“Officials” say the driver fell asleep at the wheel. The driver says he swerved to miss a moose. Either way, the homeowners are pretty fortunate things didn’t get a whole lot worse. At approximately 5:30 a.m. Saturday morning, the tractor-trailer left Route 20 in Darien N.Y., and landed in the yard of a house at … Read more
Sad news near Dallas, Texas after a semi driver swerved into oncoming traffic Thursday at 10:45 p.m. The big rig sideswiped the bus, causing it to overturn, then hit the car behind the bus head-on. The truck driver, 50-year-old Bradley Farmer of Bogard, Missouri, and the driver of the car, 30-year-old Angelica Beard, both died … Read more
Less than 3 months after another semi trailer was “sliced in half by a train” in Le Mars, IA, it’s happened again. Wednesday morning, a westbound Shuster tractor-trailer was crossing the railroad tracks at 18th St. SW and Lincoln Ave., when it was struck by a southbound Canadian National train at the back of the … Read more
UPDATE: Well, turns out the trailer of that CRST rig WAS empty, which is no real big surprise. We also know now that the CRST driver was 71-year-old Vinson Lawrence from California, who had this to say: “All of a sudden, it just blew over. It was one scary feeling. The wind just treated this … Read more
Lots of Bud Light wasted early this morning after tractor trailer overturns in Long Island, NY. According to CBS New York, an unlicensed motorist collided with the semi on a Long Island Expressway (I-495) service road at Walt Whitman Road in Melville, NY. The beer truck overturned and hundreds of cases of beer spilled out … Read more