A Georgia truck driver has been charged with multiple violations after causing a four-vehicle accident that killed two people. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 38-year-old Stephen Scott was driving a box truck when he slammed into the back of a Nissan Altima that was slowed in traffic on I-985 in Gwinnett County. The Altima then smashed into a Dodge Ram pickup and a Saturn minivan towing a trailer with an ATV. The two occupants of the pickup were taken to the hospital with...
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Charges have been filed against a man who allegedly crushed two police cruisers with a dump truck after a verbal dispute turned ugly. Officers arrived at the house of a man who was having a verbal dispute with another individual, and the discussion was calm at first. According to Police One, 48-year-old Ronald Moss snapped at a point during the dispute, jumping into the dump truck in his driveway and backing up over two police cruisers which had been parked behind it....
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Charges have been filed against the driver of a truck that allegedly ran over a young girl in Cedartown, leaving her seriously injured. According to the Rome News-Tribune, 63-year-old Billy Don Sims was arrested after his 18-wheeler struck 6-year-old Zyliyah Washington while she was riding her bike. The Cedardown resident and driver for H & W Trucking Co. allegedly left the scene of the accident. It...
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The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has recommended that all commercial truckers should be banned from communicating via cell phone while driving. Fueled by a fiery Kentucky crash in 2010 that killed the truck driver and ten others, the advisory body joined a host of other parties in pushing for a total ban on cell phone (except in emergencies) use in commercial trucks. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) had previously banned texting by commercial drivers in 2010, according to Read More

A recent Georgia truck accident was likely the result of mechanical failure, according to reports. Two individuals were injured in the Oconee County crash, which involved a tractor trailer, a concrete truck, and a passenger car. 

The accident took place on U.S. 441, and was allegedly the result of the left front tire coming loose from the tractor trailer, which was heading south on the highway. The truck then lost control, sideswiping a concrete truck headed in the...
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A Georgia Department of Transportation (DOT) worker, 27-year-old Troy Moore of Conyers, was injured when he was struck by a tractor trailer along Interstate 85 in Gwinnett County on Tuesday. The Highway Emergency Response Operator (HERO) employee was removing tire debris on the metro Atlanta freeway at around 4pm when a tractor trailer hit two vehicles that had stopped for the worker, and then hit the worker. The HERO employee was conscious...
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