The accident happened while the young boy was playing in the street during the lunchtime hour.  He was on a skateboard when he was struck by a truck carrying coal.  Local officials and police treated the incident as an accident.

He was rushed to Cork University Hospital after sustaining critical injuries.  He was pronounced  dead by hospital staff at 2 am.

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The boy was fighting for his life in Cork University Hospital after the incident at Ardcullen in Knocknaheeney at lunchtime on Friday.

Gardaí today named the boy as Kelvin Purcell from Ardcullen, Hollyhill, Co Cork. He was set to enrol in junior infants on Monday at a primary school in Knocknaheeny.

The boy was pronounced dead in hospital after 2am.

The accident involved no other vehicles.  The tanker overturned after veering off the roadway and landing in a ditch. 

It carried a driver and one passenger in the cab.  Both riders were injured, however the extent and severity of their injuries was not immediately known.  The driver and passenger were taken to separate hospitals.

The tanker that overturned can carry up to 1700 gallons of diesel fuel.  The fuel in the truck had to be offloaded into two trucks and carried off by crews.

The police are still working to determine the cause of the accident.

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On the afternoon of August 26, 2008 a truck rolled head on into a McDonalds’s in Grand Prairie in Texas. The restaurant is located at Interstate 20 and Grand Southwest Parkway.  The 18 wheeler rammed into the outlet and created a 20 foot wide hole in the side of the building.

The truck was driven by 43 year old Adrian Vasquez. It is believed that the driver failed to properly engage his brakes.

The debris of the impact site caused injuries to two McDonald’s employees. One woman was taken to the hospital on a stretcher. The other woman was taken by a car to the hospital. Both have since been released. The cause of the accident is not known and is being investigated by the police.

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The first wreck happened around 4:15 a.m and involved a truck driver who lost control along Highway 95.  The trucker was sent to the hospital after state highway patrol troopers found him pinned by his arms under the wreckage an hour later.

Less than an hour later another semi-truck driver lost control of his big rig and slammed into the median on Interstate 90.  The large truck jack knifed, sending  debris into traffic lanes traveling in both directions.  Traffic on the Westbound side of the Interstate was backed up for 3 miles at one point.

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The driver was pronounced dead at the scene.  It could take a couple of weeks before an autopsy report determining the exact cause of death is released.

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The liquid however, did not leak.  Alden Fire Department and safety officials decided to evacuate resident within a 500 foot radius of the crash site just as a precaution.

The driver of the tractor trailer was taken to a near by hospital and was treated for injuries described as non life-threatening.

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Castillo claims he speaks English at about a third grade level.  The driver, who speaks with an accent, has no previous driving offenses and said he understood the trooper when he asked where he was heading and to see his permit.

United States law requires operators of commercial vehicles to speak English well enough to communicate with police officers.  The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has proposed rules to require anyone applying for a commercial driver’s license to speak English in a road side test.  The government claims these rules and law are to promote safety.

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Police investing the incident believe carelessnes and reckless driving could be to blame for the accident.  The 4-wheeler rider was a 16 year-old boy.  He died instantly on the scene.  The driver of the truck suffered no injuries.

The accident caused the roadway to be shut down for several hours Wednesday night as police officials conducted an investigation.  The investigation is ongoing.

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This routes is the workplaces of aproximately 5,600 commercial  sex workers with whom transportation employees engage in unprotected sex with, studies have shown.  The research found that 30% of the customers of commercial sex workers along the route are truck drivers.

Communities surrounding the border posts where truckers must stop for long periods of time to go through customs, have also seen increased rates of HIV.  The head of the research study concluded that prevention programs need to be geared towards truck drivers as well as their families.  The research did not indicate if truckers participation in unprotected sex affected their ability to safely operate commercial vehicles.

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