Archive for the ‘accident’ Category
Monday, December 10th, 2007 |
Crews have righted an overturned 18-wheel truck trailer along the Eastex Freeway near Interstate 10, authorities said.
The trailer, which was carrying scrap metal, overturned shortly after 5:30 a.m., blocking a lane of northbound traffic and the HOV, officials said.
Houston TranStar officials said the scene should be cleared by noon.
The accident marked the second day in a row that an 18-wheeler truck has overturned on a major Houston freeway interchange.
On Wednesday, an 18-wheeler overturned on the Loop 610 East ramp to I-10, forcing the ramp’s closure from about 5:45 a.m. until late afternoon. That truck was carrying a load of copper tubing, the weight of which caused problems for heavy-duty wreckers trying to clear the accident.
Posted in Trucks, accident | No Comments »
Monday, December 10th, 2007 |
including three children — were killed Friday in a horrific crash involving a cement truck at the city’s southern edge.
Debris was scattered for several hundred metres.
The five victims, all travelling in one vehicle, died at the scene of the 7 p.m. crash on Macleod Trail at 194th Avenue S.E.
Though the investigation was in its early stages, police duty inspector Luch Berti said it appeared the car — which was unrecognizable — may have been struck from behind by the cement truck.
The truck’s driver was not hurt in the crash; police took him into custody for questioning.
“Some of the information we’ve received is that the truck was travelling at a high rate of speed,” Berti said at the scene, where tarps covered what remained of the shredded car that was pinned under the cement truck.
It appears both vehicles were headed north on Macleod Trail, said police, adding that the car had stopped at a set of traffic lights at the 194th Avenue intersection .
Posted in Trucks, accident | No Comments »
Monday, December 10th, 2007 |
Ford will recall nearly 1.2m heavy-duty trucks and SUVs equipped with a faulty sensor that could cause the engine to stall, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
The recall will cover Ford F-450 Super Duty trucks, Excursion SUVs and E-Series vans from model years 1997 through 2003. These vehicles are powered by a 7.3 litre diesel engine.
Ford said in a letter posted on the government agency’s website that the camshaft-sensor circuit in these vehicles can degrade over time, potentially leading to engine failure.
The company said it is aware of 14 accidents related to the glitch but no injuries.
Ford will begin notifying customers on December 17 to bring the targeted vehicles back to the shop for the free repair.
Posted in Trucks, accident | No Comments »
Saturday, December 8th, 2007 |
An Elm Mott fire truck on the way to a car fire north of Waco crashed into a truck Friday.
State troopers said the accident happened around 9:00 Friday morning. The fire truck was heading northbound on the I-35 access road when, according to investigators, a truck pulled out in front of it.
The fire truck had the sirens and lights on, but troopers said the driver of the truck that pulled out wasn’t paying attention.
“The best thing you can do is pay attention, use your rear view mirrors, use your side mirrors, look behind you when you’re driving, so that you can move over and allow us to get around and the other emergency vehicles, the ambulances and fire trucks also,” State Trooper Chad Buenger said.
No one was injured in the crash and another fire truck was immediately dispatched to the car fire.
Posted in Trucks, accident | No Comments »
Saturday, December 8th, 2007 |
An armed carjacker and his victim are dead after the suspect took the woman and her car and crashed into a truck in Florida City.
Authorities say a couple was pumping gas shortly before dawn Friday when the carjacker jumped in the car with the female passenger still inside. Neither were identified.
Authorities chased the car, but the suspect lost control near a construction site and crashed into a semitrailer. Both vehicles burst into flames.
The stolen car was burned beyond recognition. The truck driver was taken to the hospital.
The accident closed the Overseas Highway into the Florida Keys.
Posted in Trucks, accident | No Comments »
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007 |
One man was taken to Sterling Regional MedCenter and and traffic flow on U.S. Highway 6 at the South Platte River bridges was slowed this morning after a pickup truck and semi-truck collided.
According to the truck driver, the pickup drifted into the eastbound lane and collided with the truck. The accident is still under investigation.
The Performance Plus truck was eastbound near the South Platte River bridges when the westbound Dodge Ram 2500 began to drift into the eastbound lane. The driver of the truck said he slowed the truck, then moved into the right lane to avoid a head-on collision.
Posted in Trucks, accident | No Comments »
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007 |
The Utah Highway Patrol on Saturday released the names of two men involved in a car accident Friday.
Shawn Hall, 20, of Nephi was driving north in a red and black Geo Metro on State Road 198 between Payson and Santaquin when the car was hit head-on by a Ford F-150 truck.
Hall’s brother Shane Hall, 24, also of Nephi, was riding in the passenger side of the Geo Metro. Shane Hall was pronounced dead at the scene.
Shawn Hall was flown to Utah Valley Hospital and was still in critical condition Saturday night.
Agent Cori Start, UHP spokeswoman, said before the accident the steering locked up on the truck. The driver had regained control but by then the truck was over the center line of the two-lane road and it collided with the Geo Metro. The roads were wet.
Posted in Trucks, accident | No Comments »
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007 |
A crash involving a five-tonne truck and a minivan on Highway 400 claimed the life of a motorist on Wednesday afternoon.
The collision occurred in the southbound lanes, south of Highway 89, shortly after 1 p.m.
The truck had been parked on the shoulder when a minivan lost control and slammed into its rear, Ontario Provincial Police said.
The driver of the van, a man believed to be in his 50s, was killed in the crash.
The truck driver didn’t suffer serious injuries, but was hospitalized after suffering from shock, police said.
Vehicles were rerouted around the accident.
Posted in Trucks, accident | No Comments »
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007 |
A Polish passenger train slammed into a truck and derailed on Thursday, killing two people and injuring 13 more, police said.
The train, traveling from Gdynia on the Baltic Sea cost to Zielona Gora in the southwest, rammed into the truck north of Bydgoszcz, in central Poland, police spokeswoman Katarzyna Witkowska said on TVN24 television.
The train’s conductor and a female passenger died in the crash, and the injured were rushed to hospitals in Bydgoszcz, Witkowska said.
Posted in Trucks, accident | No Comments »
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007 |
he southbound truck tunnel on Interstate 5 reopened Thursday, a month after a fiery crash killed three people and temporarily shut down the West Coast’s main commercial route.
The tunnel reopened 15 days earlier than expected, said Officer Patrick Kimball of the California Highway Patrol. Authorities initially warned that repair work could take months.
The contractor, Security Paving of Oxnard, will earn a $2.9 million bonus for completing the repairs in less than 33 days, Caltrans officials said. The work included replacement of slabs, concrete barriers and a metal guardrail.
Authorities determined that 31 vehicles — including big rigs and one passenger vehicle — were involved in the Oct. 12 crash.
Several trucks burst into flames and the fire spread from vehicle to vehicle. Flames shot nearly 100 feet in the air outside the tunnel and reached temperatures as high as 1,400 degrees.
Posted in Trucks, accident | No Comments »
