Tractor-Trailer Accidents

• 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...