If you are the average American citizen, getting behind the wheel of your car is the most dangerous thing you do. However, while getting into an accident with another passenger vehicle can be extremely dangerous, that danger multiplies when the other vehicle is a semi...
Lawsuit filed by conductor in Amtrak derailment
A 33-year-old resident of New Jersey who was working as a conductor on a derailed Amtrak train has filed a lawsuit against Amtrak for serious injuries he claims to have suffered in the fatal accident on May 12. The man was on a break to use the restroom when the...
The importance of truck safety in New Jersey
According to the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, many changes need to be made to improve trucker safety. Such changes include anti-collision technology, better hours for truckers and better regulation of companies with high accident rates. These are among...
Multi-vehicle accident on turnpike injures 10
An accident on the New Jersey Turnpike in the morning rush hour left 10 people injured on Dec. 17. An investigation into why the crash happened is ongoing, and no charges have been filed as of the time of this report. The crash involved three tractor-trailers and a...
Multi-vehicle semitrailer crash kills 1
A crash on the New Jersey Turnpike resulted in death for one of the truckers involved when three semitrailers collided and caught fire the evening of Nov. 18. Although no charges or citations have been issued as of this report, a New Jersey State Police representative...
Wal-Mart blames Tracy Morgan, other passengers for their injuries
Despite initial assurances from Wal-Mart that they would take full responsibility for the New Jersey accident that injured Tracy Morgan and killed a passenger in the limousine in which they were riding, a responsive filing by the retailer in the federal lawsuit partly...
New Jersey tractor-trailer accident kills 1, injures 1
A Sept. 26 accident in New Jersey left one person dead and hospitalized another. According to authorities, the Teaneck incident occurred at about 5 a.m. in the northbound lanes of Interstate 95 at the Interstate 80 junction. That is where a tractor-trailer crashed...
Lawsuit to follow fatal airport parking lot accident
Around 4 a.m. in November 2012, a 61-year-old man was in a parking lot at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey. At the same time, a driver for Academy Bus Lines was preparing for his day of transporting passengers between various parking lots and airport...
Interstate accident kills 3
On Aug. 27, a dump truck traveling east on Interstate 280 in New Jersey crashed into several other vehicles, one of which burst into flames, killing all three occupants. According to police, the accident happened around 10:30a.m in East Orange. The car that was...
New Jersey truck accident kills 3, injures 4
A fiery crash killed three people and injured four others on Interstate 280 in East Orange. The accident involved a tractor-trailer truck that was hauling garbage and five other passenger vehicles. It happened at about 10:30 a.m. on August 27 in the eastbound lanes....
New Jersey man dies after car submerged in lake
A New Jersey man died in a collision in Lawrence that sent his car into a lake on July 17. Police filed charges against the driver of the dump truck involved in the commercial vehicle accident the following day. Police charged the man with driving while intoxicated at...
Truck accident on Route 287 kills 3
Three New Jersey men died in a Mahwah crash involving three vehicles, including two large commercial trucks with heavy loads. According to authorities, the June 24 incident occurred on the northbound lanes of Route 287. Authorities said that two men, ages 42 and 22,...
Accident similar to Morgan’s happens again in New Jersey
Last week, we wrote about the accident on the New Jersey Turnpike that killed one man and critically injured several others, including comedian Tracy Morgan. The accident came about when a tractor-trailer rear-ended a luxury bus that was transporting the group from a...