Recent Posts in trucking tractor trailer accidents Category
Posted on Dec 27, 2011 By Jim Burns
A salesman was riding his motorcycle home from work on Golden State Boulevard south of Fresno when a Federal Express driver became impatient waiting for a train and made an illegal u-turn, striking ...
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Posted on Dec 15, 2011 By Jim Burns
Dunnion’s client was a 64-year old truck driver who had been on disability for several years. Even at his age, however, he had always hoped to be able to return to work. Just prior to this auto ...
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Posted on Nov 16, 2011 By Jim Burns
On December 23, 2009, a school administrator and his wife drove to Stockton, California to purchase a new cell phone. Due to the hustle and bustle of the Christmas holidays, they decided to leave ...
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Posted on Oct 31, 2011 By Jim Burns
A San Jose man was rear ended by a Federal Express delivery truck in June 2009. Although the driver admitted fault at the scene and the police wrote a favorable report, when the man was contacted by ...
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Posted on Jul 27, 2011 By Jim Burns
The clients, tow truck operators, were driving with fully loaded truck and trailer when they were broadsided by a Ford 350 which had failed to stop for a stop sign. Their tractor flipped over, ...
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Posted on Jul 5, 2011 By Jim Burns
This was a case in which our client, an adult student in the U.S. and a former international attorney, was parked by the beach sitting in his vehicle reading and having lunch in between classes. ...
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Posted on Jun 14, 2011 By Jim Burns
The client was waiting for her light to turn green when she saw a big rig bearing down on her, apparently unable to stop. She had a friend’s baby in a car seat in the back and frantically tried ...
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Posted on May 11, 2010 By Dunnion Law
Three young people were injured when their car was sideswiped by an 18-wheeler on highway 99 outside of Visalia. Although the police refused to call an ambulance and although the three were ...
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Posted on Jul 28, 2009 By Dunnion Law
July 25, 2009 According to reports a a semi truck accident closed both directions of the 57 Freeway in Fullerton, in which one person was fatally injured. According to the California Highway Patrol ...
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Posted on Jun 25, 2009 By Dunnion Law
JUNE 18, 2009 - A truck accident in Hollister, California caused by a driver making an illegal U-turn has killed one person, and left two people hospitalized with critical injuries. According to news ...
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Posted on Jun 25, 2009 By Dunnion Law
06/25/09 - Wrongful death and negligence alleged in deadly accident on Highway 101. Thirty-two French tourists and surviving family members of those killed in the horrific April crash of a tour bus on ...
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Posted on Jun 24, 2009 By Dunnion Law
The family of two honeymooners killed outside their stranded vehicle in Las Vegas has filed a lawsuit against two trucking companies and their drivers, the Las Vegas Sun reports. According to police, ...
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Posted on Jun 24, 2009 By Dunnion Law
A truck driver, his employer and an Illinois quarry were negligent in the death of a 13-year-old boy who was crushed by a dump truck loaded with gravel, a lawsuit filed Wednesday claims. Ryan ...
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