Delivery truck drivers for parcel delivery companies such as Amazon, UPS, FedEx, and USPS log millions of miles a year, especially during the traditional holiday season. Many of these miles are driven under extreme time pressure. Although delivery truck drivers are trained before they are sent out on the road, serious accidents involving these vehicles […]
Category Archives: Truck Accidents
No Testing of Truckers for Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Two federal agencies—the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA)—have withdrawn a rule they put forth in March, 2016, concerning testing for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). This action was taken despite the fact that OSA has been demonstrated to cause “unintended sleep episodes and resulting deficits in attention, concentration, situational […]
Takata Airbag Explosion: Fatal Hazmat Truck Crash in Texas
Yet another fatality involving Takata air bags has happened, but it wasn’t the kind of accident you might be imagining. In August, 2016, near Quemado, Texas, a truck carrying Takata air bag inflators and propellant with ammonium nitrate crashed in a one-vehicle accident, then caught fire and blew up. The explosion demolished a house and […]
Truck Collision Sends Driver off Chesapeake Bay Bridge
A 22-year-old woman was recently released from the Maryland Shock Trauma Center after surviving a collision with a semi truck that sent her car off the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and into the water 40 feet below, according to the Maryland Transportation Authority Police. The woman was traveling east on the Bay Bridge when a tractor-trailer […]
Truck Hits and Possibly Damages Overpass in Baltimore
The Baltimore Sun reported this week that a recent accident in which a large flatbed truck struck a Baltimore Beltway overpass sent debris and metal in the path of oncoming cars. The flatbed truck, owned by the company Six M Co. Inc. of Whiteford, was carrying an excavator from a nearby construction site. The southbound […]
Ford Recalls 150,000 F-150 Pickup Trucks for Accidental Air Bag Deployment
Ford Motor Co. is recalling about 150,000 F-150 pickup trucks from model years 2005-2006 because of the potential chance that the air bags will deploy without warning. An MSNBC article states that the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration (NHTSA) has received reports of 98 injuries from unintended air bag deployment. The government has reportedly […]
Police Officer Injured by Truck on Baltimore-Washington Parkway
According to The Baltimore Sun, a male police officer was injured while conducting a routine traffic stop on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway near Route 197. After having pulled a vehicle over to the side of the road, the officer parked, exited his own vehicle, and began writing up the traffic citation. A pickup truck, having left […]
Chesapeake Bay Bridge Accident Results in Death of Truck Driver
A 57-year-old truck driver was killed on August 10, 2008, when a woman fell asleep at the wheel, crossed into oncoming traffic, and caused him to lose control of his truck which plunged off the bridge. According to this Washington Post report, 19-year-old Candy Lynn Baldwin admitted to reporters and Maryland police officials that she […]