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2026-01-24 16:11:40 -

Family of Lakewood Truck Driver Killed in 2023 Police Chase Files $26 Million Wrongful Death Lawsuit
LAKEWOOD, WASHINGTON — The family of a Lakewood-based commercial truck driver who was killed in a 2023 crash has filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit, alleging that an illegal and improperly conducted police pursuit directly led to the fatal collision involving his semi-truck. According to court records, attorneys for the family of Bohdan Vetrov, 57, announced Tuesday that they filed...

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2026-01-22 23:08:33 -

Sand Dump Truck Hits Hemp Loaded Semi Head-On; Sheriff Kicks In Window to Help Rescue Dump Truck Driver
DOTHAN AREA, ALABAMA — Two people were seriously injured after a dump truck crashed head-on into a semi-truck early Thursday morning at an intersection just north of Enterprise, and the local sheriff who arrived moments after the wreck helped rescue one of the drivers, officials said. Photo credit: Sheriff Scott Byrd The crash happened around 6:40 a.m. at the intersection of...

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2026-06-26 19:48:46 -

$1.3 Million in Stolen Copper Wire From Alabama and Data Center Equipment From Florida Recovered From Two Stolen Trailers at Illinois Truck Yard — Stolen Plates Also Found
ELK GROVE TOWNSHIP, ILLINOIS — Cook County Sheriff's Office investigators recovered more than $1.3 million in stolen goods from two stolen semi-trailers found at a truck yard in unincorporated Elk Grove Township, including $300,000 in copper wire and $1 million worth of data center infrastructure equipment — with stolen license plates on one trailer and a trail leading back to...

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2024-04-20 09:30:38 -

$1.7 million awarded to man who says truck driver’s train horn caused hearing loss
A Mississippi jury sided with a man who said that a truck driver’s train horn blast caused him permanent hearing loss. Mississippi resident Jerry Kelly was awarded $1,787,597 by a jury following a lawsuit brought against Jerry Garland. On May 4, 2020, both Kelly and Garland were on a job site in Florence, Mississippi, working for commercial asphalt company Adcamp....

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2024-04-18 09:42:55 -

$19K fine issued for overweight violation, truck driver arrested hours later for defying out-of-service order
Police in Oregon issued a large fine for an overweight violation and then arrested a truck driver two hours later for operating while out-of-service, according to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office (WCSO). The incident began shortly before 7 a.m. on April 10 when WCSO deputies pulled over a tractor trailer on NW Jackson School Road in Washington County, Oregon....

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2022-04-25 14:50:18 -

$35 million worth of meth seized from truck hauling strawberry purée
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recently seized a “mammoth” amount of illegal drugs at a Texas border crossing. The drug seizure occurred on April 12 at the World Trade Bridge in Laredo, Texas. A CBP referred a tractor trailer arriving from Mexico hauling a shipment of strawberry purée for a secondary inspection. With the help of...

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2025-04-24 13:51:18 -

$500K Bond Set for Truck Driver Accused of Texting During Fatal Crash in San Benito
SAN BENITO, Texas — Bond has been set at $500,000 for a tractor-trailer driver accused of texting while driving during a fatal crash in San Benito, according to Cameron County jail records. Fernando Gonzalez Altamirano, 39, a Mexican national, was arraigned on a charge of criminally negligent homicide following the Saturday crash that claimed the life of 70-year-old Lorenzo Guajardo, of...

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2026-06-26 19:44:02 -

'I Have Not Forgiven You': Families Confront Fatigued Truck Driver in Court as He's Sentenced to 20 Years for I-20 Crash That Killed Five — Three Generations of One Family Gone; Some Forgave Him, Some Did Not
KAUFMAN, TEXAS — More than a year after a fatigued truck driver fell asleep at the wheel and triggered a chain-reaction crash on Interstate 20 that killed five people — including three generations of a Fort Worth family — the survivors and loved ones of the victims came face to face with him in a Kaufman County courtroom Thursday and delivered words of grief, anger, and in...

