18 Wheeler Accident

Published on: July 23, 2012

Driver Arrested After High Speed Chase

by Stephen Bilkis

Police in Long Island attempted to stop a driver suspected of drunken driving, explains a source. However, the driver was not willing to stop and instead took off at high speed. The police followed and this quickly turned into a very dangerous high speed car chase.

The driver is facing charges for drunken driving and also failing to stop and leaving the scene of a traffic accident.

The high speed chase started at around 3 PM. Police were alerted to the pickup truck which was driving dangerously by other drivers phoning it in. The vehicle was travelling westbound along the Interstate at high speed, with little regard to other people on the highway at the same time.

Published on: July 21, 2012

Driver to Blame for Causing Accident

by Stephen Bilkis

A woman involved in a traffic accident was severely injured and required urgent medical treatment. She was taken to hospital by air ambulance earlier this month.

The driver was involved in an accident with a large 18 wheeler truck. Eye witnesses which saw the accident unfold said that the lady looked like she had almost had one leg amputated as a result of the crash. A source has recently obtained new information about the accident.

The Nassau police department issued a report which said the woman was thought to be in a critical position. The emergency services were quick on the scene and had to use the Jaws of Life to cut her out of the car. Once removed from the vehicle the woman could then be airlifted to a nearby hospital for medical treatment.

Published on: July 2, 2012

Crash Saves Truck Driver’s Life

by Stephen Bilkis

An apple a day may or may not keep the doctor away, but the crash of an 18-wheeler saved the life of the man who was driving it. A reporter has learned that a truck driver is alive today because he wrecked his truck. On a busy highway just outside of Reading, PA, the cab of a semi sat atop a concrete barrier after the driver had blacked out due to a piece of an apple becoming lodged in his throat. At some point when the tractor-trailer struck the concrete barrier, the driver’s chest struck the steering wheel and the piece of apple dislodged and exited the man’s mouth.

A policeman in Queens was told by investigators that police found a chunk of an apple on the truck’s dashboard. They also stated that doctors backed up the truck driver’s statement that the crash had caused performed the Heimlich maneuver on the driver.

The truck driver was transported to the local hospital where he was treated for bruises, minor cuts, and a fracture in his back.

Published on: June 18, 2012

Good Samaritan driver tries to help before a wrong-way driver crashes to his death

by Stephen Bilkis

Saturday night, a man was simply driving home from his usual Saturday night dinners, when he witnessed a car driving down the wrong way at, reportedly 100 miles per hour, said a Lawyer.

“I witnessed something I will never forget,” the man from Nassau and Suffolk said, “Before I could get anywhere he zoomed right past me at 100 mph and almost blew me off the road! I could feel my car shake.”

The man used his cellphone to notify police immediately and then turned around and tried to stop the car himself. When police saw the wreck less driver in his Honda Accord, he reportedly sped up and continued in the wrong direction. “I could see his brake lights go on once he hit the curve and then I saw sparks fly all over the road.”

Published on: June 1, 2012

Semi truck crash closes major Interstate for several hours Sunday

by Stephen Bilkis

Sunday afternoon a semi truck driver lost control of his vehicle causing an accident that would leave the Interstate closed for several hours The driver reportedly was driving eastbound when he lost control and slammed into a concrete barrier. The force from the truck knocked down and moved five concrete barriers, which left the truck across the other side and in the other lanes of the roadway.

“This scenario is very dangerous always,” said one police officer. “Luckily nobody was hurt this time.” He added.

Sources said this type of incident often leads to multiple injuries and even death under the most desperate circumstances.

Published on: May 30, 2012

On July 25, 1967, a sixteen year old girl was walking on the sidewalk

by Stephen Bilkis

On July 25, 1967, a sixteen year old girl was walking on the sidewalk near 315 Lenox Avenue, Oneida, New York. A truck was travelling on Lenox Avenue, lost control and struck a parked car. It then jumped the curb and drove onto the sidewalk where it hit the girl causing her to be pushed under the porch of a house. This accident caused her serious injury. Her mother filed a lawsuit against the driver of the truck for loss of her daughter’s services and medical and hospital bills.

The driver of the truck denied all allegations. He denied that it was his truck. He denied that he was driving the truck. He denied that he lived in New York City. His allegations of complete noninvolvement were too false as to cause the court to comment on the impropriety of his denials. There is no reason to believe that he is not responsible for the accident.

