Tractor-Trailer Accidents

• Wrong-Way Accidents: Call for articles, posts, studies and related information on wrong-way drivers – ghost drivers!

  Steve Lombardi | June 23, 2009 9:17 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Wrong way drivers have become increasingly a problem on the Interstate highway system. I’ve blogged about it before and have been collecting wrong-way highway collision news for...

• Wrong-way drivers on I-80 Interstate are a problem

  Steve Lombardi | June 09, 2009 8:26 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  At the 104 mile marker east bound on I-80 a Honda Civic being driven by an unidentified driver was driving westbound and struck a 2005 semi-truck driven by Mann Ravinder of Bay Point, California....

• Iowa's smallest pedestrians require extra special attention and care by truck drivers

  Steve Lombardi | June 03, 2009 10:12 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  For the last week I've been posting on the Lombardi Law Firm web blog about pedestrian safety. A Google Alert came across my computer screen last Wednesday that is incredibly sad and for that reason...

• Multi-car-truck collision in rural Iowa kills two - One vehicle 3 collisions and then catches fire.

  Steve Lombardi | May 26, 2009 10:02 PM | 17 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Two people died while another five suffered injuries in Washington County, Iowa. This multiple car collision happened on May 23, 2009 at Highway 92 and Lexington Avenue around 2:37 P.M. The crash...

• I-80 Iowa Interstate rear-end crash victims identified

  Steve Lombardi | May 17, 2009 9:58 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  We had earlier reported on an I-80 multi-vehicle collision. A semi-truck driver ran into the rear of one vehicle pushing it into others. It’s reported that several people died in the crash....

• Dump truck wins in Iowa crash; Bremer County collision sends drivers to the hospital

  Steve Lombardi | May 14, 2009 10:19 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  An accident between a car and dump truck on Highway 63 in Bremer Count, Iowa sent the drivers of the two vehicles to Iowa hospitals. The dump truck driver is Loyd Kildow of Hillsboro and he was...

• Mess in eastern Iowa on I-80 from pileup closes interstate for hours; was texting involved?

  Steve Lombardi | May 13, 2009 7:35 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Names of those killed are not being disclosed until relatives are notified. What we know is the driver of a semi-truck on I-80 in Scott County, Iowa drove into a construction zone and rear ended...

• Combination trucks lead to increased fatalities in auto accidents

  Megan Roth | April 25, 2009 5:51 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  In 2007, there were 37, 248 fatal automobile accidents in the U.S; of those, large trucks were responsible for eight percent of the reported fatalities (74 percent of the 4584 large trucks involved...

• Driving Safety: A Critical Margin of Safety

  Steve Lombardi | April 14, 2009 11:16 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  On March 30, 2009 at 1:30 38 year old Jeffery Hamman of Sioux City hit a semi (drove his pickup truck right into the rear) that was pulled over on the shoulder for a mechanical problem. The...

• Driver Safety: Failing to yield the ROW, kills one driver and injures anothers on I-35 southbound, Ames, Iowa

  Steve Lombardi | April 14, 2009 3:59 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Garrett Chitty, 17, tried entering I-35 southbound where little room existed, stuck another truck being driven by Lewis Thomas of Cleveland, Ohio. Thomas’ truck moved over to the left striking...