Indianapolis Personal Injury Blog

The Most Dangerous Truck Routes in Lake County & Porter County

Indianapolis personal injury attorneys take a closer look at truck accidents and fatal truck crashes in Lake County and Porter County.

New warning for semi-truck and bus drivers: Texting is now illegal!

Semi truck drivers are getting hit with fines for texting, and so should everyone else that operates a motor vehicle.

Trucker Dies In Freak Toll Booth Accident On Indiana Toll Road

A truck driver on the Indiana Toll Road lost his life on Thursday, Jan 7, when he became pinned between his big rig's driver side door and a toll plaza concrete poll. The freak truck accident is being investigated by the Indiana State Police.

Your Indianapolis semi-truck accident lawyer should know about the "comic book"

Semi-truck drivers are required by law to record the hours they drive, but the "log book" they use is so easily altered, it's referred to as the "comic book."

Bloomfield, IN, Man Killed When Fed Ex Truck Strikes Fallen Tree

In Clay County, Indiana, a Fed Ex truck driver was killed on Saturday morning when his vehicle struck a fallen tree in the road. The Clay County Sheriff's Department said that 55-year-old Raymond Wesley Corey of Bloomfield, Indiana, was driving on State Route 157 just after seven in the morning this weekend when his truck collided with a tree lying across both lanes of the highway.

Clay County Coroner Joel Reinoehl pronounced the Fed Ex worker dead at the scene of the truck accident. Indiana SR 157 south of County Road 800 South remained closed as emergency workers cleared the scene of the fatal Indiana truck accident and while the Indiana State Highway Department removed the fallen tree. Corey was originally from Terre Haute, Indiana.

Investigators are unsure of what caused the tree to fall or why Corey did not see the obstacle.

Indiana Woman Killed In Michigan Semi Truck Crash

Michigan State Police reported that a Fort Wayne, Indiana woman was killed in a truck accident in Southwest Michigan on Friday evening when the woman's car crossed the centerline into oncoming traffic. Investigators said that 74-year-old Sara Jo Bolte was driving on Michigan 89 outside of Otsego when for unknown reasons so swerved into oncoming traffic and was hit head-on by a truck carrying a load of bricks.

She was rushed to a hospital in Plainwell, Michigan, where she died of her car accident injuries. The driver of the truck was not injured in the truck accident. The dog traveling with her in the car was uninjured but examined by a veterinarian in Kalamazoo.

The investigation will continue as to why the woman did not stay in her lane. Alcohol and speed were not factors in the Allegan County truck accident.

Semi Truck Carrying Dangerous Chemical Load Overturns On I-65 in Boone County

MSNBC reports that a tanker truck accident on the ramp between I-65 South and I-865 East was shut down on Friday due to the potential for a hazardous chemical spill.

At the time of the accident, the tanker was carrying a 48,000-pound load of liquid aluminum, which had to be carefully moved to another truck during the cleanup. The potential danger of the substance caused substantial backups on the roads as the left lanes of I-865 were blocked while emergency workers brought in special equipment to clear the wreck.

The driver of the truck said the accident was caused by slick ice on the ramp, which caused his big rig to slide off the road and roll down the embankment. He was taken to the hospital with minor injuries.

"Once the truck caught on the ice and slush, it kinda grabbed it and pulled it off the roadway basically down the embankment and as you can see the truck is lying on its side about a hundred feet down the embankment itself," said Robert Hawkins, Indiana State Police.

Spencer County Indiana Man Killed In Head On Collision With Semi-Truck

ABC News 25 reports that 38-year-old Timonthy J. Oeding, of Wheatland, Indiana, was killed in a head-on wreck with a big rig truck on Monday, November 17, 2008. The accident took place on US 231 near Dale, Indiana in the afternoon hours.

The Indiana State Police told reporters that the driver of the car, Oeding, veered into across the double yellow centerline and into the truck's oncoming lane. The two vehicles collided head on. While Oeding died instantly according to state troopers, the truck driver suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries - among them a broken leg. The semi drive was taken to Jasper Memorial Hospital and then transferred to Louisville for surgery.

Although the truck accident is still under investigation, police do not believe that the driver was impaired or that drugs and alcohol were a factor in the fatal crash.