Tractor-Trailer Accidents

• Obama Appointment for Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is Stunning

  Greg Webb | September 30, 2009 3:26 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  President Obama made a strange appointment regarding who would become leader of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA). Although Obama has passed an order stating he would...

• Four Out of Five Ain’t Bad? – Research Finds 1 out of 5 Trucks Unfit

  Greg Webb | September 02, 2009 9:54 AM | 4 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Recently, a new batch of statistics has emerged from research done by the American Association for Justice (AAJ) regarding motor carrier safety violations. Violations found include such unsafe...

• Tractor-Trailers Make Interstate 81 A Dangerous Ride

  Greg Webb | August 03, 2009 10:08 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Interstate 81 runs from central Tennessee to the Canadian border, offering picturesque views of the Shenandoah Valley and the Blue Ridge Mountains as it winds through Virginia. Drivers, however,...

• Increased Scrutiny For Bus Industry Due To Recent Crashes

  Greg Webb | August 20, 2008 10:18 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Texas legislators and safety experts have asked for tougher enforcement of motor carrier regulations after an illegal bus crashed in North Texas, killing seventeen Vietnamese Catholics from...

• Truck and Bus Drivers, Though Medically Unfit, Are Still On Roads

  Greg Webb | August 06, 2008 9:00 AM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  The Government Accountability Office, a government watchdog, has found about 4%, or 563,000 U.S. truck and bus driving license holders are receiving full federal disability benefits while still...

• New Trucking Technology Can Aid Accident and Crash Victims

  Greg Webb | July 27, 2008 8:20 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Trucking companies have started using a variety of hi-tech devices, such as GPS systems, on-board computers, electronic logging and satellite and wireless tracking, which are changing the face...

• Trucking Company Pays For Reckless Driving Death of Two Children

  Greg Webb | December 19, 2007 9:30 AM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  In a Madera County, California case, Brundage-Bone Concrete Pumping, a nationwide concrete pumping company, has agreed to pay nine million dollars in a wrongful death lawsuit to the parents of two children killed in an automobile accident involving one of the company's trucks. The two sisters, Korren Radke, seven years old, and Chloe Baker, two years old, were killed last June when the company's...

• Tractor Trailer Crash Yields $36.5 Million Award To Crash Victim's Family

  Greg Webb | December 16, 2007 3:44 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  In April 2004, Thomas Steven, a Wichita businessman and father of eight, was killed in an automobile accident due to the negligence of Steven Jones, a Swift tractor trailer driver. Swift is one of the largest trucking companies in the United States, hauling goods and cargo for such companies as Wal-Mart, Target, and Rite-Aid. Jones failed to slow down on a sweeping flat curve leading to an...

• $1M Settlement in Trucking Accident Lawsuit

  Bryan Slaughter | March 09, 2007 8:56 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Michie Hamlett attorneys Greg Webb and Bryan Slaughter obtained a $1,000,000 confidential settlement on behalf of their client, who was hit head by a large truck on his way to work one morning. The truck crossed the center line and hit the plaintiff's vehicle, pushing plaintiff off of the road with the truck resting partially on the plaintiff's vehicle when the vehicles came to rest. Plaintiff...

• Man Dies in Fiery Crash

  Christina Cole | February 02, 2007 10:01 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  According to Virginia State Police, one of three victims killed Sunday in a three vehicle accident involving a gas tanker has been identified as a Haymarket man.Weeks was killed during an early morning chain reaction crash on I-66 west of Fairfax County.At 3:50 am the gas-tanker truck crashed into the rear of Week's 2000 Jeep, which than crashed the rear of a 1996 Volvo station wagon. The gas...