In the interests of commerce, sometimes shortcuts occur. Businesses vying to get their products to consumers in an increasingly competitive market mean distributors are overwhelmed to meet deadlines. Often this translates into goods being overloaded into commercial trucks beyond their capacity. Numerous trucks on our nation’s highways are carrying cargo exceeding legal limits. These same…
A tenth-grade student was killed Tuesday morning after a log fell off another vehicle and crashed through the windshield of the pickup truck the victim was riding in. According to reports from law enforcement, the 15-year-old victim was being driven to school by his father and was sitting on the passenger’s side of the truck….
A work truck driver who has been charged with driving under the influence is being blamed for causing a fatal head-on collision in Anderson County, South Carolina (SC). The deadly crash occurred on the SC-28 Bypass/Pearman Dairy Road at the interchange with Getsinger Road. The crash with an SUV happened at around 9:30 am on May 4,…
A recent report issued by the American Automobile Association (AAA) says that at least 63,000 truck accidents could be avoided each year if vehicles were equipped with the right truck safety technology. The report, Leveraging Large Truck Technology and Engineering to Realize Safety Gains, used data from the more than 400,000 truck crashes that occurred…
A concrete mixer overturned onto a minivan and sent all four people in the smaller vehicle to hospitals with injuries ranging from serious to life-threatening. The wreck happened in Concord, North Carolina (NC), at around 8:30 am on September 20, 2017. State Highway Patrol troopers responded to the scene in Cabarrus County and…