Trucking Accident

A 45-year-old DeFuniak Springs man is facing careless driving charges after causing a Florida truck accident on U.S. Highway 90 recently. Florida Highway Patrol officers investigating the accident say that the driver was driving his tractor-trailer westbound on U.S. 90 when he rear-ended a Chevrolet Silverado around 12:38 p.m. The impact caused the semi to roll over and slide on its passenger side across the busy highway, completely blocking the eastbound lanes and partially blocking the westbound lanes.
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Ocala.com reports that a three vehicle trucking accident on Interstate 75 early on the morning of December 1, 2009, sent one person to a local hospital with injuries described as non-life threatening. Troopers with the Florida Highway Patrol said that one of the vehicles involved in the accident was a semi truck loaded with 150 Christmas trees. When the article was published, troopers were not yet certain about the cause of the auto accident, but they believe that the accident began when a Dodge Ram 1500 pickup truck broke down in the right lane of I-75.
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A recent article describes a trucking accident that led to the evacuation of nearby homes and businesses in Santa Rosa. The tanker truck was carrying anhydrous ammonia on the morning of September 16, 2009 on Avalon Blvd. near the I10 Intersection with exit 22. As the driver attempted to turn north off I10 onto exit 22, the driver lost control of the semi. It overturned on the shoulder of Avalon Boulevard. Homes and businesses within half a mile of the crash were evacuated by emergency response personnel.

When exposed to air, anhydrous ammonia is transformed from a gaseous state to a liquid and becomes a serious breathing hazard that can cause severe blisters and burns to exposed skin. After the trucking accident, law enforcement authorities closed I10 from exits 17 to 26 and re-routed motorists onto Highway 90. Schools within a three-mile radius were also evacuated, a measure consistent with overturned tanker trucks with potentially ruptured tanks of hazardous chemicals.

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A truck accident has resulted in the death of a man driving a van who was hit by a semi-truck driving on State Road 33. Florida Highway Patrol officers investigated the fatal Florida truck accident that occurred on S.R. 33 near the intersection with Pine Island Road. The Orlando Sentinel claims that the tractor-trailer was driven by a 38-year-old Texas man who was southbound on S.R. 33 when he realized that he was heading in the wrong direction.

According to accident investigators, the truck driver attempted to back into a private drive along the east shoulder of S.R. 33 to get turned around and had backed his trailer across the highway’s northbound lane. The man killed in the Florida truck accident was a 56-year-old Haines City man driving a Chevrolet van that was northbound on S.R. 33 and impacted the left side of the semi’s trailer. Police say he tried to stop before hitting the trailer, but was unable to avoid hitting the trailer. Read the rest »