Category: Truck Accidents

A container loaded with 68 cattle destined for a feedlot fell off a tractor-trailer on Interstate 95 near Sunnyside, Wash., this month, killing 23 cattle, according to a news report. The container slid about 200 feet and landed on its side. A commercial tow truck righted the container while the…

The driver of a truck hauling wastewater runoff from a landfill was killed this month when his vehicle rolled over as it approached an intersection on Route 702 near McKenna. Although there was heavy fog at the time, officials did not know whether it contributed to the accident, according to…

A woman was hospitalized recently after her pickup collided with a boat and trailer that had become detached from a truck on a Washington highway. According to a news report, a Vancouver man was pulling the boat on a trailer with his 1994 GMC pickup when the trailer became unhitched….

A truck driver failed to stop for a red light last Friday at the intersection of West Wapato Road andI-97, according to the Washington State Patrol, as reported by the Yakima Herald. As a result, the truck plowed into a passenger vehicle driven by a 23-year-old Wapato man. Both the…

The Washington State Department of Labor and Industry has issued a hazard alert to the agriculture industry as a response to an unusually high number of Lower Valley tractor accidents already this year, reports the Yakima Herald. The alert follows the death of an orchard employee in Wapato last week…

News about yet another traffic accident is certainly nothing new. However, when the accident in question involves a cattle round-up and a collision with a law enforcement vehicle, the story becomes interesting, to say the least. Such was the scene on Interstate 82 near Prosser recently when a tractor-trailer hauling…

Most people have heard the term “whiplash” before, but few really understand what it is and what it means to suffer from whiplash. Unfortunately, the term whiplash has gotten a bad name over the years, in part because of the way it has been portrayed in the media. Whiplash has…

Although Yakima is hardly the congested metropolis that New York City or Los Angeles is, it does have its share of traffic — much of it in the form of commercial vehicles. Despite advances in just about every conceivable area of our daily lives, we still have not come up…

Throughout the United States, trucks remain the most common way to transport goods across cities, states and even the entire country. While we may be able to communicate with someone halfway across the world via video chat technology, or store an entire office worth of files on something as small…