Category: After the Crash

Every year people are injured or killed by falling cargo that was improperly secured. Proper load securement is critical because a semi pulling a trailer will be confronted with wind, poor road conditions, and other factors that can cause vibrations and movements that shake and loosen the load. Craig, Kelley…

Facts: The accident occurred in the early morning hours before sunrise. It was dark outside especially out in the country where the wreck happened. A school bus driver, driving her personal car, had left her house and was on her way to where the school buses were parked. She had…

Facts: The wreck occurred on a snowy day in Indiana on westbound I70. The snow had progressively gotten worse throughout the day. The roads were covered with snow and ice. Our client, a single mother, was driving home and was on I70 westbound between Plainfield and Terre Haute, Indiana. In…

We are about 3 weeks into the 100 deadliest days of the summer on Indiana’s roads and yet another crash involving two semis on Interstate 70 has claimed a life.  WTHR noted that an INDOT alert reported that two semis were involved in a crash around 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday…

According to an article on WTHITV.com four people were injured just before 9:00 p.m. at the intersection of St. Rd. 63 and CR 1650 N. in Vermillion County on Friday evening January 7, 2022. All four individuals in the 2004 Ford Taurus were injured in the collision with the semi. …

According to a recent Indiana State Police bulletin released on November 30, 2021, a 2013 Kenworth traveling southbound on I-65 driven by Walter Sutton, 50 of Lonedell, MO, for an unknown reason, left the roadway, went through the median and concrete barriers near the 179-mile marker.  The 2013 Kenworth hit…

According to an article posted yesterday, August 26, 2021 on patch.com, Patric McGlynn, 19 and John Paul Eckel, 21 were stopped in traffic on U.S. 30 when they were rear-ended by a tractor-trailer driven by Inderjit Singh Sidu, 28 of California.  The Freightliner semi driven by Sidu and the SUV…

The Indiana State Police are conducting an enforcement patrol in several areas across the state of Indiana today, July 14, 2021.  The troopers will be riding in commercial motor vehicles in this initiative and while they will not ignore dangerous traffic violations, their primary focus will be on drivers who…

Susan Stroh, 67, of Angola, Indiana was rear-ended by a Dump Truck owned by the Steuben County Highway Department on CR 200 North in Steuben County on Tuesday, July 6, 2021, around 12:45 p.m. according to a local news article.  It was reported that Stroh was eastbound on CR 200…

A 68-year-old Montgomery, Illinois man was pronounced dead at the scene when a semi stopped due to construction was rear-ended by another semi.  The other driver, a 54-year-old Pennsylvania woman was transported to hospital, but the injuries were not believed to be life-threatening.  The crash occurred in the southbound lanes…