The logging industry plays an important role in North Carolina. The state has more than 18 million acres of timberland. Logging provides thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions of revenue. Too many trucks on the road Many of the jobs in the state logging industry...
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Truck Accidents
Who is responsible when logging trucks cause accidents?
Last month’s death of a van driver in Craven County highlights the dangerous and often fatal aftermath of a motor vehicle accident involving a logging truck. The head-on collision during the late morning of Jan. 13 south of Vanceboro scattered debris along the yard of...
Study: safety systems could prevent 40 percent of rear-end 18-wheeler crashes
When a tractor-trailer slams into the back of a passenger car, the results can be horrific for occupants of the smaller vehicle. After all, in North Carolina 18-wheelers are allowed to weigh up to 80,000 pounds. Serious injuries and fatalities are all too common in...
Were you a victim of a logging truck accident?
The logging industry provides a valuable service in North Carolina. However, when they are involved in or cause motor vehicle accidents, the results can be deadly. The people who work with and drive logging trucks must pay special attention to strict safety measures....
A series of crashes and tragedies on a North Carolina interstate
A series of crashes on a North Carolina interstate highway has resulted in a tragic loss of life. Five people were killed - including two preteen girls and their mother and father - in the chain-reaction crashes on Interstate 485 in Charlotte. There were three motor...
Report: Large truck crash fatalities rose last year
Regular readers of our Raleigh personal injury law blog will recall that we recently wrote a post about an unusual trend: though traffic during the pandemic is down in North Carolina, fatal crashes have remained steady. That phenomenon can be found in other places...
Trucker cited in North Carolina interstate crash
The 94-mile drive from Raleigh to Archdale takes about an hour and a half. Interstate 85 essentially divides the town of about 11,000 residents in half. The busy highway was recently the site of a tractor-trailer crash that injured one of the town’s police...
Does high caffeine intake indicate higher risk of truck crashes?
Back in March, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration issued a national declaration that temporarily suspended hours-of-service regulations for truck drivers transporting emergency relief products and certain critical materials needed to respond to the...
Research: Distracted driving more dangerous than drunk driving
As we all know, drunk drivers have long been considered the most dangerous drivers on the streets of Raleigh and across the nation. New research makes it clear that it is time to reconsider those old ideas. While drivers impaired by alcohol are still as dangerous as...
Part II: Raleigh’s most dangerous intersections
Regular readers of our Raleigh personal injury blog will undoubtedly recall that we recently wrote about our city’s most dangerous intersections. According to WRAL, motor vehicle crashes have increased by a jaw-dropping 45 percent over the past decade,...
