Category: Truck Accidents

Accidents involving cars and tractor-trailers are terrifying, considering that commercial trucks are huge and considerably heavier than passenger vehicles. Those types of motor vehicle crashes may result in injuries or fatalities. Many Laurel area residents may have heard about the terrifying tractor-trailer accident that occurred recently. According to sources, a...

The involvement of a truck in a motor vehicle accident can turn what otherwise would be a minor collision into a tragic accident. Merely by judging the size of a truck, someone can visualize the potential damage it may cause. Other vehicles, such as cars and motorcycles, are simply no match in...

Commercial vehicles, such as tractor-trailers, are widely used by various industries for transporting different types of freight. The presence of trucks on roads and highways is at an all-time high. In Laurel, most motorists probably watch out for trucks, like semis and tractor-trailers, because those vehicles can cause catastrophic accidents.

Trucks come in and out of roadways in Maryland every day. As heavy lifters, these vehicles usually carry large loads of various goods for different kinds of businesses. They may carry large quantities of electronic equipment or petroleum products. Because of the size of trucks, they may also impose potential risks toward...

The trucks that travel Maryland roads can weigh thousands of pounds, therefore, a truck colliding with a passenger vehicle can be extremely damaging. The sheer size of a truck can be overpowering to a passenger vehicle. As a result, motor vehicle accidents involving trucks may lead to injuries or fatalities. However, if...

At any given point in the day, there is likely a large commercial truck driving down Interstate 95. From package delivery drivers to large 18-wheel-semi-trucks, commercial drivers are always present on the roads. Most Maryland drivers are used to sharing the road with these giants but just a like large animal, if...

A collision involving a tractor-trailer recently left one dead and two injured on the Inner Loop of the Beltway in Maryland. For as-yet-unknown reasons, the truck drifted off the road and struck a man who was fixing a flat tire on his vehicle. The vehicle was parked on the shoulder of the...

Seven motorists were recently injured in a chain-reaction collision between a volunteer fire department truck, a tractor-trailer and an SUV on the Beltway. According to investigators, the fire truck was attempting to make a U-turn in a cut-through meant for the exclusive use of emergency vehicles when the tractor-trailer hit the fire...

Maryland State Police are investigating a Beltway collision between a tractor-trailer and an SUV that left two drivers injured. The auto accident happened after the SUV while attempting to switch into the slow lane so it could exit the highway, was hit by the tractor-trailer, which dragged the smaller vehicle over the...

A pedestrian who may have been attempting to cross a highway was killed recently when he was hit by a tractor-trailer, according to the Maryland State Police. Because they are so large, heavy and unwieldy, tractor-trailers are an especially severe road hazard to anything and anyone they hit in motor vehicle accidents.