Indianapolis Personal Injury Lawyer articles in category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents

A semi-truck carrying steel coils overturned in a trucking accident on I-74 in Decatur County, killing the truck driver. Officials shut down the interstate for a time this morning to allow rescue...

A truck driver, 47, of Chicago, was killed in a trucking accident near Indianapolis this morning.The tractor-trailer driver drifted off the highway and went down an embankment and struck some trees before going through a fence. A fence post flipped up, came through the truck's windshield and impaled the driver. He was pronounced dead at the scene by Marion County Coroner's Office, according to...

A trucking accident, Monday, forced U.S. 31 to close while the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency tested for the after-effects of liquid petroleum gas released in the accident.The accident occurred when the gas truck slowed to a stop for a train and a second truck crashed into the tanker. One of the semi-trucks was hauling liquid natural gas (cryogenic liquid), according to reports by Indiana...

A serious truck accident on Monday night closed down Southbound I-69 for several hours.According to investigators, a box truck rear ended a semi truck near the Lapel exit, which led to a grass fire. Two semi truck drivers pulled the box truck driver, 35, of Nashville, Indiana from the burning vehicle to safety.He suffered second and third degree burns to his body in the accident. Paramedics...

A truck driver that could have faced up to 24 years in prison was sentenced to 4 years, Tuesday, for causing a truck accident that claimed the lives of five people.The truck accident occurred on April 26, 2006 when his semi-trailer crashed with a Taylor University van. The driver had fallen asleep behind the wheel, according to authorities.A school employee and four students were killed in the...

Police are reviewing cell phone records to see if being on the phone caused an Insight Communications driver to swerve and crash head-on into a Mack truck, in a trucking accident Thursday. The driver, 45, died at Wishard Memorial Hospital following the accident which occurred at 10:30 a.m. An accident eyewitness told The Noblesville Ledger that she approached the truck and found Cooper pinned...

An Indianapolis woman was killed in a trucking accident, on Interstate 69, Thursday, when a semi-truck driver failed to notice slow moving traffic and crashed into her vehicle from behind, police said.The 29-year-old woman was killed instantly in the wreck that occurred at 9:15am, said the Delaware County Deputy Coroner. Indiana State Police were escorting an oversized load, from Guide Corp....

A tractor-trailer flipped onto its side this morning around 7:45 and caused major headaches for rush-hour travelers. The truck accident occurred on northbound I-65 around mile marker 135 and authorities checked the rig's driver for minor injuries. Luckily none of the interstate's lanes were blocked by the overturned 18-wheeler involved in the wreck.