Tractor-Trailer Accidents

• Dangers of Driving Behind Tractor-trailer

  Linda Chalat | October 01, 2010 4:02 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  On Tuesday afternoon this week, a steel beam went into the windshield of an SUV during a three-vehicle accident that closed the northbound lanes of Interstate 25 at Alameda Avenue for almost four...

• Crackdown by Colorado State Patrol

  Linda Chalat | July 21, 2010 8:23 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  A crackdown on motorists who drive unsafely around trucks on interstate highways leading into Denver was announced last week by the Colorado State Patrol. The CPS launched a new educational and...

• New Colorado Law to Speed Up Truckers

  Linda Chalat | July 01, 2010 1:01 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  Colorado Senate Bill 196 takes effect today, requiring truckers driving on Interstate 70 to start moving over for faster traffic. The law also requires trucks in left lanes going up hills with...

• Truck Ramps Save Lives

  Linda Chalat | June 30, 2010 10:40 AM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  The last runaway truck ramp on westbound Interstate 70 before Silverthorne was used four times in the past month. That probably means four terrible wrecks were avoided. In the 1970s, trucks would...

• Semi Collides With Van And Catches Fire

  Chrissie Cole | November 27, 2009 2:46 AM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  A tractor-trailer fire closed down Westbound Interstate 70 near Floyd Hill for at least two hours as authorities worked to clean up the accident. According to Colorado State Patrol, a van hit...

• Truck Driver Charged With Careless Driving

  Chrissie Cole | February 15, 2009 6:25 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  A Nebraska man, 34, lost his life on Friday night when his car struck an overturned tractor-trailer in Yuma County. According to Trooper Gilbert Mares of the Colorado State Patrol, a...

• Fatigue a Factor in Another Semi-Truck Accident

  Linda Snyder | March 03, 2008 7:56 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  Troopers say 54-year-old James Strauss of Oklahoma City, Okla., was driving east in a fully-loaded semi-truck on I-70, when his vehicle went off the right side of the highway, between an embankment and a guardrail. The semi-truck then rolled onto its right side and slid down an embankment where it struck the concrete support pillar under I-70, leaving it entangled within the remaining support...

• Semi-Truck Nearly Breaks Apart in Collision

  Chrissie Cole | June 01, 2007 2:01 AM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  In a trucking accident, Thursday, a semi-truck crashed with such extreme force that it nearly broke apart and sent wreckage flying over a half mile radius of the accident location."This is one of the worst accidents involving vehicular damage I have witnessed in over 27 years of response to Interstate accidents," Lake Dillon Fire-Rescue Deputy Chief said.The accident happened at approximately...