When the driver of the truck commented on the accident, he advised that he was heading east on Lenox Avenue when his truck struck a parked vehicle, went out of control, and jumped the curb. He advised that two girls walking on the sidewalk tried to run up steps of a porch and his truck hit the girls and shoved the girls and the steps under the porch.

Published on: May 28, 2012

Truck company owner being charged for a truck accident that killed 19 people and injured eight others

by Stephen Bilkis

The owner of a truck company faces charges today for 19 deaths and 8 injuries in an accident involving his container truck.

A group of 25 people from New York City and Staten Island, who were traveling in a party bus to a wedding party, were unsuspectingly hit by a large container truck. The minivan was sideswiped and turned over, according to a witness.

19 of the people in the van died on impact according to police reports. Fire trucks and ambulances came quickly to the horrific scene and began to cut people out of the vehicle.

Published on: May 23, 2012

14 Dead as Tour Bus Slid into Pole

by Stephen Bilkis

Fourteen people have been confirmed dead following a horrific crash of a tour bus in The Bronx, New York, over the weekend. The tour bus was returning from a night out for its passengers at the Mohegan Sun Casino in eastern Connecticut. The 40-year old bus driver survived the crash and had told investigators that a passing tractor-trailer had clipped the bus thereby causing him to lose control of the vehicle before overturning and skidding almost 500-feet into a highway sign whose support structure then sliced through the bus.

While the investigation is still ongoing, there are some who are not quite as certain of the bus driver’s accounts; Investigators have been hearing witness and survivor accounts of the bus having driving across the rumble strips multiple times before the bus overturned. Rumble strips are placed along the shoulders of many highways in order to alert drivers whenever they are leaving the travelled portion of the roadway and are heading for the edge of the pavement. This system is put into place in large part to “wakeup” drivers who may be beginning to nod off.

There were 32 people on board the bus when it crashed – The 14 who perished, 17 survivors, and the driver. Of the 17 passengers who survived the crash, there were five who were critically injured, two suffered serious injuries, and eleven who suffered only minor injuries.

Published on: May 21, 2012

18-Wheeler Hits Car Then Overturns

by Stephen Bilkis

Added to a series of accidents involving tractor-trailers nationwide this year, a tractor-trailer hits a car before it overturns. Local authorities near Shreveport, LA, are in the process of cleaning up a two-vehicle collision involving a tractor-trailer and a car.

This accident occurred on southbound I-49 about 1a.m. Sunday. It began with the driver of the tractor-trailer becoming distracted while reaching for a bag of potato chips. While reaching for these chips, he allowed the truck to veer into the lane to his left. By the time the driver realized what had happened, he attempted to correct his path but in so doing, he wiped out the vehicle that was in the left lane. It was at this point that both vehicles overturned after leaving the roadway. Accidents like this are unusual in Manhattan and Long Island.

First responders arrived at the accident scene within minutes, rerouted traffic as necessary, and attended to the injured. Both the driver of the tractor-trailer and the driver of the car received life-threatening injuries. The car driver was stabilized for transport, airlifted from the accident scene, and taken to LSU Medical Center, where she remains in intensive care (ICU) in critical condition.

Published on: May 16, 2012

Bus Swerved Before Crash

by Stephen Bilkis

During their investigation of the tragic bus accident in the Bronx last weekend, investigators have learned that the bus swerved many times before overturning onto its side and skidding into a pole thereby killing fourteen people, a reporter has learned.

While many of the eyewitness accounts may vary depending on their recollection, most of them attest to the bus having swerved onto the rumble strips that are located on the shoulder of the highway multiple times before the bus crashed, a policeman was told. Rumble strips are placed on the side of the road in order to alert drivers whenever they drive near the edge of the pavement.

The bus driver has stated that the bus was clipped by a tractor-trailer, which caused him to lose control. Investigators have recovered a dash camera that was mounted on the front of the bus, as well as an engine-control module, so they may further investigate what was in front of the bus as well as the bus’ speed and other parameters to assist in their investigation. The engine-control module has been sent to a laboratory in Washington, D.C. The truck driver that is to have allegedly struck the bus has contacted the state police voluntarily and both he and his employer are cooperating with authorities. Authorities have also located both the trailer and the tractor that the bus driver alleges to have clipped the bus, and have taken them both in for analysis.