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2022-07-27 00:20:58 -

“Out of practice” truck driver found guilty of smuggling 110 migrants
A Mexican truck driver has admitted to transporting more than 100 undocumented migrants inside of his trailer back in May. 36-year-old Marthin Rueda Alcorta guilty plea was announced on July 25th. The US Department of Justice reports that Alcorta drove erratically through an inspection lane at a Border Patrol checkpoint north of Laredo, Texas and nearly struck a...

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2022-02-08 16:09:53 -

“Truck drivers are uniting worldwide,” founders say ahead of US demonstration
Truck driver protests are spreading across the globe as the movement against mandated COVID-19 vaccines continues, and a co-founder of the upcoming ‘Convoy to D.C.’ demonstration says that US drivers will soon join the protests in numbers that might surprise the public. Since the ‘Freedom Convoy’ first rolled out in Canada with a culmination in Ottawa, truckers in...

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2025-10-17 15:53:12 -

80-year-old woman seriously injured after semi driver’s mistake causes three-vehicle crash on I-70 in Kansas City
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — An 80-year-old woman was seriously injured Thursday afternoon after a semi-truck driver’s improper lane change caused a three-vehicle crash on Interstate 70, according to the Kansas Highway Patrol (KHP). The crash occurred around 3:35 p.m. in the westbound lanes of I-70 near 18th Street, KHP said. Investigators determined that Moti Korde, 43, of Kansas City,...

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2025-11-24 15:22:53 -

Masked crew steals beef from tractor-trailer in Philadelphia; driver fights back with baseball bat
PHILADELPHIA — Police are searching for a group of 10 to 12 masked men who stole multiple pallets of frozen beef from a parked tractor-trailer early Monday morning in Northeast Philadelphia, according to investigators. The cargo theft happened around 2 a.m. near Norcom Road and Red Lion Road by the Northeast Philadelphia Airport, according to WPVI. The truck’s driver, Kurt Landry,...

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2026-01-21 23:35:18 -

$1000 Reward Offered as Yuma Police Try to Identify Semi That Hit Fire Hydrant and Took Off
YUMA, ARIZONA — Police are asking the public for help identifying a semi-truck and driver involved in a hit-and-run after the truck reportedly struck a fire hydrant and fled the scene earlier this month. The Yuma Police Department said the incident occurred on Jan. 15, 2026, when the semi-truck pictured in a police alert collided with a fire hydrant in a dirt lot across from the Chevron...

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2024-04-15 16:23:30 -

$12k in stolen pork marks 37th Philly cargo theft this year
Twelve thousand dollars worth of pork was stolen from the back of a semi truck on Wednesday in the 37th Philly cargo theft in 2024. The theft occurred on Wednesday, April 10th along Charter Road in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. According to 6 ABC, the truck driver was asleep in his cab when he felt the trailer shaking as the thieves stole his cargo of pork. The...

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2025-03-22 01:42:45 -

$150 Million in Lawsuits Filed Over Fatal I-35 Crash in Austin That Killed 5 and Injured Dozens
Two major lawsuits, including one seeking over $100 million in damages, have been filed in connection to a deadly 18-vehicle crash on Interstate 35 in North Austin that killed five people and left at least a dozen others injured. One of the lawsuits was filed by Nathan Jonard, a survivor of the March 13 crash, who alleges that driver negligence and corporate irresponsibility led to the massive...

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2024-04-15 10:38:09 -

$1M in stolen semi trucks still missing one month later
Over $1 million worth of stolen semi trucks are still missing from a trucking company nearly a month after the crime occurred. The theft happened on March 14th at around 9 p.m. in Puslinch, Ontario, Canada. According to Guelph Today, five white Volvo tractor trailers ranging from 2019 to 2022 were stolen from a trucking yard near Highway 401. ...

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