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First sleepy trucker case settled for $3 million, sleep-apnea rules to come
The first lawsuit against a commercial carrier blaming sleep apnea for contributing to a fatal highway crash was settled earlier this month in Texas. Wanda Lindsay, who became an activist against sleep apnea in the trucking industry after her husband
Highway crash kills truck driver, leaves mother and daughters dangling from bridge
A harrowing crash near the Southern California town of Buellton Thursday left a tractor trailer driver dead and three people in a mangled BMW hanging perilously over the side of a bridge on a mountainous stretch of Highway 101.
Korean nationals injured in Nevada Amtrak crash sue truck company
Personal-injury and wrongful-death lawsuits continue to pile up against John Davis Trucking Company of Battle Mountain, Nevada, after one of its trucks ran a crossing gate and slammed into the side of a double-decker Amtrak train June 24, killing five
NTSB report releases first details about fatal helicopter crash
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released a preliminary report Tuesday outlining its investigation of the December 26 helicopter crash near Green Cove Springs, Florida, that killed the pilot and two passengers on a medical mission to retrieve a donor
Broken lights, marsh fire, fog may have contributed to New Orleans I-10 pileup
A deadly pileup of more than 40 vehicles on Interstate 10 West outside New Orleans Thursday killed two Louisiana men and injured 62 others, many of them critically. Pictures and raw video of the pre-dawn pileup show the mangled wreckage
Florida heart transplant flight crash kills three
A medical transport flight carrying a donor heart to a recipient in Jacksonville, Florida, crashed into a wooded area of north Florida around 6:00 Monday morning, killing the pilot, a heart surgeon, and an organ procurement technician.
Unsafe motor carriers can slide through loopholes, re-open under a new name
A report in Monday’s Baltimore Sun exposes how easy it is for some motor carriers with a long history of safety violations and crashes to reincarnate under a new name and business license after authorities shut them down. These are
Loopholes allow bad commercial drivers to stay behind the wheel
Considering all the efforts the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is giving to restricting hours-of-service rules and drivers with sleep apnea in the name of safety, the loopholes in federal laws that allow unsafe commercial drivers with a history of
Arkansas jury finds trucking company liable for man’s death, issues verdict for $7 million
A Kentucky trucking company must pay $7 million in damages for hiring an unqualified driver and pushing him to drive an excessively long route, which resulted in a crash that killed another commercial truck driver, a U.S. District Court jury
Hawaii helicopter crash kills pilot and four passengers
A Blue Hawaiian Helicopter carrying a honeymooning couple from Pennsylvania and two Canadian travelers on a scenic tour crashed into a ridge and exploded on the island of Molokai Thursday afternoon, killing all five people aboard, including the pilot.
