the Truck company had no business allowing the trucker to drive, given his string of serious traffic offenses and that they should have been aware of them, explained the Truck Accident Lawyer. In Suffolk and Westchester Counties when alcohol is involved in the case, the authorities have little pity for the driver.

The driver was convicted of drunk driving three times, as well as letting his daughter and other underage kids use drugs and/or alcohol in a motel room. He evidently lied on his application to get hired, pointed out the New York Truck Accident Lawyer.