Category: Truck Accidents

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...

Semi-truck accidents caused by driver fatigue can expose truck drivers to liability for any injuries or deaths resulting from the crash. The key factor is the driver's negligence: whether that driver failed to exercise the kind of reasonable care expected under the circumstances. One truck driver has been charged...

Most Marylanders are aware that driving can be a dangerous activity, knowing that tens of thousands of Americans die in auto accidents every year. Yet, this knowledge does little to deter most people from driving every day out of convenience or necessity. A common cause for the high rate of motor vehicle...

An accident on the I-95 overpass created quite the unusual scene when an unoccupied BMW attached to a flat-bed tow truck was seen hanging off the guardrail. The multiple motor vehicle accident occurred when a tractor trailer heading southbound collided with a passenger car in...

It will come as no surprise to Maryland readers that driving can be a dangerous activity. Small moments of driver's negligence can translate into a dangerous moment which threatens the safety of all those on the road. Most of these moments pass without incident, but not all of them. Sometimes, unfortunately,...

Maryland state police officers will be targeting truckers who, for a variety of reasons including driver fatigue, illegally park alongside Interstate 83. If they can increase compliance from these commercial vehicle drivers, then they may be able to reduce accidents. Parking along highway shoulders creates a scenario that is dangerous for other...

Recently a deadly truck crash occurred on Interstate 81 outside Hagerstown, Maryland when a tractor-trailer crossed the median into the northbound lanes. Design Transport, an out-of-state company, operated the truck that collided head-on with the vehicle of a Maryland resident. The driver of the vehicle struck by the tractor-trailer was fatally injured....

One recent motor vehicle accident in Prince George's County appears to be something more sinister--a deliberate act. According to a local news report, the driver of a school bus purposely crashed the bus into a building at her workplace. Three people were injured in the motor vehicle crash, although all were reportedly...