Smith County – This Sunday night in Tyler the driver of a Chevy pickup truck was found dead at the scene of the accident. The man had driven his vehicle into the back of an 18-wheeler at the intersection of Highway 64 and Loop 323 in east Tyler. No other major injuries were reported.
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18-Wheeler Double Fatalities in Panhandle
This Friday in the Texas Panhandle saw two deaths and five additional injuries when a Chevy was driven across the road onto oncoming traffic and collided into an 18-wheeler. According to TxDOT, the driver of the passenger car may have been asleep. Two people from the tractor trailer were treated for injuries. The driver of…
Pedestrians and 18-Wheelers Do NOT Mix
This Thursday in North Texas saw two accidents involving pedestrians and 18-wheelers. A man walking on Hwy 114 in Denton County had to be medevac after being struck by an 18-wheeler. The other accident involved a fatality as a woman crossed IH 35 in Fort Worth. A passenger vehicle tried to stop and got run…
Like a Scene out of a Horror Movie
Have you ever been driving behind a semi-trailer hauling long objects like telephone poles, concrete beams, etc., and a scene comes to mind from a horror movie where something caused that long object to dislodge and then it came crashing down on the hapless vehicle behind it? Well this Wednesday saw such a scene enacted…
18-Wheeler Wreck Shut Down IH 45 North Houston
This Friday’s evening found the Hazmat crew hard at work cleaning up debris and spilt fuel on IH 45 just north of the Woodlands and south of TX 242. The scene was an incident of a collision between an 18-wheeler and the retaining wall on IH 45. The accident also involved two other passenger vehicles.…
Multiple Wreck Between Two 18-Wheelers and Four Cars near Bastrop
This Wednesday, traffic was backed up for miles on Hwy 21 between San Marcos and Bastrop due to a multiple-vehicle accident involving two 18-wheelers and four passenger cars. Sometimes close to the noon hour an 18-wheeler struck a pickup truck from behind as it was making a left turn. This chain of unfortunate events eventually…
Nacogdoches-Scene of Another Rolled Over 18 Wheeler
First Friday of the New Year saw another overturned tractor trailer. This time the scene of the 18-wheeler accident is IH 59 north of Nacogdoches. According to DPS, the commercial truck went up the on-ramp at an unsafe speed causing the 18-wheeler to roll over. Fortunately this time, no fatality has been reported. Ramp will be…
Tragic Fatal 18-Wheeler Crash on First Friday of New Year
Outside of Frankston, the first Friday of 2014 saw a fatal 18-wheeler collision between an SUV and a commercial semi. The female driver of the SUV was found dead at the scene of the accident just three miles west of Frankston in Anderson County. The commercial truck driver was medevac to Athens hospital. HW 175 has been…
TxDOT and DPS team up for a Safe Holiday
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has provided a grant to help fund extra DWI patrols by the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) over this winter holiday period. DPS troopers will be looking out for signs of impaired driving and focus its DWI patrols in high-risk locations especially at times when alcohol-related crashes are most frequent.…
Tragic Double 18-Wheeler Collision in East Texas
KETK reported that this Friday a fatal collision between two 18-wheelers in East Texas. The incident happened at the intersection of Red Bird Road and Jamestown Road just east of Tyler in Smith County. One of the commercial truck was hauling logs and the other a flatbed. According to DPS, the driver of the logging…