On I-40 in Hickory, NC a 21-year-old rookie driver decided at the last second to take exit 123B. It was a bad decision. The Swift driver just got his CDL last week, and was hospitalized with an injury to his left arm and was “shaken by the accident”. I can imagine. “He just got his … Read more
Tuesday afternoon, a tractor-trailer went through a barrier and halfway down an embankment at Beaver St. on I-95 in Jacksonville. The accident happened after the semi collided with two cars and hurtled off the interstate. According to News4Jax: The drivers of the cars and one passenger suffered minor injuries in the crash, which was reported … Read more
A tractor-trailer overturned on the ramp from wb I-70 to sb I-465 in Indianapolis on Sunday morning. The overturned semi was hauling 43,000 lbs of diapers and was partially hanging off the interstate bridge ramp. Fortunately, it was soon able to be moved off the bridge. WTHR reports that crews were still working to unload … Read more
Thursday morning, 43-year-old truck driver Eri Pleitez, of Lynn, Ma, was apparently driving drunk when he rolled his tractor trailer, bringing down a utility pole, power lines, a transformer and a guardrail. Pleitez was cut off by a black pickup truck, causing the truck to roll over onto its side. He was hauling 38,000 lbs … Read more
There’s still no word on what exactly caused a Roadrunner semi-truck to crash through the Subway of the New Lisbon Travel Mart in Juneau County, Wisconsin on Thursday morning. “A Juneau County travel mart has tens of thousands in damage after a big-rig slammed into and through the building. It happened just off the Interstate … Read more