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School Children Injured in Tractor Trailer Accident Near Raleigh NC

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

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Train Slams into Stalled Trailer Truck in North Carolina

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

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Truck Driver and Passenger Injured in NC Truck Accident Rollover

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

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