Archive for November 28th, 2007
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
A 63-year-old man was crushed and killed dump truck he was working on in the city’s north end.
The man was working on the truck at a company site on Bridgeland Ave., in the Dufferin Ave. and Highway 401 area.
A part of the flatbed hydraulic truck, the type that drags large waste bins onto its bed, came down, crushing the man. He was pronounced dead on scene.
Investigators don’t yet know what caused the truck’s platform to come down on the man.
The Ministry of Labour visited the scene and is investigating. The address is a building used by Wasteco, a waste-disposal company.
The victim’s name hasn’t been released.
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
A Clover man driving a tractor-trailer was killed Tuesday morning after he drove his truck into a median on Interstate-85.
According to Ken Toney of the Spartanburg County Coroner’s Office, the driver, Robert Reece, 62, of 1250 Lawrence Rd. in Clover, may have died of natural causes before the wreck happened.
An autopsy is scheduled for later this afternoon.
The truck Reece was driving for Dyke Industries of Charlotte, N.C., veered left and slammed into a median on I-85, between mile markers 68 and 69 near Wellford, according to Lance Cpl. Kathy Hiles of the South Carolina Highway Patrol.
The inside lane was closed for close to 2½ hours, Hiles said, and no hazardous materials were spilled. Reece was wearing his seatbelt, Hiles said.
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
A man who was hijacked killed one of his three attackers by jack-knifing his truck on the N3 near Nottingham Road yesterday, police said.
Police Insp Joey Jeevan said that police had discovered a dead man at the wheel of Desmond Plaaitjies’s truck when they were called out to an accident scene on the N3.
Jeevan said investigations revealed that Plaaitjies had been sleeping in the truck near the Mooi River toll plaza the night before, when he was woken by three men who had beaten him unconscious.
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
An accident involving a tanker truck, a box truck and two cars sent three people to the hospital Monday,forcing authorities to close one lane of northbound Route 17 south of Passaic Street for about two hours, authorities said.
The accident was reported just before 3 p.m., according to the Bergen County Police.
The Bergen County hazardous materials team was dispatched after first responders reported an anti-freeze leak. The tanker was carrying heating oil, but there were no signs that its cargo leaked, police said.
The driver of the tanker truck was issued a summons for careless driving, police said. Authorities said that truck struck the box truck from behind, forcing a rear-end collision between the box truck and the car in front of it. That car, in turn, struck another car.
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) plan to conduct a study of truck-driver health.
The federal agencies are seeking comment before Jan. 2 on how to implement a nationally representative study of heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers, according to the CDC.
NIOSH intends to survey drivers at 40 truck stops nationwide, according to the institute. Specific locations have not been announced.
The effort to survey truck drivers comes after 2004 findings that truckers have a mortality rate 11 times higher than the general workforce and a higher prevalence of ailments, disease and injuries, according to the CDC.
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Pop the hood on Scott Ankeny’s 1986 Toyota pickup truck and you will find a quiet revolution.
The truck’s electric motor spins in silence.
And while General Motors and Ford scramble to develop all-electric vehicles for a growing market of environmentally sensitive drivers, hobbyists such as Ankeny already are building the technology of future cars.
As many as 5,000 do-it-yourselfers around the country have “recycled” their vehicles, doing away with a fuel-burning engine and going totally electric, says Bob Batson, who founded Electric Vehicles of America 20 years ago.
Interest is growing as gas prices climb and more people go looking for ways to reduce their impact on the environment, he says.
Ankeny believes people can make a difference with their personal lifestyle choices, even though the planet’s environmental problems may seem insurmountable.
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Police say a stolen pickup truck crashed into an apartment building Saturday morning.
Aurora Police say the Ford F-150 pickup was going westbound on Colfax around 10:23 a.m. when an officer tried to stop the driver. When the officer turned on his lights and siren the truck took off. Per Aurora police policy, the chase ended there.
Authorities say the 16-year-old boy driving the truck turned left on Yosemite Street and continued on.
Police say the boy then tried to negotiate a left-hand turn onto East 13th Avenue, but failed to make the turn, drove off the roadway and crashed into a multi-level, multi-family apartment, located in the 8800 block of East 13th Avenue.
A portion of the truck entered an apartment, but the residents, who were inside at the time, were not injured, according to authorities.
The teen, whose identity is not being released due to his age, could face charges of second-degree motor vehicle theft and felony eluding. The investigating officers say they are considering additional charges at this time.
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
FORT WORTH, Texas - Some owners of General Motors trucks and sport utility vehicles said they are frustrated with the company’s offer to help with broken speedometers.
NBC 5’s reported last week about trouble with speedometers in some GM trucks and SUVs. After the report, more drivers e-mailed to say they have also had problems.
The speedometer in Sonia Martin’s truck makes her look like a speed demon. With her husband on disability, Martin said she can’t afford the $400 it would cost to fix it.
“I didn’t have that kind of money, and I took it to two different dealers,” she said.
Hundreds of GM truck owners such as Martin have complained to the federal government about broken speedometers in full-size GM pickups and SUVs built in 2003 and 2004.
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
The seemingly never-ending line of trucks at the Kapıkule border gate, the world’s second-largest customs gate, has reached 17 kilometers as some 600 truck drivers wait for their turn to pass through the gate.
The line of trucks waiting at the Kapıkule border gate, the world’s second-largest customs gate in terms of both vehicle traffic and the number of people passing through, has reached 17 kilometers following a closure of the gate to all traffic after the Tunca River overflowed and caused mass flooding near the Bulgarian border pass of Kapitan Andreove. Authorities at the Kapıkule border gate noted that the three-day gate closure has caused trucks to line up in front of the Kapıkule gate and some 600 truck drivers are now waiting in line for their turn to pass through, saying: “As many truck drivers do not have transit bills to pass through Bulgaria and cannot use the Hamzabeyli border gate, they have to line up in front of the Kapıkule border gate. They have been waiting in lines for almost one week to pass through the gate to carry export goods to Balkan and European countries.”
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Vehicle apparently swerved to avoid school bus, overturned on Northern Parkway
Two Baltimore Department of Public Works employees were injured today when a trash truck overturned at Northern Parkway and Falls Road, knocked down a tree and hit four cars, city officials said. The intersection was closed to traffic for hours.
The workers, including the driver, were taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center. Police said their injuries were not considered life threatening.
Details of how the accident occurred were not immediately available. It happened shortly after noon and may have been triggered when the truck driver swerved to avoid hitting a school bus,” said Kurt L. Kocher, a spokesman for the Department of Public Works
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