Category Archives: Trucking Accidents
Officials report injury accident involved a tractor
On Oct. 27, the Tennessee Highway Patrol reported that a Washington County traffic accident involving a tractor resulted in the hospitalization of one of the drivers. The incident reportedly took place on Old State Route 34 in Jonesborough. According to the THP, a tractor hauling a load of hay collided with a 1992 Buick… Read More »
Woman killed by pumpkin truck
A 66-year-old woman in Tennessee was killed after she was involved in a trucking accident on Oct. 8. The incident reportedly occurred around 3:30 a.m. in Donelson. According to local reports, a 34-year-old male driver for Iceline Logistics crashed a semi-trailer into her home. The driver was reportedly hauling 40,000 pounds of pumpkins from… Read More »
2 workers injured on interstate in Tennessee
Two Department of Transportation workers in Tennessee were seriously injured in an auto accident that occurred on Sept. 4. The incident happened at approximately 1:45 p.m. near mile marker 99 on the westbound side of Interstate 24. According to local reports, the accident was caused by traffic beginning to slow down on the interstate…. Read More »
Fiery I-75 crash kills 1, injures 3
The Tennessee Highway Patrol says that one person died and three other people were injured on Aug. 27 in an accident involving at least one passenger vehicle and two semi-trucks that caught fire. The crash happened in Campbell County on Interstate 75 shortly after 3 p.m. According to police statements, a northbound semi-truck traveled… Read More »
Police: Truck making illegal turn caused deadly accident
Authorities in Tennessee are blaming the actions of a tractor-trailer driver for a deadly accident on Tuesday, Aug. 5. Reports from the scene of the semi accident state that an 18-year-old woman is dead and two others are injured. The Moorsburg woman was traveling northbound on Highway 11 in a 2000 Daewoo passenger vehicle… Read More »
Hours of service rule helps curb fatigue among truck drivers
Truck accidents can be frightening due to the sizes of the vehicles and trailers involved. Tennessee residents who are concerned with safety as they share the roads with semi-trucks may wonder about issues like fatigue and the health of truck drivers. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration was established to oversee such issues in… Read More »
Truck accident kills 4, injures 4
A fiery five-vehicle crash that happened on June 25 killed four people and injured four others on Interstate 40 in West Tennessee. The Tennessee Highway Patrol says that an earlier accident had slowed down traffic just west of the Brownsville exit in Haywood County between Jackson and Memphis. As a westbound Lexus slowed around… Read More »
Truck driver fatigue a factor in highway accidents
Media coverage of the serious injuries suffered by comedian Tracy Morgan and the death of passenger in his rented limo bus has focused attention on a problem that exists on highways in Tennessee and throughout the U.S. Commercial drivers who fail to obey federal trucking regulations limiting the number of hours they can be… Read More »
2 dead after multi-vehicle accident on the I-40 in Knoxville
According to reports, two people were killed in a crash in Knoxville that occurred on May 30. The truck accident took place on Interstate 40 near Asheville Highway and involved several vehicles. Reports suggest that lane closures stemming from the crash caused traffic to back up for miles. The crash involved 6 vehicles, including… Read More »
The difficult problem of enforcing bus safety laws nationwide
It was less than six months ago that a bus accident in Tennessee killed eight people and injured an additional 14. The group of senior citizens aboard the bus was a church group on its way home to North Carolina from a religious gathering when the accident occurred on Interstate 40 near Newport. The… Read More »
