Kentucky Woman Awarded Over $800,000 in Tractor-Trailer Crash

A Kentucky woman was awarded more than $800,000 by a Vanderburgh Superior Court jury for injuries she suffered in a 2008 vehicle accident with a Fat Boys Trucking semi.  The tractor-trailer driver was cited for disregarding a traffic signal after he ran a red light at U.S. 41 and Indiana 57 in Evansville, KY and struck the woman’s van.

The woman has been unable to work since suffering knee and shoulder injuries and post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of the accident, according to her lawyer.  The lawsuit was filed seeking compensatory damages against the trucking company.

The woman was traveling westbound on Indiana 57 attempting to turn south onto U.S. 41. when her Dodge Caravan was struck by the semi as it came through the traffic light.  The woman’s van then went to the left, overturning on its side. The truck was hauling over 100 cattle from Kentucky to Kansas.  […]

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Pennsylvania Personal Injury Lawyers Back Ban on Cell Phone Use by Truckers

The Pennsylvania personal injury attorneys of Munley Law said today that they support a proposal by the National Transportation Safety Board to ban the use of all cell phones by truck drivers and other commercial motor vehicle (CMV) drivers.

“A prohibition on the use of cell phones and similar devices while operating tractor-trailers, buses or other commercial vehicles is simply the proper move for the safety of the public,” said J. Christopher Munley, a veteran Pennsylvania injury lawyer and managing partner of the Scranton-based law firm, which focuses on representing truck and car accident victims.

“The dangers of distracted driving, particularly the consequences of attention to the road being diverted by cell phones, has been made all too clear by recent fatalities,” said Daniel W. Munley, a partner in the law firm and chairman of the American Association of Justice’s Trucking Litigation Group.

“At Munley Law Personal Injury Attorneys, […]

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PATCO to Pay $10 Million in Crash Settlement

After only twenty minutes into a car accident trial last week, a recess was called and the two parties came to agreement on a $10 million settlement to be paid by the Port Authority Transit Corp. (PATCO).   The transit authority had admitted before trial that its truck driver was liable for the collision.

A 55-year-old Berlin, NJ man was driving to work in July 2007 when he was struck by a PATCO truck in Philadelphia, PA.  The man had just crossed a bridge into Philadelphia when the PATCO driver ran a red light and shoved the man’s vehicle into a median strip.  The accident resulted in shattered bones and a broken ankle to the driver.

The man has since undergone 12 surgeries and a painful debriding procedure to try to rid the leg of a serious infection which had begun to cause his flesh to rot.  […]

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Family Awarded $7 Million in Wrongful Death Claim

Man volunteered to drive church bus, gets hit and killed by tractor trailer

A widow and her two sons were awarded $6.7 million by a jury in Fresno County, California in the death of her husband who was struck by a tractor-trailer while filling the bus he had been driving with fuel.  The wrongful death award also included over $500,000 for a nephew who witnessed the accident and has suffered from depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.

The deceased had volunteered to drive the Sierra Pines Church of Oakhurst bus.  When he pulled over on the side of highway State Route 99 in Merced County to put fuel in the bus in April 2009, two approaching semis “became entangled as one attempted to pass the other.”  One of the trailers hit the man and the bus.

Lawyers presented testimony, which led to a verdict well beyond the $3 million offered as settlement, […]

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Boy Died in Tractor Trailer Crash as his Mother Fled Police

Woman flees from police and hits tractor trailer killing 8 year old son

Kansas City Boy Dies in Tractor Trailer Crash as His Mother Flees from Police

A Kansas City mother driving a Kia Optima, with her two children as passengers in the rear-seat, was fleeing from the police and slammed into the back of a tractor-trailer killing her 8-year-old son.  The police had tried to stop the mother only minutes earlier after she almost hit them while they were conducting a traffic stop. She initially stopped, and then as police approached her car, she sped away – the police abandoned the chase and were not pursuing her at the time of the wreck.  The mother is left with life-threatening injuries.  Her 11-year old daughter suffered minor injuries.

CHP Officer Dies in Car Accident

California Highway Patrol Officer Thomas Adams was killed Tuesday in an automobile accident on Highway 101 in California.  […]

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