Comedian Tracy Morgan is still recovering from the broken leg and broken ribs he sustained when a Wal-Mart truck crashed into his limousine van on the New Jersey Turnpike. Mr. Morgan filed a lawsuit against Wal-Mart for negligent conduct, according to the Huffington Post. Mr. Morgan’s lawyer is seeking a jury trial, compensatory damages, and…
A tractor-trailer driver has been charged with transporting an unsecured load after steel rods falling from his rig caused a fatal motorcycle crash on I-64 in Huntington, West Virginia (WV), on June 28, 2014. The accident occurred on the interstate overpass above West 17th Street. The man driving the motorcycle sustained critical injuries, and the…
A rear-end collision between two tractor-trailers in Culpeper, Virginia (VA), on the morning of July 2, 2014, left one trucker dead and the other truck operator with injuries that required hospital treatment. A person behind the wheel of a car that had been stopped at a traffic light to make a turn at the intersection…
Beth Yos of Kailua, Hawaii, was traveling with her husband and 8-year-old daughter on I-81 when a block of cement suddenly crashed through her Chrysler minivan windshield. The debris, as it turned out, was from an overpass near the Draper exit. The boom of a military construction vehicle, carted by a tractor-trailer, struck the overpass…
A hit-and-run accident involving a coal truck in rural Kanawha County, West Virginia (WV), cost a man one of his legs. The collision occurred on the night of June 4, 2014, but the details were only recently released to the press. State police have been unable to track down the driver of the commercial truck, and…