Truck Accident Attorneys

Truck accidents are always serious. The underlying cause varies; truck drivers can be distracted, fatigued, drunk or unlicensed, but the overriding cause is always the same. Big trucks cause big accidents. Commercial vans and small trucks can outweigh passenger vehicles by almost 10 times, while fully loaded tractor-trailers can be 40 times heavier than a…

A devastating accident on I-77 has changes the lives of local families forever. The circumstances are still being investigated, but our hearts are heavy to learn that two people have died and 10 people have been seriously injured, including a 3-year-old toddler whose seat was ejected from the vehicle, as a result of the crash.…

On June 20, two people were injured when a pickup truck rear-ended a tractor-trailer on I-77 just north of LaSalle Street. Both were transported to different medical facilities, one with very serious injuries. Just two days later, another pickup truck rear-ended a different 18-wheeler on I-77, this time near mile marker 73. The driver of…

Cargo spills aren’t something that many of us consider when we leave on a morning commute or run to the store for a gallon of milk. While many truck crashes slide under the radar, some crashes are always newsworthy; some for circumstance (a bread truck colliding with a deli truck in New Jersey, a beer…

“Flash spudding” was the trending topic on Twitter on May 6 after a tractor-trailer hauling 25 tons of potatoes overturned on I-77 in North Carolina. The Twitterverse reacted promptly, describing the hundreds of yards of spud-covered highway as a scene of “mash destruction”. One user suggested renaming the stretch of road the “hashbrown highway,” while…

When we talk about big rigs on the road, we use lots of statistics to illustrate the dangers they pose. The numbers don’t do the issue justice; 3,413 people died in large truck crashes in 2010, 72% were occupants of cars and other passenger vehicles, 9 percent of all motor vehicle crash deaths involve large…

A head-on crash between a logging truck and a van in early March killed both drivers and left the roadway littered with flaming wreckage. The full scale of the destruction is difficult to comprehend; both vehicles were traveling at or above the 55mph speed limit when they collided. First responders encountered an accident scene strewn…

Commercial truck driver Stevie Breland, 58, has been charged in the hit and run death of Flora Ellenburg, 49, in Chester County in early February. The accident occurred on I-77 in Chester County in the early hours of Monday, February 8th. Ellenburg was a passenger in a Ford Explorer that was rear-ended by a commercial…

When you are driving on the highway either beside or behind a large, commercial truck, you are reminded of just how massive those rolling machines are compared to your seemingly small, passenger vehicle. That vast difference in size and scale means that some passenger cars are low enough that the front end can slip up…

A single vehicle accident in Polk County, NC killed one and shut down I-26 Eastbound overnight at the end of January. The accident happened near Saluda at 2:15 a.m., when Tony Joseph Hurst of Chapin, SC crossed the median and flipped his trailer on the interstate. Hurst was wearing a seatbelt, but died on the…