Posts tagged trucking accident

• Moore Truck Driver Dies in Tulsa Accident

  Jeremy Thurman | August 13, 2009 10:22 AM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  People often assume trucking lawyers are automatically against truck drivers and assume the worse. We discuss horror stories such as the devastating wreck that killed ten people on the Will Rogers...

• Trucking Litigtion - How to Level the Playing Field Against the Trucking Company

  Jeremy Thurman | June 27, 2009 11:32 PM | 1 CommentOklahoma City, OK Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  On June 26, 2009 we saw one of the most horrific trucking accidents Oklahoma has ever suffered. You may recall that 9 people were killed in that accident and several others injured when 76 trucker...

• New Information On Will Rogers Tractor-trailer Crash Emerging

  Jeremy Thurman | June 27, 2009 2:09 PM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  According to newsok.com, new details are starting to emerge about the catastrophic crash that took place on the Will Rogers Turnpike NE of Tulsa yesterday. Oklahoma highway patrolmen are stating...

• 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...