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Impaired Minivan Driver Collides With School Bus in Sawmills, NC
November 11th, 2011 | 
Author: 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
One Dead, Four Injured in North Carolina Truck Accident
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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Fayetteville NC Semi Truck Accident on I-95 Driver Burned
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.
Contact a Fayetteville truck accident attorney if you’ve been injured in a truck accident in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Find a North Carolina truck accident lawyer at TruckAccidents360.com today who specializes in representing victims involved in truck injury accidents.
Lexington NC Semi Truck Accident on I-85 – Video
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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