According to Ohio news reports, Interstate 70 was shut down for several hours on Wednesday afternoon following a truck accident involving multi-vehicles. Reports detail that the truck accident caused a chain reaction that shut down both lanes of traffic on the interstate. State Highway Patrol troopers are blaming the truck accident on a semi-truck…
Ohio Interstate 75 was shut down for nearly 8 hours from Monroe to Liberty Turnpike due to a truck accident that caused a tanker truck to spill gas on the southbound lanes of the interstate, according to the Butler County Emergency Management Agency. Traffic was rerouted at Ohio 129 onto the Liberty Way exit…
According to one legal news source, over 500,000 trucking accidents occur every year in the United States. Approximately 5,000 of these truck accidents result in fatalities and even more result in serious injury or property damage. Many of these truck accident cases rely on evidence obtained from the commercial rigs themselves such as driver…
An 80-year-old woman, from Warren, was severely injured in a truck accident and was flown by helicopter to a Cleveland hospital Thursday after her vehicle collided with a truck entering the roadway from a private drive. The Southington Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol reported that the elderly woman was driving south on…
A professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and world-famous Alzheimer’s disease researcher was killed in a car accident December 19. The man in the other car, who fled the scene, also was found dead near the scene. According to a recent story by CBS News, the researcher was walking along a road…
Recently, the Ohio Legislature passed a new amendment changing the current speed limit on the Ohio Turnpike from 65 miles per hour to 70 mph. This speed limit increase goes into effect on April 1, 2011 for all motorists including commercial truck drivers. In one of our previous blog posts last week, we reported…
Two children were seriously injured and transported to a Columbus hospital after a two vehicle accident in Muskingum County. Local news reports detail that two children were hospitalized after being seriously injured in a truck accident. Both children are currently being treated in a Columbus hospital for injuries sustained in Sunday’s crash. “According to…
According to recent blogs and news sources, the Ohio Turnpike Commission is attempting to increase the speed limits on the Ohio Turnpike. The Commission would like to raise the speed limit for cars and truck to 70 miles per hour from the already posted limit of 65. However, not everyone is thrilled about this…
State officials and environmental services responded to the scene of a truck accident involving a semi truck and another vehicle. According to news reports, “Troopers from the Lebanon Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol said the accident caused hundreds of gallons of diesel fuel to spill and it tying up traffic on northbound…
Two children and two adults are recovering from a truck accident on Thursday this week. The truck accident occurred when a pickup truck crashed into a parked utility truck, causing the utility worker to be thrown from the truck’s elevated bucket. Reports detail that the children, who were riding in the pickup with a…