Maryland police say that seven people were injured on the Capital Beltway yesterday, after a tractor-trailer hit the back of a fire truck and then collided with two other vehicles. According to a witness, the fire truck was decreasing its speed to take an emergency lane when the tractor-trailer rear-ended…
Five light rail train passengers and the train’s driver were hospitalized last week, after a tractor-trailer and the train collided with one another in Hunt Valley. The train was derailed in the accident, and service throughout the area was disrupted. The truck driver, Marshall F. Hartsell, 65, was headed southbound…
Metro Networks, the largest traffic gathering and reporting operation in America, recently released its list “The Top Ten Worst Traffic Incidents of 2006.” An accident involving two tractor-trailers colliding on I-95 North in Massaponax, VA put the Washington D.C. area in the number 10 spot. The trucks ended up catching…
A 23-year-old Denton man died last week after the service truck he was driving crashed into a Perdue flatbed tractor-trailer loaded with chickens at the intersection of northbound MD 313 and eastbound Line Road last Wednesday morning. According to Maryland State Police, Lee Albert Asbury III became trapped in his…
A 9-year-old boy and his mother have filed personal injury lawsuits against the Yellowbird Bus Company and the Cowan Truck Company after the school bus he was riding in collided with a tractor-trailer on I-95 in Aberdeen, Maryland on July 5. The bus had been returning from a field trip…
Heavy freight traffic on Baltimore highways is causing the Baltimore Metropolitan Council to review whether there needs to be more rest facilities available to truckers. There are currently no designated rest stops between the Beltway and the Pennsylvania line, and the council wants to determine whether more truck parking areas…
Truck accidents involving smaller vehicles or pedestrians often result in more deaths and serious injuries than other vehicle accidents. – There are over 500,000 truck accidents on US roads each year – About 5,000 deaths result from truck-related accidents – 12 % of all fatalities in the US are due…