Posted January 7, 2009 By CBS Broadcasting     AURORA, Ill. (CBS) ― We know winter weather has its hazards. But there’s one hazard that most might not even think about. CBS 2′s Dana Kozlov reports one Aurora man had no choice.   One look at Pete Morano’s windshield and you’d think he’d been in ... Read more

Posted November 30, 2009 By:  WNCT.com   A tractor-trailer carrying 45-thousand pounds of hydrochloric acid overturned on a Kansas City interstate Monday morning (11/30), snarling traffic and prompting the city to open its Emergency Operations Center.   Clouds of hazardous gas escaped from the trailer and an unknown amount of acid spilled from the tank. ... Read more

Posted November 13, 2009 By Jessie-Lynne Kerr, jacksonville.com   A Circuit Court jury in Flagler County Thursday returned a $5.1 million verdict in a wrongful death case stemming from a 2006 fatal collision between a fully loaded tractor-trailer and a Honda minivan.   Ingrid Falkenstein, 67, who had just retired to Palm Coast with her ... Read more

Reported by: Ozarksfirst.com Tuesday, Oct 6, 2009 @08:32pm   (Miami, OK) — More legal trouble for a truck driver from Willard.   Donald Creed pleaded not guilty in Oklahoma a few weeks ago to negligent homicide. He’s charged with ten misdemeanor counts for that crash on I-44 that killed ten people.   It was back ... Read more

Published on August 25, 2009 by stltoday.com ST. LOUIS — A man severely injured in a pileup that killed three people on Highway 40 (Interstate 64) last year is entitled to more than $13.8 million from a truck driver and his company, a federal magistrate judge has ruled.   The man’s wife has been awarded ... Read more