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Children Can Sustain Serious Brain Injuries From Trucking Accidents

Children involved in large truck accidents often sustain serious brain injuries. If your child has sustained a traumatic brain injury from a Kentucky truck accident, contact an experienced Louisville truck accident attorney at (502) 637-6000 or (800) 637-6033 to learn about your legal options.

Truck Wrecks Plague Stretch of Northern Kentucky Highway

Long backups and frequent accidents plague a stretch of interstate in Northern Kentucky traversed by thousands of trucks daily.

Tiger Woods To Be Charged With Careless Driving

Tiger Woods cited for careless driving in his well-publicized one car Thanksgiving holiday accident.

Lawyers Group Release Info Regarding Trucking Safety in Kentucky; Kentucky 11th Worst, Indiana 15th

From the American Association for Justice:

"As nearly 30 million Americans travel U.S. roads during the Labor Day holiday, a new analysis of government data reveals that more than 28,000 motor carrier companies, representing more than 200,000 trucks, are currently operating in violation of federal safety laws. 

In an original analysis of data not previously available to the public, AAJ found commuters are sharing roads with trucks that have incurred thousands of safety violations – such as defective brakes, bad tires, loads that dangerously exceeded weight limits and drivers with little or no training or drug and alcohol dependencies.

AAJ obtained data on the safety performance of U.S. trucking companies through the Motor Carrier Management Information System (MCMIS), which is maintained by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA).  Over a million lines of data were analyzed in an effort to pinpoint just how many unsafe trucks might be on the road."

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The law firm of Franklin Gray & White represents the victims of truck and auto accidents.  If you or a loved one were injured in an accident involving a truck, semi, and/or commercial vehicle, protect your rights.  Contact the experienced legal team at Franklin Gray & White for your free consultation.

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Truck Wreck In Bullitt County Injures Three

From The Louisville Courier-Journal:

"A multi-car wreck involving a log truck on Highway 44 in Bullitt County on Monday, June 15, left at least three people injured and halted traffic on the road between Shepherdsville and Mt. Washington.

Three people were seriously injured in the crash, which involved a log truck and four other vehicles, said Bullitt County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Danny Thompson.  He said the injuries included broken bones, but he did not know whether they were life-threatening.

An emergency dispatcher in Bullitt County said calls about the wreck in the 3200 block of Highway 44 began coming in at 5:50 p.m.

The driver of a Dodge Durango was attempting to make a turn at the intersection of Watergate Drive and 44 when it was struck from behind by the log truck, Thompson said. The Durango then hit the car in front of it and the log truck struck two vehicles traveling in the eastbound lanes.

The injured were taken via helicopter and ambulance to University Hospital, the dispatcher said. She did not know how many people were transported in total.

Investigators were being called to the scene to determine what caused the accident."

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The law firm of Franklin Gray & White represents the victims of truck and auto accidents.  If you or a loved one were injured in an accident involving a truck, semi, and/or commercial vehicle, protect your rights.  Contact the experienced legal team at Franklin Gray & White for your free consultation.

For further information on truck and auto accidents please see here, or see our online library.

 

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Louisville, Kentucky 40203

Tel: (502) 637-6000

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Truck Accident On I-65: Semi Collides With Tour Bus, Sends 9 To Hospital

From the Courier-Journal.com:

"A tractor-trailer that struck a broken-down tour bus carrying a Christian gospel group on I-65 northbound just north of Elizabethtown this morning sent nine people to the hospital, including three children, officials said.

None suffered life-threatening injuries, but one may have been in serious condition after the 4:15 a.m. accident involving five vehicles, said Hardin County Sheriff’s Office executive officer Greg Lowe.I-65 was closed for about an hour, but authorities have since reopened one lane to traffic, he said. Traffic is currently backed up for almost two miles.

Lowe said the semi struck one of two tour buses owned by the Morgan family, a Christian musical group. The bus was on the side of the road after it broke down. After the accident, the cab of the trailer caught fire."

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The law firm of Franklin Gray & White represents the victims of truck and auto accidents.  If you or a loved one were injured in an accident involving a truck, semi, and/or commercial vehicle, protect your rights.  Contact the experienced legal team at Franklin Gray & White for your free consultation.

For further information on truck and auto accidents please see here, or see our online library.

 

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505 West Ormsby Avenue

Louisville, Kentucky 40203

Tel: (502) 637-6000

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Illinois Jury Awards $24 Million In Fatal Truck Crash Trial

From the Chicago Tribune:

"A Will County jury has awarded nearly $24 million to families of two people killed and another seriously injured when a truck crashed into a line of cars on Interstate Highway 55 near Plainfield in April 2004.

Jurors on Friday issued the judgment—the highest verdict amount in a civil case in Will County in at least 50 years—against C.H. Robinson Worldwide, a Minnesota freight broker that had contracted with the truck driver, De An Henry of Utah."

