Posts tagged Trucking Accidents

• Semi Flies Off the Road near Purcell Oklahoma

  Jeremy Thurman | March 20, 2008 8:05 PM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  The Purcell Register is reporting that a Texas man remained in critical condition Tuesday after the semi he was driving left the interstate and landed on state Highway 74 (Grant Street) in Purcell. This is a horrible accident that shows the devastation a semi can cause in an accident. Our prayers go out to the families of those effecting by this trucking accident. I've posted the story...

• Making Uninsured Motorist Coverage Pay First Dollar

  Jeremy Thurman | March 20, 2008 7:50 AM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Here is an interesting legal secret that I have done for clients. In Oklahoma, you can make your uninsured/underinsured motorist carrier pay first in a car wreck or trucking wreck. This is often faster than dealing with the negligent parties insurance and can at times pay more since your UM carrier has a good faith duty to you, its insured.36 Okla. Stat. § 3636 specifically states that "for...

• Chickasha man dies in Blaine County crash

  Jeremy Thurman | March 14, 2008 3:04 PM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  According to newsok.com a Chickasha man died in a two-vehicle accident in Blaine County. Per the authorities, the now deceased Leon Smith was driving a tractor-trailer loaded with hay bales south on State Highway 8, about four miles south of Hitchcok, according to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.Smith tried to negotiate a curve at a high rate of speed when the tractor-trailer rolled on its side,...

• Distracted Driving

  Jeremy Thurman | March 13, 2008 6:27 PM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  I've become more and more fascinated with people who drive distracted. Whether text messaging, talking on a cell phone, doing makeup, shaving with an electric razor, styling hair, watching a movie, writing a grocery list, or putting in contact lenses: These activities have become common place on the America Road. Simply, with technology and are busy lives coming into one, more and more...

• As Prom Season Approaches

  Jeremy Thurman | March 13, 2008 4:15 AM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Being the father of a girl who will be going to her first prom this year and a trial lawyer, I have to admit that I'm paranoid. I'm paranoid about her behaviour because she is a great child. What I'm concerned about is the other chiildren attending these events and the statistics about car wrecks that come with the prom. Studies show that alcohol related crashes kill more people from the ages...

• Follow-up to Trucking Fatality Accident

  Jeremy Thurman | March 12, 2008 8:08 AM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK Category: Wrongful Death
  

  I wanted to follow up on the trucking accident that killed a family of 4 from Joplin, Missouri. Azcentral.com is reporting that police are recommending that the truck driver be charged with 4 counts of negligent homicide. If you recall, the accident happened in Pryor Oklahoma where the truck driver negligently rear-ended the family of 4 at a stop light.This sad story once again reiterates the...

• Family of Four Dies in Trucking Accident

  Jeremy Thurman | March 11, 2008 9:59 PM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  I just picked up this very sad story from the Joplin Globe. Apparenlty a family of 4 from Joplin was driving to Dallas when a Semi (truck) struck them from behind at a stop light. Sgt. Brent Crittenden of the Pryor (Okla.) Police Department said witnesses reported that the Hayes' vehicle stopped about 1:15 p.m. for a traffic light at U.S. Highway 69 and Southeast 49th Street."The family had...

• Crashes in Tulsa Area Claim 7 Lives

  Jeremy Thurman | March 11, 2008 9:13 PM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK Category: Wrongful Death
  

  In a very sad story, the Tulsa World is reporting that over seven people have been killed in crashes in the Tulsa area.Per the article, five people ages 18 and younger are among those killed. Seven people -- including two Catoosa teenagers and a Missouri family -- were killed in crashes Sunday in Green Country, and a Pawhuska teenager died Monday after a single-vehicle crash in Delaware County.

• Cell Phones and Car Accidents

  Jeremy Thurman | March 10, 2008 10:07 PM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  I recently bought a blue tooth headset for my phone. I bought this because I caught myself doing exactly what I condemn to insurance companies and juries in a car wreck case. What is that? Well, see I have this bad habit of talking on my cell phone while I drive. Many of our serious injury cases can be directly attributed to a driver talking on a cell phone and being inattentive. So i took...

• Two Teenagers Die In Weekend Traffic Accidents

  Jeremy Thurman | March 10, 2008 11:29 AM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  According to the Oklahoman, Two teenagers died inatraffic accident early Saturday, , according to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol. The two teens from Sasakwa were killed when the car they were riding in crashed about 2:30 a.m. on State Highway 56 in Seminole County, troopers said. The driver, an 18-year old, also of Sasakwa, refused treatment for his injuries at the scene of the...