On Sept. 8, 2017, at approximately 4:30 in the afternoon, 39-year-old Erin Kaplan was driving her Audi station wagon on Evergreen Mills Road in Leesburg. In the vehicle with her were her son, two daughters, and her mother. As Ms. Kaplan was driving, her vehicle was suddenly slammed into by a 22,000-pound food truck when…
Virginia State Police are investigating a head-on collision between a tractor-trailer and a 2000 Toyota sedan. The crash occurred on Virginia 130 in Amherst County, near Ambrose Rucker Road and East Perch Road early Monday morning and resulted in the road being closed for almost seven hours. According to a statement issued by law enforcement,…
The state of Georgia is planning on building a $1.8 billion highway which will be for commercial trucks only. The highway would run from Atlanta to Macon and provide 40 miles of toll-free road, with its own entrances and exits. Georgia transportation officials predict that truck traffic in the state will double by 2040 and…
A Virginia car accident attorney knows the devastation car accidents can have on victims and their families, but truck accidents often result in catastrophic injuries due to the massive size of these vehicles. Although truck drivers are required to have special training and hold a commercial driver’s license, these crashes do happen and far too…