Millions of trucks travel our roadways every day. Truck operators need to obey specific laws and regulations to ensure the safety of everyone who shares the road with large commercial vehicles. As long as trucking companies and truck drivers follow the rules, in theory, everyone should remain safe from an avoidable 18-wheeler accident. Truck accidents […]
Five people died in a truck accident on Highway 59 near Victoria, Texas. Some people have been treated for injuries stemming from the accident. The Victoria truck crash occurred Saturday morning at the Telferner exit just north of Victoria. Van Strikes Rear of the Big Rig The Texas Department of Public Safety […]
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration estimates that about 20% of all trucking accidents are rear-ended related crashes. Rear-end collisions with big rigs are incredibly hazardous to the occupants in the vehicles they hit. Some of the reasons for the severity of injury and frequency of 18-wheeler crashes include: • A semi-truck can weigh 80,000 […]
We have a lot of commercial vehicles in Texas. Texas has thousands of miles of highways and include such major interstates such as I-10 running across the state east and west, I -45 and I -35 running north and south and major highways such other major highways as US 290 from Houston to Austin. Thousands […]
Semi-truck accidents in Texas are all too common. Some estimates place the number of big rigs on Texas roads at over 3 million annually. This is the equivalent of 570,000 railway cars and with numbers this high there are definite consequences. This includes wear and tear on the infrastructure but more important our concern is […]
Police were on the scene of a dump truck accident that injured the driver. According to news reports, the crash happened when a dump truck traveling north on the east frontage road of IH-35 suffered a blown tire, which caused the driver to lose control of the truck. The truck spun and veered off the […]
