Trucking Accidents

A 20-year-old male electrician sustained fractures to the face and his right leg which required surgery when the vehicle in which he was traveling struck a tractor trailer as it negligently exited a gas station.

A 67-year-old married man killed when a speeding, overweight semi-tractor trailer rig strikes his vehicle.

Truck rear-ends car with a 71-year-old driver, killing him.

Truck loses control and strikes car, killing young mother of two in Indiana.

A mother and her two children involved in a devastating truck-car collision on Interstate 90 near Rockford in 1999. After a month-long trial in the Cook County Circuit Court, Mr. Durkin received a $38.3 million verdict on behalf of the family in March, 2004 – the largest in the country that year involving a motor vehicle crash and was featured as one of the Top 100 Verdicts in the National Law Journal in 2005. Click here to read more about this case.

A 37-year-old woman suffered a broken leg when struck by a truck when crossing the street in Chicago.

42-year-old woman is killed when her car is struck by semi-tractor trailer rig making an improper right turn.

Six-year-old boy is struck and killed by a garbage truck while riding his bicycle. The truck driver did not see him because his vehicle was not equipped with proper side and back mirrors to spot children nearby.

Drunken driver kills one person and injures three others in Sioux Falls.