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The law firm of Franklin Gray & White represents the victims of truck and auto accidents.  If you or a loved one were injured in an accident involving a truck, semi, and/or commercial vehicle, protect your rights.  Contact the experienced legal team at Franklin Gray & White for your free consultation.

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Louisville, Kentucky 40203

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Jury Awards Woman $65 Million In Tractor-Trailer Accident

From The Ledger.com

"A jury awarded a 21-year-old Wauchula woman $65 million Wednesday for her injuries in a 2007 crash.

 The verdict is considered to be one of the largest by a Polk County jury.

Wednesday's verdict stemmed from a traffic crash in Zolfo Springs that left Kendra Lymon in a coma and hospitalized for months.

Lymon had been driving her Dodge Neon on Aug. 21, 2007, when a tractor-trailer owned by an Auburndale-based company, Bynum Transport, struck her car at State Road 35 and State Road 64, according to the lawsuit naming Bynum and the driver.

A telephone call Wednesday evening to Bynum Transport was not returned.

The truck's driver, Robert Bohn, a battalion chief for Polk County Fire Services, was working part-time for the trucking company.

Bohn said in a deposition that he went into the intersection because he had the green light.

But at trial, Lymon's lawyers argued their client had the green light and produced an eyewitness to testify as such.

Despite regaining consciousness and undergoing therapy, Lymon continues to require 24-hour care and supervision, according to her lawyers from Wilkes & McHugh.

"She has suffered these terrible injuries needlessly," said Tampa lawyer Jim Freeman, according to a news release from the law firm. "Kendra Lymon is one of the most deserving clients I've had in 30 years of practice.""

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The law firm of Franklin Gray & White represents the victims of truck and auto accidents.  If you or a loved one were injured in an accident involving a truck, semi, and/or commercial vehicle, protect your rights.  Contact the experienced legal team at Franklin Gray & White for your free consultation.

For further information on truck and auto accidents please see here, or see our online library.

 

Franklin Gray & White

The Speed Mansion

505 West Ormsby Avenue

Louisville, Kentucky 40203

Tel: (502) 637-6000

Toll-Free: (800) 637-6033

Fax: (502) 637-1413

email: mwhite@franklingrayandwhite.com

Truck Accident: Truck Overturns On 1-71 In Oldham County, Kentucky

From the Louisville Courier-Journal:

Another trucking accident on the expressways in the greater Louisville, Kentucky region.  A tractor-trailer overturns on I-71 in Oldham County near the LaGrange exit causing significant traffic problems.  Luckily this time there does not appear to be any injuries from the semi accident.  However, accidents involving tractor-trailers often result in catastrophic injuries. 

The law firm of Franklin Gray & White represents the victims of truck and auto accidents.  If you or a loved one were injured in an accident involving a truck, semi, and/or commercial vehicle, protect your rights.  Contact the experienced legal team at Franklin Gray & White for your free consultation.

For further information on truck and auto accidents please see here, or see our online library.

 

Franklin Gray & White

The Speed Mansion

505 West Ormsby Avenue

Louisville, Kentucky 40203

Tel: (502) 637-6000

Toll-Free: (800) 637-6033

Fax: (502) 637-1413

email: mwhite@franklingrayandwhite.com

Fatal Truck Accident On Northern Kentucky Highway

From the Kentucky Post:

"Three were pronounced dead after a pick-up truck and a Fed-Ex truck collided just before 4 p.m. Tuesday afternoon.

The crash occurred on U.S. 42 at Miller Owens Road in Verona, Ky., claiming the lives of the three occupants in one of the vehicles and sent the other driver to the hospital with minor injuries.

Tamara Roberts, 45, of Warsaw, was driving a 2002 Ford F-150 pick-up truck south on U.S. 42 when the Boone County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Tom Scheben said, she lost control of the vehicle and began to slide sideways into the path of an oncoming 2007 Workhorse Fed-Ex delivery van driven by Gary Hutchinson, 55, of Dry Ridge, who was heading northbound.

Scheben said that the Fed-Ex truck T-boned the pick-up truck killing the two passengers in the pick-up truck, who were both seated on the passenger side. Tamara's son Dillon Roberts, 11, who was in the front seat, and her father Dallas Wallace, 70, was sitting in the rear seat, were pronounced dead at the scene.

Tamara died en route to the hospital. None of the victims were wearing seat belts."

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The law firm of Franklin Gray & White represents the victim of truck and auto accidents.  If you or a loved one were injured in an accident involving a truck, semi, and/or commercial vehicle, protect your rights.  Contact the experienced legal team at Franklin Gray & White for your free consultation.

For further information on truck and auto accidents please see here, or see our online library.

 

Franklin Gray & White

The Speed Mansion

505 West Ormsby Avenue

Louisville, Kentucky 40203

Tel: (502) 637-6000

Toll-Free: (800) 637-6033

Fax: (502) 637-1413

email: mwhite@franklingrayandwhite.com