Commercial Vehicle Accidents

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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,...

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...

It's no secret that driving while drowsy is extremely dangerous behavior. This is perhaps especially true for truck drivers, who may feel pressured to stay awake for long hours, even beyond what they are legally permitted to do under federal regulations. According to...

Any motor vehicle accident has the potential to be dangerous. Heavy metal vehicles that crash into one another at any speed, and if those vehicles are traveling at a high rate of speed, the results can be catastrophic. A motor vehicle accident that happened in...