Officials with the Greensboro Police Department stated today that driver fatigue was to blame for an 18-wheeler truck crashing into a home Monday morning. According to police, Gene Drake, 44, either fell asleep or became drowsy when he drove his truck over a median on US Highway 29 and smashed through a vacant home in Greensboro, North Carolina. Drake suffered minor… Read More
Three people were injured yesterday in a wreck involving two 18-wheelers on Interstate 10 near Tucson, Arizona. A passenger vehicle was also involved in the crash. The incident unfolded when one of the 18-wheelers blew a tire while heading west on I-10, causing the driver to lose control of the vehicle. The 18-wheeler then veered into the median, flipped on… Read More
Gerrick Butler, 55, died early Saturday morning after crossing over the median of a road and crashing head-on into another vehicle. The incident took place near Red Bird in South Dallas at about 2:45 a.m. After slamming head-on into the other vehicle, Butler’s car crashed into a tree. According to police Butler died at the scene. Read More
An unidentified 18-wheeler driver died in a crash on Interstate 26 in Saluda, North Carolina. The incident occurred Monday morning. Authorities with the North Carolina Highway Patrol reported that the 18-wheeler was driving west on I-26 when it ran off the road in between two bridges before crashing onto Macedonia Road, taking out part of the… Read More
The driver of an 18-wheeler truck died Thursday morning after his large truck overturned early in the morning. The wreck occurred at about 3 a.m. in Lower Providence Township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Jeremy Marquette, 44, was hauling several thousand gallons of milk when his truck overturned at the 500 block of South Park Avenue, according… Read More
Ashley Michelle Mathews, from Williamston, Wyoming, was killed Monday when her vehicle was hit by an 18-wheeler truck. Christopher Albert Burton, 30, was injured with a fractured vertebra in the wreck. According to reports, Chad Henderson, 50, was driving an 18-wheeler truck when he said he reached down to grab some candy. In doing so, Henderson… Read More
A fire truck responding to an emergency in Dallas was involved in a multi-vehicle accident Thursday morning at about 11 a.m. The fire truck, responding to a call on a structure fire, was headed through a red light at the intersection of Jim Miller Road and R.L. Thornton when it was hit by a Chevy pickup… Read More
Five people were killed Tuesday in a crash on Interstate 95 near Rowland, North Carolina in a crash involving several large tractor-trailer trucks. According to the North Carolina Highway Patrol, three adults and two children were killed in the wreck. The children were identified as Sianna Spennati, 1, and Aila Spennati, 4, from Goose Creek, South… Read More