The Texas Department of Public Safety (TXDPS) is investigating a fatal semi truck crash that occurred in Hartley County on Thursday morning. The crash occurred around 6:40 a.m. on October 10 east of Dalhart, Texas. Officials say that Jose Santos-Borballa, 70, was operating a 2015 Volvo semi truck with a trailer as he exited a private drive and turned right to travel east on FM 281. “In the process of… the turn, the semi-trailer detached from the truck tractor and came to...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — A semi-trucker driver has been sentenced to more than 22 years behind bars for a crash that killed five people on the I-10 near Chandler early last year. The collision happened around 6:15 a.m. on Jan. 12, 2023 on I-10 near Chandler Boulevard.   GPS data showed the driver of a semi-truck, 38-year-old Danny Glen Tiner, was driving 68 mph in a 55-mph construction zone. He was also reportedly using TikTok on his cellphone when he plowed into two cars,...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A crash involving a semi-truck closed a 16-mile stretch of westbound Interstate 84 through the Columbia River Gorge late Friday morning, west of Cascade Locks. All westbound traffic was detoured across the Bridge of the Gods and onto State Route 14. The crashed involved a semi-truck carrying a load of corn that partially spilled onto the freeway, according to photos posted by the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office. According to the Oregon Department of...

TOWN OF SHERMAN, Wis. — A 66-year-old Kewaskum driver of a semi-truck died in a crash involving a Wisconsin Southern train Wednesday afternoon. The crash happened just after 2:00 PM. According to the Sheboygan County Sheriff's Office, six train cars and the engine derailed. One of those cars lost a portion of the plastic pellet load it was carrying.There were 22 cars, total, in the train. Investigators said the semi crossed the Wisconsin Southern Railway crossing and was struck by the...

Hays Consolidated Independent School District released the video of the crash between a concrete truck and a school bus that left two dead and several injured on Friday, March 22. This dash camera video shows the collision from the bus driver’s viewpoint. The crash occurred between a Hays CISD bus and a concrete truck. It resulted in two deaths — five-year-old Ulises Rodriguez Montoya, who was on the bus, and 33-year-old Ryan Wallace, a doctoral candidate at the...

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Video the 8 News Now Investigators obtained shows a truck driver on the wrong side of the road for nearly half a minute before colliding with a group of motorcyclists, killing three – in a crash state police once believed involved impairment but appears not to at all. Claude Rafiki, 29, had a valid commercial driver’s license out of Michigan at the time of the March 23 crash, but his two-year medical certification was due to expire March 24 — the...

A trucker’s dash cam captured a dangerous act of road rage in Dallas, Texas.   The dash cam video was shared by YouTube user The Traveling Life of Brian on April 18, 2024. In the clip, you can see the driver of a red car come to a complete stop right in front of the dash cammer. The motorist then gets out of the car to give the dash cammer a piece of his mind as traffic zooms by a full speed in the other lanes. “Before people start speculating, here is what...

This week, a higher speed limit went into effect on a portion of the H.E. Bailey Turnpike in Oklahoma.   According to the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority (OTA), new speed limit signage was installed on Thursday, April 18, along the I-44/H.E. Bailey Turnpike between Chickasha and Lawton in Comanche, Caddo and Grady counties. The new signage increases the speed limit to 80 m.p.h. for a 59 mile stretch along the urnpike.   The section of the I-44/H.E. Bailey...

Trucking company XPO recently recognized a truck driver for achieving a remarkable safety milestone.   Last week XPO recognized truck driver Dale Williams for achieving four million accident-free miles. Williams has driven for XPO since 1987 and is the second-ever XPO driver to achieve four million safe miles.   Williams was recognized with a ceremony at the company’s facility in Knoxville, Tennessee attended by family and co-workers. As part of the ceremony,...

The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) closed a major bridge until further notice due to safety concerns.   The Blue Mesa Bridge that carries US Highway 50 west of Gunnison has been closed due to safety concerns as of the afternoon of April 18, officials say. The closure is between US 50 mile marker 131 (intersection with Colorado Highway 92) and mile marker 138, between Gunnison and Montrose. CDOT says that it was encouraged by the Federal Highway Administration to...

Teenagers learn that they really had “no idea” how serious truck blind spots are before getting behind the wheel as part of a special semi truck education program.    Around 150 students from McDowell High School in Erie, Pennsylvania were able to learn about trucking and truck driving safety when Penn State Behrend brought one of their tractor trailers to the high school to give the students a hands-on experience.  Not only did the experience help...

Hotdogs scattered across a Kentucky interstate after a semi truck detached from its trailer early on Friday morning.    The accident happened on Friday, April 19th at about 1 a.m. on Interstate 65 near the Interstate 64 and Interstate 71 interchanges in downtown Louisville, Kentucky.  According to WDRB, the semi truck struck the barrier wall on I-65, which caused the trailer to rip apart. A large portion of the trailer then tumbled off of the ramp and flipped onto...