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SAWMILLS, NC – An alcohol-impaired minivan driver crashed head-on into a school bus with eight special needs children on board in Sawmills, NC on Friday, November 4, 2011.

Rescue workers pull the driver from a van that crashed head-on into a school bus in Sawmills, NC on November 4, 2011. Photo credit: Robert C. Reed / Hickory Daily Record

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CHARLOTTE, NC – A semi trailer flipped Thursday, February 10, after a truck accident on an interstate in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. The truck driver was seriously injured in the rollover crash which occurred on Interstate 85 in the Charlotte metro region. The truck accident area is in the far southwest part of the state near the border with South Carolina, about 76 miles northeast of Spartanburg, SC and about 137 miles southwest of Danville, Virginia.

On Thursday afternoon David Maudlin was driving a semi trailer truck through southwest North Carolina. At the time of the truck accident the semi driver was pulling an open trailer section, which was carrying a cargo of scrap metal.
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WAKE FOREST, NC – Seven school children were injured on Friday, December 10, when the bus they were riding was hit by a semi trailer truck in Franklin County, North Carolina. The driver of the bus was also hurt in the truck accident which occurred at the intersection of Stadium Drive and Capital Boulevard in the city of Wake Forest, NC. The accident area is just north of the state capital city of Raleigh in the north-central section of the state, about 208 miles north of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and about 148 miles south of Lynchburg, Virginia.

Late Friday morning a bus driver with the Franklin County School District was transporting thirty-five schoolchildren on a field trip. The students had attended a play at Wake Forest-Rolesville High School in Wake Forest and were headed back to Bunn Middle School, in Bunn, NC. At the same time an unidentified trucker was driving a semi tractor north on U.S. Highway 1, also known as Capital Blvd. It is not known what the semi driver was hauling or his destination at the time of the truck accident. ... Read Full Story

CHARLOTTE, NC – A trucking company’s semi trailers were involved in two separate accidents Friday, July 2, at the same spot in Charlotte, North Carolina. The trucks owned by Boyd Brothers in Alabama were involved in incidents early Friday morning and again later around noon at the area where southbound Interstate 85 merges onto southbound Interstate 77. The truck accident area is in the far southwest section of the state, about 92 miles north of Columbia, South Carolina and about 80 miles south of Winston-Salem, NC.

North Carolina Highway Patrol officials investigated both truck accidents and believe that speed was the likely factor in the rollovers.

The first truck accident occurred at around 5:00 a.m. Friday morning when the unidentified Boyd Brothers driver was traveling south on I-85. He was driving a flatbed trailer carrying a cargo of about 42,000 pounds of coiled steel, traveling from Maryland to Richburg, SC. As the truck driver attempted to exit onto southbound I-77 he lost control on the ramp and flipped the semi trailer truck over on its side. ... Read Full Story

CLEVELAND, NC – A freight train slammed into a semi trailer truck that had stalled on railroad tracks Monday morning, June 7, 2010, in Rowan County, North Carolina. The truck accident occurred as the 18 wheeler was leaving a local business in the town of Cleveland, NC. The area is in the west central section of the state between Charlotte and Winston-Salem, NC, about 83 miles south of Galax, Virginia and about 112 miles northeast of Spartanburg, South Carolina.

As the semi trailer truck was crossing railroad tracks at Statesville Boulevard it apparently stalled and got stuck on the tracks. At that moment a westbound freight train was headed down the tracks and unable to stop slamming into the tractor trailer truck.

At around 10:25 a.m. a truck driver left Shaver Wood Products located off U.S. 70 at the borderline between Rowan and Iredell counties. The truck was an American Carriers tractor trailer and was carrying an empty container box. ... Read Full Story

ASHEVILLE, NC – One person died and four others were seriously injured Friday, April 23, 2010, in an early morning truck accident in Buncombe County, North Carolina. The collision occurred near the city of Ashville on Interstate 240 when one trailer truck stalled on the roadway and was hit by another 18 wheeler. The accident area is in the far west section of the state, 130 miles west of Charlotte, NC and 70 miles northwest of Spartanburg, South Carolina.

The trailer and cab of the stalled semi were heavily damaged and had to be towed from the scene.

Shortly before 2:00 a.m. Friday morning a truck driver hauling a flatbed trailer loaded with scrap metal stalled in a westbound lane of Interstate 240 near exit 8 west of the Fairview Road Bridge. The unidentified truck driver tried to back up his disabled rig and move it to the right hand side of the road but the trailer truck stalled again. The semi truck stopped in a sideways position, blocking two westbound traffic lanes of the highway.

