Recently, the American Transportation Research Institute and the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute released the most comprehensive study to-date on electronic speed limiters and their effect on the rate of commercial truck accidents. Their findings were conclusive: installing speed limiters on tractor-trailers resulted in a 50-percent drop in truck accident rates and prevented a significant number…
What Happened: A Virginia (VA) truck driver was going the speed limit on I-81 when he turned a corner on the interstate towards the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains and saw traffic completely stopped. He intentionally steered his 18-wheeler, fully loaded with mulch, off an interstate and into the guardrail to avoid crashing into…
What Happened: In Chilton County, Alabama (AL) a crash occurred between an all terrain vehicle and a tractor trailer on AL Hwy. 143 just north of County Road 68. The driver of the ATV was killed in the accident and the reason for the crash is not immediately known. The Virginia Injury Lawyer’s Perspective: As an experienced…
A trucker was killed in a one-vehicle Virginia tanker truck accident in Bedford County. The truck accident spilled 7,000 gallons of diesel fuel in the area.
In a new blog post to our personal injury and wrongful death attorneys’ Virginia Trucking Accident/Injury Blog, lawyers with Shapiro, Washburn & Sharp& Duffan report on a fatal accident involving a large commercial truck, a pickup truck and an another passenger vehicle that sent three people to hospitals with injuries and took the life of…