Posted in Car Accidents, Truck Accidents on Jul 30th, 2010
An Escondido truck accident trapped and killed an 18-year-old in her car on Friday evening, when she and a pickup truck crashed into one another at a downtown intersection. The teenager was making a left turn into traffic when she was hit by the pickup truck. The truck accident took place at one of Escondido’s [...]
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Posted in Truck Accidents on Jul 6th, 2010
A San Diego truck accident transpired disastrously Thursday when one man became stuck in a burning semi trailer. The man could not be reached and burned in the truck after it exploded. On Thursday afternoon, the man’s truck and another truck were driving on Airway Road when they crashed into each another. One of the [...]
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Posted in Property Damage, Truck Accidents on Jun 18th, 2010
A tanker truck overturned and exploded in a region of San Diego known as Otay Mesa last night. According to reports, smoke rose from the tanker for hours following the explosion. The tanker truck, operated by ARCO gasoline, was holding two tanks as it progressed down the road just before 5:45 pm. While trying to [...]
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An Huntington Beach resident sustained serious injury Wednesday afternoon after a head on collision in Fountain Valley. Authorities speculate that the 62-year-old man was speeding prior to veering into opposing traffic and slamming into a pick-up truck. Prior to the accident, Baron L. Mahrling was driving eastbound in his gold 1996 Chevrolet Silverado in Ellis [...]
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33-year-old Gustavo Garcia was killed 6:50 am Thursday morning after a tractor-trailer overturned on a North County freeway interchange crushing the sedan he was driving. The rollover accident transpired in Oceanside California shortly after Garcia drove onto the curving ramp from Southside Interstate 5 to eastbound route 78. The Mexican national, who had been living [...]
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Posted in Personal Injury, Truck Accidents on Aug 25th, 2009
A crash that transpired between a pickup truck and cement truck has killed a South Bay man, according to reports from the CHP. Over the weekend, the 32-year-old South Bay man was driving on an Escondido highway when he collided head-on with an oncoming cement truck. The truck crash, reported at 11:50 am on Saturday, [...]
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Posted in Truck Accidents on Aug 25th, 2009
Commercial trucks are everywhere and so is the danger large semis can pose to other drivers in given situations. This is because truck drivers have a more difficult time controlling their vehicle due to the auto’s weight and size, with most weighing more than 80,000 pounds and reaching 75 feet in length. In a traffic [...]
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Posted in Car Accidents, Truck Accidents on Aug 13th, 2009
When a propane tank blew up within a van on Tuesday, a car accident and significant delays were the unfortunate result. At around 11 on Tuesday morning, a van carrying a propane tank on Harbor drive exploded and then hit a truck going the opposite way, causing a head-on accident. By some miraculous happening, no [...]
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Posted in Truck Accidents on Aug 6th, 2009
A man from Valley Center is dead after crashing his truck into the median on State Route 63. At around 12:45 pm yesterday, the man progressed down the highway in his vehicle, a 2002 Ford F350. While driving, the man sustained some sort of urgent medical problem that may or may not have led to [...]
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Posted in Truck Accidents on Aug 4th, 2009
A truck traveling on Interstate 5 spilled a significant amount of diesel on a section of the highway in Encinitas. According to CHP, the accident caused a traffic alert to arise in that area when the spill took place on Tuesday morning. Some of the fuel was removed via a storm drain, but crews were [...]
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