PACOIMA, CALIFORNIA — A crash involving two FedEx big rigs scattered packages and shut down all lanes of northbound Interstate 5 in the San Fernando Valley early Wednesday, causing major delays across multiple freeways as crews worked to clear the damaged trucks. Photo credit: KTLA The collision was reported around 3:45 a.m. on the northbound 5 Freeway just south of the 118 Freeway in Pacoima. The crash left one trailer split open and a cab blocking the middle lanes, with...

COLLETON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA — A man was severely injured last week after the semi-truck he was driving experienced a suspected mechanical failure, causing the truck to flip and roll onto its roof on a Colleton County road, according to Colleton County Fire-Rescue. Photo credit: Colleton County Fire-Rescue Colleton County Fire-Rescue said the driver was traveling on Sunrise Road when the suspected mechanical failure caused him to lose control near Yamacraw Drive at around...

FREEBORN COUNTY, MINNESOTA — Two semi-truck drivers were killed in separate crashes early Monday on icy Minnesota highways, including a northbound Interstate 35 collision near Albert Lea that involved a Target truck and a second crash on Highway 59 in southwest Minnesota that left another driver dead and a second driver critically injured, authorities said. The Minnesota State Patrol said the first crash happened at about 2:00 a.m. Monday on northbound I-35 in Bath Township in...

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — ICE Homeland Security Investigations San Francisco and HSI Los Angeles, along with federal partners, announced on Dec. 23 the conclusion of Operation Highway Sentinel, which officials said resulted in the arrests of 101 unauthorized commercial truck drivers on highways across California and included additional cargo-port inspections that led to two more arrests. Federal officials said the operation took place throughout California and was launched in...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said his department is targeting what he described as widespread fraud in commercial driver’s license training and issuance, warning that unqualified drivers could be getting CDLs and posing risks as millions of Americans travel for the year-end holiday period. Speaking Tuesday on “Fox & Friends,” Duffy said his department has been working to improve highway safety ahead of the holiday travel surge. He alleged...

OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA — Oklahoma Highway Patrol officials said troopers shot chickens that got loose after a crash involving a semi-trailer transporting chickens on a westbound Interstate 240 ramp to southbound Interstate 44 Tuesday morning, after authorities said the loose animals became a danger to motorists. Photo credit: KOCO 5 Authorities said a semi-trailer containing chickens crashed along the westbound I-240 ramp to southbound I-44, briefly shutting down the ramp....

LIBERAL, KANSAS — Kansas Highway Patrol troopers are asking for the public’s help to identify a commercial motor vehicle and its driver after investigators say a motorist died when his pickup struck a parked truck hauling an oversized load on U.S. Highway 54 in Seward County, and the truck left the scene. The Kansas Highway Patrol said the fatal crash occurred between midnight and 7:00 a.m. on December 22, 2025, on U.S. Highway 54 near Liberal in Seward County. Photo credit:...

CORTLANDVILLE, NEW YORK — Two tractor-trailers jackknifed on Interstate 81 south Tuesday morning in snowy conditions near mile marker 42.6, leading to a diesel spill response and a multi-hour closure between McGraw and Marathon before the roadway reopened early Tuesday afternoon. New York State Police at Homer said troopers responded on December 23, 2025, at approximately 6:48 a.m., to I-81 south near mile marker 42.6 in the town of Virgil for a crash involving two tractor-trailers...

WOODSTOCK, ONTARIO — Police have charged a truck driver from the Hamilton area in a hit-and-run crash that killed a tow truck operator who was stopped while helping a driver on the side of Highway 401 outside Woodstock, following a nearly three-week search in which investigators asked the public for help identifying the suspect vehicle. Ontario Provincial Police said 32-year-old Sandeep Singh of Mount Hope, Ontario, has been charged with dangerous operation causing death and failure to...

MIMS, FLORIDA — A traffic incident responder working to clear a vehicle fire on Interstate 95 Monday morning was killed after being struck by a semi-truck in the northbound lanes near mile marker 228 in Mims, Brevard County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Troopers said the crash happened just after 9:00 a.m. in the northbound lanes of I-95 near mile marker 228. Investigators said the incident involved a semi-truck with a trailer and a CMTI traffic incident response truck that...

HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT — An overturned tractor-trailer crash on Interstate 84 East in Hartford shut down multiple lanes Monday morning and prompted an environmental response for a fuel leak, while a separate crash on Interstate 84 West later caused additional lane closures, officials said. The tractor-trailer overturned on I-84 East between Exits 50 and 51 shortly after 5:00 a.m., according to the Connecticut Department of Transportation. Connecticut State Police said no injuries were...

MARICOPA, ARIZONA — A semi-truck driver was cited after crossing the median and crashing on Interstate 8 Wednesday evening when troopers said the driver was blinded by the sun and reached for his visor, causing the truck to veer into the median and jackknife across the eastbound lanes. First responders responded to the crash on Interstate 8 south of Maricopa just after 5:00 p.m., according to the Arizona Department of Public Safety. Troopers said the driver was blinded by the sun and...