Why has there been so many high-profile semi crashes in the Seattle metro area lately? Here's a sample of what we found in just the last few weeks in King County and Pierce County. On April 5, a truck driver was killed when his vehicle's brakes failed on a downhill slope in Tacoma, forcing [...]
Kevin Coluccio has earned certification in "Truck Accident Law" by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. It is the first— and only—American Bar Association accreditation for Truck Accident Law in the United States. Coluccio is one of only fifty attorneys who have earned Board Certification in this practice area. Board Certified attorneys pass a comprehensive [...]
The initial reports of 2019 fatal crash data indicate that the truck crash fatality rate for last year is nearly the same, or very slightly up, from 2018. The October Preview of Motor Vehicle Traffic Fatalities In 2019 from NHTSA shows: 5,005 fatalities in crashes involving at least one large truck* in in 2019, compared to 5,006 [...]
The National Transportation Safety Board released their final report on a 2018 fatal truck crash involving 3 semi-trucks and 4 passenger vehicles. The final report finds identifies issues from the NTSB's most wanted safety improvements list* as factors. The fatal truck crash On March 1, 2018, a commercial semi-truck driver merging into Interstate 290 in [...]
Early in the morning of February 20, a major semi-truck crash on I-5 shut down the interstate for several hours. Initial reports from Oregon State Police (OSP) indicate that the semi truck was headed southbound on I-5 near Wilsonville, Oregon, and crossed into the northbound lanes. It looks like four vehicles were involved in the semi-truck [...]
This post originally appeared on Coluccio-Law.com, and is reposted here with permission. The family of a pedestrian who was run over by a street sweeper have settled their wrongful death lawsuit against the companies that owned and operated the heavy equipment. In February 2018, the victim, Mr. Alexandru Culai, was struck and killed by a [...]
On February 22, 2004, Maria Federici was blinded and nearly killed by a piece of particle board that flew out of a rented trailer, struck her windshield and hit her in the face. The driver of the vehicle pulling the trailer had been moving all day, and failed to properly secure the particle board in [...]
On a dry and clear afternoon in July, an airport shuttle bus was headed north on International Avenue. A passenger car driver in the southbound lanes swerved over the median, and hit the side of the bus. One of the shuttle bus passengers was killed. Seven other people were injured. The fatal shuttle bus crash is [...]
It could be one of the largest jury verdicts in the U.S. for this type of case—a wrongful death caused by truck driver negligence. 30-year-old Sara Allison of Boise was hit head-on and killed by a semi-truck on Highway 20 near Burns, Oregon. Her husband Matthew Allison suffered life-threatening and permanent injuries. The semi-truck driver had been [...]
The headlines say things like "Three siblings killed in crash with semi parked on shoulder because driver was out of hours", and "Siblings die in horrific accident with semi truck on I-80". The news coverage of the February 28 collision between a minivan and a parked big-rig largely misses the point. This fatal highway crash didn't occur because [...]