Sep 11, 2012 | Car Accidents, DUI & DWI, Personal Injury, Trucking/Tractor-Trailer Accidents, Uncategorized
A man has been hospitalized after crashing his truck at the Scaleybark light rail station in South Charlotte, according to the CMPD. The man has suffered injuries, however they are not life-threatening.
The accident report states that the accident occurred around 2:00 a.m. early Saturday morning, when the man somehow lost control of his vehicle and crashed it somewhere in the vicinity of the light rail. The impact caused the car to spin, ending up on the tracks of the light rail. Fortunately for other drivers, his car was the only vehicle involved in the accident.
In an unfortunate turn of events, after the collision with the light rail gate, the driver had to be cut from the car and rushed to the hospital. Police were subsequently forced to shut down a section of the road in both directions for a few hours while CATS made repairs.
Accordingly the police currently believe that both speed and alcohol played a role in the crash. The driver is expected to survive.
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Aug 15, 2012 | Car Accidents, Personal Injury, Trucking/Tractor-Trailer Accidents, Uncategorized
Last Wednesday afternoon was a slow one for fellow drivers of the Hickory area. A large portion of one of the major roadways in Hickory, Tate Boulevard, was shut down for several hours due to an overturned tractor-trailer, causing major delays in traffic.
The wreck involved only one tractor-trailer that overturned while attempting to make a sharp left turn onto Tate Blvd. from 26th Street Drive in Hickory. The accident occurred around 3:10 p.m. Speed attributed to the cause of the accident, as the driver of the tractor-trailer did not slow his rig to the speed needed to make the angle of the turn.
Making matters worse, as the officials attempted to turn the vehicle upright, the truck was quickly compromised and caught aflame. Apparently, the truck was carrying fuel, in which one of the barrels has a leak that initiated the fire.The Hickory Fire Department was subsequently called to the scene.
Thereafter, another tractor-trailer was called to the scene to unload the fuel and other supplies from the overturned vehicle in order to lighten the load and turn the vehicle upright, once and for all.
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Aug 10, 2012 | Car Accidents, Personal Injury, Products, Trucking/Tractor-Trailer Accidents, Uncategorized
Davidson County was shut down for hours last Sunday afternoon, when a tractor- trailer caught fire, resulting in the closing of four lanes on highway 109 for multiple hours.Authorities said two lanes each of the south and northbound lanes and closed after the fire was reported around 3:45 p.m.
Luckily, there have been no injuries were reported due to this accident. Authorities said 25 firefighters from the Hasty Fire Department, Pilot Fire Department and Thomasville Fire Department had the situation under control within about 30 minutes.
The cause of the fire is still unknown, however the fire is still currently under investigation. According to the driver of the truck, he states he heard a loud noise, pulled over and saw flames coming from the truck. The driver did not want to be identified. The truck was reportedly hauling cardboard.
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Aug 9, 2012 | Personal Injury, Trucking/Tractor-Trailer Accidents, Uncategorized, Wrongful Death
In a tractor-trailer truck accident last Thursday, the truck went over the rail on Interstate-20 (I-20) into the Augusta Canal. A Lancaster, South Carolina man was the driver of the truck. He suffered only minor injuries.
Apparently, this guard rail on the South Carolina line is no stranger to tractor-trailer accidents: this tractor-trailer truck accident is the third one in three years in which a tractor-trailer truck crashed through the guard rail.
A wrecker driver had worked in two of them. In the last crash the eighteen-wheeler hung from the bridge rather than falling into the river.
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Aug 6, 2012 | Trucking/Tractor-Trailer Accidents, Uncategorized
Thursday, a truck carrying a crane crashed into the structure of a swing bridge in Beaufort, SC. The bridge connects downtown Beaufort to Lady’s Island. The truck crash closed the bridge for several hours, as engineers checked the bridge for serious damage. The inspectors came in from Charleston, SC. There are no reports of personal injury, only damage to the truck carrying the crane.
Cranes are generally very dangerous, but also a risk are trucks carrying cranes apparently.
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