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Truck Accident, Fire, Causes Evacuation In Rutherford County, Tennessee What Happens If the First Responders Make an Error 18-wheeler accidents can easily cause injuries far away from the scene of the accident, as a recent incident in Tennessee came very close to demonstrating. *** A tractor trailer accident and fire in Rutherford County, Tennessee (Murfeesboro area) led to a shelter-in-place order for the entire county which was later amended to a precautionary evacuation of about 150 homes in a nearby…

  A woman in Colorado was killed when the Toyota Camry in which she drove was a stuck by two errant wheels off a tractor trailer, which was traveling southbound on I-25 in Colorado, reports say. The wheels, which separated from the trailer, bounced over the median of the highway and struck the roof of the Camry, which was headed northbound on I-25. Reports say that the two wheels on the rear of the driver’s side of the semi-truck simply…

As he walked behind a truck, a an oil and gas “swamper” tripped as the truck was backing up with a load and was killed when the vehicle drove over him, reports say. The workplace accident occurred in June when a drilling rig was being moved to another site. With approximately ten loads remaining to transport off the site, a pole truck driver and his helper – or swamper — were relocating a grated landing. A sling had been secured…

A traffic accident in the 14800 block of the Katy Freeway, also known as Interstate Highway 10 West, occurred about 12:10 a.m. March 25 between two tractor trailer rigs, leaving one man dead. A blue International tractor trailer truck, with Tennessee license plates, was traveling westbound on the Katy Freeway when the driver failed to control his speed and struck a white Peterbilt tractor trailer truck, transporting sporting goods. After being struck in the rear end, the second truck then…

Houston police continue their investigation of a fatal car crash on the popular Southwest Freeway (U. S. Highway 59 South) service road near South Gessner that occurred about 3:30 a.m. March 29th. The accident occurred when the driver of a white Chevrolet truck, traveling outbound on the Southwest Freeway service road, reportedly struck a white Nissan Frontier pickup truck traveling northbound on South Gessner. The victim, a male passenger in the Nissan, was partially ejected from the vehicle and was…