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KERNERSVILLE, NC – A truck driver and a female passenger were injured last Monday in a truck rollover accident in Forsyth County, North Carolina. The truck accident happened on Interstate 40 near NC State Route 66 in Kernersville, in the Winston-Salem metro region. The area is in the northwest section of the state, 88 miles northeast of Charlotte, NC and 280 miles east of Knoxville, Tennessee.

The trailer truck went off the left side of the interstate and crashed into the cable center dividing median. The semi truck then flipped over and finally crashed into the guardrail by the highway bridge, which crosses under Old Salem Road.

The truck accident happened a short time before 11:00 a.m. Monday morning as the truck driver was headed east on Interstate 40. The tractor trailer was hauling lumber and there was one passenger in the truck cab. ... Read Full Story

MATTHEWS, NC – WBTV news reports that a train heading to Charlotte NC from Atlanta, GA collided with a tractor trailer truck in Matthews, NC Tuesday at 6:30 a.m. Fortunately, no one was injured as a result of the accident.

Matthews, NC truck accident; train collides with tractor traier stuck on train tracks

The Matthews Police Department reports that the trailer got stuck on the tracks on Crestdale Road near East Charles Street. Because the truck driver was able to un-hitch the cab of the truck from the trailer, the train, which consisted of two locomotives and 19 cars, hit the trailer resulting in an accident.

Crestdale Rd. at E. Charles St. was closed, as well as Tank Town Rd. at the E. Charles St. rail crossing. Around 10:30 AM CSX was able to move the train and reopen access to Tank Town Rd. and the Rainbow Ridge community.

Repairs of the affected rail crossing at Crestdale Rd. and clean up of the scene lasted into the afternoon hours.

The driver of the truck was cited for careless and reckless driving; and obstructing a rail road crossing with a commercial motor vehicle, according to the Town of Matthews

State Highway Patrol Commercial Motor Vehicle Enforcement Troopers responded to assist with the investigation and charged the trucking company, Heartland Express, with failure to display triangles on a disabled vehicle and disobeying traffic signs for vehicle restrictions.

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FAYETTEVILLE, NC – A semi tractor-trailer caught on fire late Monday evening around 11:30 pm, Oct 19, 2009 near the 68 mile marker of Interstate 95 just north of Fayetteville. The semi truck accident seriously burned the driver, 54 year old Frankie Graves from Goldsboro, NC. The accident occurred in the northbound lanes of I-95 when Graves swerved to avoid 2 vehicles that were stopped on the highway.

Fayetteville, NC Tanker Crash

The tanker truck Graves was driving caught fire after he struck a guard rail and punctured his fuel tank. The truck accident was part of a chain-reaction crash.

In the accident Graves clothes caught on fire, then he jumped from the cab. A former soldier from Hope Mills, NC, went to his aid at the scene of the accident and rolled him in the median to extinguish the flames. Graves, who was badly burned over 40% of his body, remains in critical condition. He was airlifted to the N.C. Jaycee Burn Center in Chappel Hill for treatment.

Location of the truck accident near the 68 mile marker on I-95

Below is a Google Street View of Interstate 95 near the 68 mile marker where the truck accident occurred. Click your mouse button and drag it to pan around the scene of the accident and to get a feel for the lay of the land.

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LEXINGTON, NC – One person was killed this morning when a semi truck crashed into the rear of a car that was stopped on the southbound I-85 near the Highway 8 exit at mile marker 91 in Davidson County. The truck accident happened at about 11:20 am when the driver of the tractor-trailer struck the vehicle that had come to a stop in the right-hand lane of traffic.

The force of the collision pushed the car about 100 yards then the truck jack-knifed and slid off to the left side of the road. The car basically exploded into flames and came to rest on the right shoulder.

Police say that the the driver of the car was killed when the semi-truck crashed into the back of it after stopping on the Interstate. The reason the car was stopped on the highway is not clear to investigators at this time. Southbound lanes were closed for most of the afternoon while crews cleaned up. The Interstate was re-opened around 2 pm. Authorities have not revealed the identity or gender of the victim, but one eyewitness believes the driver was a female.

Police are not releasing any additional details at this time or whether or not the semi truck driver will face any charges for his part in the collision. The Lexington Police are investigating the fatal truck accident with assistance from Highway Patrol troopers.

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