Semi Trucks

A collision between a UPS delivery truck and a Volkswagen caused the closure of Banfield Road Tuesday afternoon.

police were called to the area about a mile off Peverly HIll Road, where the Volkswagen left the road and came to a stop nose-down in a ditch. The car’s air bags deployed and extensive front-end damage was visible as it was towed from the scene.

Spider web cracks in the UPS truck windshield indicated the driver may have impacted the window, while the truck also showed signs of front-end and axle damage. An 18-wheeler tow truck was needed to haul it from the scene.

Officer Scott Pearl, who assisted at the crash site, said no one was injured.

Inbound traffic from Peverly Hill Road was diverted for almost an hour.

One in every three trucks in the country is overloaded and they are to blame for 50 per cent of road accidents, surveys by the Indian Foundation of Transport Research and Training have found.

Around three-fourths of the annual Rs 550 billion loss from road accidents was attributed to the unorganised truck transport industry. The foundation said over 92,500 people were killed each year in road accidents in the country coming under the wheels of the overloaded vehicles. Delhi leads the metro casualty count.

Most trucks were found overloaded by 25-50 per cent.

Senior fellow and coordinator of the foundation, S.P. Singh, said: “When a truck is overloaded by 10 per cent, its steering and brake control is reduced by 50 and 40 per cent, respectively. Overloading also reduces the productive life of the road by 80 per cent and the productive life of the truck by 30 per cent.”

A WOMAN was being transported to hospital after the car she was in collided with a truck on the Gateway Motorway on Brisbane’s southern outskirts this morning.
The car collided with a semi-tralier near where the Gateway joins the Logan Motorway at Drewvale, south of Sunnybank.

The woman was taken to the Logan Hospital with unknown injuries.

It’s understood the driver of the truck escaped largely unharmed.

One eastbound lane of the motorway remains closed as emergency services clear the wreckage.

Traffic is also severely banked up on Coronation Drive after a crash between a truck and a car near Cribb St, before 6am today.

The collison forced the closure of two lanes.

Traffic is finally getting back to normal near Goshen tonight (Monday).
An early morning rollover accident caused a back up in the northbound lanes for two miles.

The driver of a semi says he has no idea what caused him to lose control earlier this morning. The accident happened around five thirty this morning at milepost 188, traffic was snarled into late afternoon, as crews worked to get the truck off its side.

A spokesperson with the oregon department of transportation says this is a really bad spot for an accident to happen. “This is a really bad choke point a real inconvenient place to have a crash, because we can see what it does to traffic,” says Joe Harwood with the Oregon Department of Transportation.

The truck was carrying hazardous material, so a haz-mat crew was called in to get everything cleaned up. Just after two this afternoon the trailer was tipped back up onto its wheels.

Five people were killed when two trucks collided on the N1 highway near Edenburg, police said on Saturday.

Police spokesperson Inspector Harry Nagel the accident happened around 5am on Saturday about 25 kilometres out of Edenburg towards Bloemfontein.

“The trucks collided head-on. Three people that were in one truck burned to death.”

Nagel said the two people in the other truck were killed instantly in the accident.

The N1 highway was closed to clean up the accident scene.

A tanker truck hauling gasoline crashed and exploded Thursday afternoon on Interstate 35E in Lake Dallas, killing the driver and shutting down the highway in both directions between Lewisville and Denton.

Two men inside the truck were burned in the accident, and one of them later died.

Texas state troopers said the truck was northbound shortly before 2 p.m. when the driver abruptly hit the brakes and lost control, clipping a car and striking a median barrier. The truck overturned across the median and burst into flames.

A witness said the driver was engulfed in flames when he jumped out of the truck.

A TOOWOOMBA truck driver has appealed the severity of his sentence following a truck accident in Inverell last December.

Victor Alan Newsome, 54, appeared in Inverell Local Court on Friday where he faced a number of charges in relation to a B-double crash on the Warialda Rd on December 15.

Mr Newsome was given a five-month non-parole sentence and disqualified from driving for three years.

He pleaded guilty to driving whilst under the influence of a drug.

Blood tests taken from Mr Newsome revealed he had amounts of phentermine, amphetamine, methylamphetamine, alprozalam, midazolam and morphine.

The RTA heavy vehicle inspectors found seven defects with Mr Newsome’s truck including incorrect brake adjustments. Mr Newsome lost control of his fully laden B-double truck and ploughed into a house, which was unoccupied at the time. The adjacent house also sustained damage from the accident.

Two firefighters are hurt after their truck crashed on the way to a call in Union County.

Crews on the scene tell Volunteer TV that the truck was heading to a call of a car accident at Tuesday on Highway 61.

They say the truck came around a curve, hit a rock, and ran onto an embankment near North Ridgeview Road.

Paramedics transported a volunteer firefighter to Saint Mary’s Hospital, and another firefighter went to the hospital in a personal vehicle.

A terrible accident on Highway 271 sends 2 children to the hospital.

That accident happened just south of Gladewater

Two seperate helicopters were called to the scene to help transport the victims.

Smith and Gregg County troopers responded to what they say was a terrible accident.

Troopers say Robert Jordan of Kilgore was driving a SUV North on 271, when he somehow veered off into the Southbound lane of the highway.

That’s when troopers say Jordan crashed into a truck driven by Gregory Johnson of Longview.

A tanker truck overturned in Jefferson City, closing both lanes of U.S. 54 and causing nearby schools to evacuate.

The Missouri Highway Patrol says no injuries have been reported as authorities work to clean up the scene and put out fires.

The truck overturned Tuesday on U.S. 54 near Madison and Jefferson streets in Jefferson City.

Witnesses reported seeing a large plume of smoke for miles.

Evacuations were conducted in the immediate area including South School and nearby Trinity Lutheran School.

Police also closed the Jefferson Street overpass crossing the highway because of concern over damage to the structure from the fire.