Accident Facts A truck driver is being charged with failure to maintain the lane after he drove a 2000 Freightliner box truck through the guardrail on eastbound Interstate 20 and into the Augusta Canal. Driver Brent Whitlock escaped with minimal harm and swam to the shore. His dog was in the truck with him and…
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Fatal Accident Involving Truck Company with History of Poor Vehicle Maintenance
Accident Facts Flying debris from a tractor-trailer’s transmission took an eight-year-old boy’s life and permanently injured his mother, according to WGLC-TV. The Georgia State Patrol report that the Chevrolet Trailblazer, in which Cameron Mcilwain was traveling with his mother, Jameka Nicole Malone, and his infant sister, Kanary Malone, was heading westbound I-20 near downtown Atlanta.…
Read More »Teen Boy Dies in Accident with Semi Truck
Accident Facts A teenage boy is dead after an accident involving his pick-up truck and a tractor-trailer on the Bobby Jones expressway. The youth, Taylor Durrence, lost control of his vehicle and swerved, hitting the semi truck carrying diesel fuel head on. Nineteen-year-old Durrence was killed instantly. The semi truck driver was not injured, although…
Read More »Semi Truck Driver Killed in Single Vehicle Accident
Accident Facts A late night semi truck accident proved fatal for the unnamed driver on June 28. The single vehicle accident involved a truck that flipped over between the Chatham and Lynes Parkways in the westbound lanes of Interstate 16 in Savannah, Georgia. The tractor-trailer reportedly took out roughly 150 feet of guardrail and some…
Read More »Georgia Firefighters Injured in Accident Involving Tractor-trailers
Accident Facts The first of three related accidents in the eastbound lanes of I-16 occurred on Wednesday between a tractor-trailer and a Toyota. Within minutes, that wreck led to another between a charter bus and a Ford Explorer. Then, as the Macon-Bibb fire department prepared to leave the scene of the first two accidents, two…
Read More »Woman’s death in Clayton County likely preventable if tractor trailer had followed regulations
CLAYTON COUNTY, GA – A 76-year-old Georgia woman was killed on Dec. 4 when she drove into the back of a tractor-trailer parked on Interstate 285 just west of Clark Howell Highway in Clayton County, Georgia. Captain Tina Daniel of Clayton Police told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution “it was a horrible accident.” She said the woman…
Read More »Southern Gospel Band Tour Bus Accident Near Atlanta, GA
DAWSONVILLE, GA – The driver of a pickup truck was critically injured when he crashed into a tour bus for a popular southern gospel band on Georgia State Route 400 in Dawsonville near Atlanta, GA on September 1, 2010. Dawsonville is in Dawson County Georgia in the northern part of the state about 57 miles…
Read More »Semi Truck Crash on I-20 Near Augusta, GA Injures Two
THOMSON, GA – Both drivers of a semi truck and a flatbed truck were injured in a crash on Interstate 20 near Thomson, GA on Thursday, August 5, 2010. The big rig driver was critically injured in the accident. Thomson is in McDuffie County, Georgia in the northeastern part of the state about 37 miles…
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