Semi-truck crashes causing personal injury and attorney commentary

Taking a look at today's accidents we have two with spilled food; one of which is Bud Light! Are they giving away the dented cans? The driver wasn't injured, luckily. The other food related story is out of Indiana where a semi-truck hauling French fries overturned off of I-80. The driver says another car cut him off. There is a third story where the small sedan was run off the road and the driver was hospitalized.

Here at home a semi-truck and a pickup truck collided on Highway 218 near downtown Waterloo. In this mishap the semi-truck driver is reported to have run a red light striking a vehicle being driven by Tammi C. Fredericksen of Cedar Falls and sending her to the hospital with broken bones and numerous injuries. According to the story the semi-truck driver, Michael Butler was issued a ticket for running the light. That should make it easier for Fredericksen to prove her case. Waterloo is my old stomping grounds; I was a lawyer there for five-years with the Mosier Firm on Brockway. If I can assist in any way don't hesitate to call upon us, we work across the entire state of Iowa. (515-222-1110 or sdlombardi@aol.com.)

In Springfield, Missouri the State Patrol was busy with a death resulting from a car driver pulling her car into the path of an oncoming semi-truck.

UPDATE WITH NAMES: Highway 218 near downtown Waterloo blocked by semi-pickup crash
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier
(BRANDON POLLOCK / Courier Staff Photographer) WATERLOO --- On Tuesday, at about 9:40 am, Waterloo police and Waterloo Fire Rescue responded to West Ninth Street and Highway 218 southbound on a report of a car and semi-truck accident. ...

45000 pounds of Bud Light spilled in Cedar Rapids
KTIV
A semi truck accident in Cedar Rapids is slowing traffic in the I-380/Hwy. 30 area in Cedar Rapids. Greg Buelow, Public Information Officer for the Cedar Rapids Fire Department, says a semi truck carrying 45000 pounds of Bud Light overturned on the ...

UPDATE: 45000 pounds of Bud Light spilled in Cedar Rapids ...
A semi truck accident in Cedar Rapids is slowing traffic in the I-380/Hwy. 30 area in Cedar Rapids.
www.kwwl.com/.../semi-truck-accident-slowing-traffic-in-ceda...

Semi Truck Hauling Load of French Fries Overturns in Indiana
MyFox Chicago
A co-driver, 54-year-old Jose Velazquez of Mount Joy, Pennsylvania, was in the truck's sleeper birth when the accident occurred and had to be extricated. Both Antar and Velazquez were taken to St. Mary's Medical Center in Hobart for injuries that were ...

I-85 NB open again after Semi-truck accident
WSFA
According to troopers, a crash involving a personal vehicle and a tractor-trailer occurred shortly after 10:00 am on I-85 northbound at the 51 mm. The tractor-trailer overturned on to a concrete barrier. The personal vehicle was able to leave the scene ...

Family looking for semi-truck driver who ran car off road
KSL-TV
"What we need from anybody out there, who may have been in the canyon around nine in the morning, is any witness to the accident who could give us information." According to the Highway Patrol, the driver of the semi- truck did not stop after running ...

Semi truck crash kills Springfield woman
Springfield News-Leader
A Springfield woman died today when she pulled her car into the path of a tractor-trailer, the Missouri State Highway Patrol reported. Troopers say Nancy Moss, 76, failed to yield to traffic on Missouri Highway 14 in Lawrence County. ...

2 Men Injured in Semi-Truck Collision South of Bagley, MN
WDAY
SOUTH OF BAGLEY, MN (WDAZ-TV) - Two men were injured in an accident between a pickup and a semi south of Bagley early Thursday morning. SOUTH OF BAGLEY, MN (WDAZ-TV) - Two men were injured in an accident between a pickup and a semi south of Bagley ...