Truck Accident Lawyer

The Kansas Highway Patrol implemented a program last year to reduce the number of large-truck-related accidents on the highways.  The Trucks on Patrol for Safety, or TOPS program, places HP troopers in the cab with professional truck drivers.  Cameras are positioned on the interior and exterior of the vehicle to monitor commercial and passenger vehicle violations.

When a violation occurs, the trooper can contact Highway Patrol officers in the area to have the truck pulled over and the driver issued a citation.  At that tim troopers also educate the comercial truck driver on the dangers of large truck driving.

The TOPS program lasts 14 weeks each year.  It is seperated in to two seven week periods, each period focusing on a different portion of the state.  In this years second session patrol officers issued approximately 600 citations to passengers vehicles and only 100 to comercial vehicle drivers.

If you have been injured in an accident involving a comercial vehicle, contact the Texas Truck Accident Lawyers to discuss your case and your legal options.

In the early morning hours of June 28, a motorcyclist was killed after he crashed into an 18-wheeler in north Houston. The accident occurred around 4 a.m. in the 19800 block of Holzwarth. It is believed that the driver of the 18-wheeler was making a wide right turn onto Meadow Edge, when the truck was struck on the right side by a 2008 Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle. The motor cyclist was speeding down and lost control. He slammed into the 18-wheeler; the motorcyclist was declared dead at the scene.

A female passenger, riding on the motorcycle, was taken to Ben Taub General Hospital, where she was listed in stable condition. The driver of the truck was not injured. The cause of the accident is not known and is being investigated.

For more information, contact the Texas Truck Accident Lawyers at Williams Kherkher.

Katy McCallum is the most recent driver to collide with an 18 wheeler at the intersection of RM 967 and Main Street in Buda, Texas. On Monday afternoon, the pregnant real estate agent was driving down 967 when her car, containing her sister and three young nieces, colliding with a truck that was trying to turn onto Main Street. This intersection has a confusing design, and many drivers do not expect commercial trucks to be making right turns from the left-hand lane. McCallum’s is the third accident that police have investigated at this intersection this year. Fortunately, no one was seriously injured this time.

Town officials say they have no control over the design of the intersection, as it is state property.

If you have been injured in a collision with an 18-wheeler and believe you have grounds for a lawsuit, contact Houston truck accident lawyers Williams and Kherkher at (866) 950-9000.

Late last night, a small pick up truck collided with a semi in a large truck accident that ended fatally for one person and left the other in the hospital. Sometime after midnight, the truck and the semi were travelling opposite directions on Loop 335 in Amarillo, TX, when the collided on the road.

One man was left in the hospital and the other was pronounced dead at the scene of the Texas truck accident. Police are still investigating the cause of the accident and have not released any further information on the identities of the two men that were involved in the accident. Police have stated that they will wait until they speak with the families of the victims before they can release any further information on the details of the accident.

The Texas Department of Safety is also investigating the accident along with police to determine the cause and other details that are important to the case and the accident.

For more information, contact the Semi Truck Accident Lawyers of Williams and Kherkher at 866-950-9000.

On June 14, a tractor-trailer driving through blinding fog and smoke on a coastal highway in North Carolina struck a sheriff’s deputy and a fire fighter directing traffic early Saturday, killing them both.

North Carolina sheriff’s deputy Steven Boehm, 36, and fire fighter, Gene Thomas, 52, were killed while they were directing traffic in Onslow County along the central North Carolina coast. They were hit by a tractor trailer driven by Robert Kornegay, 51.

Although the 18-wheeler truck had slowed down because of poor visibility, the driver had not slowed enough for the conditions and struck these two officials as well as another deputy Bill Hall, who were on duty at that time. Deputy Hall suffered minor injuries and was treated at a nearby hospital.

The driver of the 18 wheeler, Robert Kornegay, was charged with two counts of misdemeanor death by vehicle and exceeding a safe speed.  For more information, contact the Truck Accident Lawyers at Williams Kherkher.