Archive for November, 2007
Friday, November 30th, 2007
Tesco, DHL and the Royal Mail are among several high-profile companies about to embark on hybrid truck trials in the UK. Each operator has purchased its own Mitsubishi Canter Eco Hybrid 7.5-tonner (albeit subsidised by Mercedes-Benz), which will go into service in London in early 2008. The performance of the vehicles will be closely monitored by the operator and Mercedes-Benz. Transport for London is also involved, and will oversee the three-year trial.
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Police are urging motorists to drive more carefully following a chain of accidents in the vicinity of the Art Knapp’s nursery on Highway 97 South that involved a total of nine vehicles.
Police were already on the scene of a three-vehicle collision shortly before 9 a.m. when another two-vehicle mishap occurred on the northbound side, about 50 metres away, followed by two more two-vehicle rear-enders.
The series began with a pickup truck pulling a large trailer jacknifed and went into the ditch. A smaller pickup truck was rear-ended by a larger commercial truck as the driver had stopped to help.
On the bright side, all involved were wearing seatbelts and no one was seriously injured, police said, although an SUV was sent into the ditch and onto its side by another rear-ender about 50 metres away.
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
A Myrtle Creek woman is lucky to be alive after crashing under a semi trailer Tuesday night.
Douglas County Sheriff’s Deputies say 35-year-old Renae Wilson was heading eastbound through the construction zone on the overpass at the Tri City interchange, when a semi pulled out from the northbound off-ramp to go over the bridge.
Wilson apparently never saw the truck in time to even slow down, and crashed under the trailer.
The impact sheared off the top of the Toyota Camry, and bent the back axles of the trailer.
Wilson had to be extricated with the Jaws of Life by the Tri City Fire Department, but amazingly, the woman survived the crash, although police say she had several injuries. However, none appeared to be life threatening.
The truck driver, driving for Trucking Company Inc, from San Bernardino, California, was not injured.
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
A stolen pickup truck crashed into an apartment complex, coming within inches of hitting the family inside.
Aurora police said the truck was first spotted just east of the Denver/Aurora city limits Police identified the vehicle as being stolen and began a pursuit.
The driver continued west on East Colfax Avenue and after a short pursuit, the officer stopped the pursuit, police said.
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Police believe the pickup was driving on Yosemite Street and tried to turn onto East 13th Avenue, missed the turn, and spun out of control slamming into Idiris Muhina’s ground floor apartment.
Muhina said the truck missed his head by inches.
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
A hit-and-run sent two people to the hospital, including an 18-month-old baby.
The California Highway Patrol said Jimmy Dean Lynch sideswiped a car on Chester Avenue near Decatur Street, sending the driver Charlene Miller to the hospital with moderate injuries.
Lynch lost control of his truck, jumped a curb, hit a parked car and the front of Woody’s Liquors.
Witnesses said Lynch frantically jumped out of the truck holding a baby and took off running.
Brent Siffing, who witnessed the crash, said the baby was bleeding from the left side and head and Lynch was bleeding from the left side.
The baby was later located and taken to San Joaquin Hospital suffering moderate injuries.
According to the CHP, Lynch went to his mother’s. She called 911 for medical help. He was taken to the heart hospital and was arrested Wednesday.
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
After sluggish growth in the first half of this fiscal, Tata Motors has planned the biggest ever rollout of its heavy commercial vehicle range to rev up sales.
Tata Motors is in the process of rolling out half-a-dozen new products over the next couple of months. It will foray into the fast growing 49-tonne tractor-trailer segment by launching next generation trucks that will come from its fully-owned Korean subsidiary, Tata Daewoo Commercial Vehicles. These heavy duty vehicles will sport, for the first time in India, a 10-speed gear box and inverted bogey suspension.
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
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who is now 15, pleaded not guilty when he was in court.Officials said he will be tried as an adult
Homicide detectives said a family had gathered to watch a sporting event. when some members of the family noticed a white pickup truck pass the house and then circle around again.
They said a passenger got out of the truck while the driver yelled out a gang challenge.
Shortly afterward, shots were fired, fatally wounding two brothers standing outside of their parents’ home in the 600 block of Sawtelle Avenue. John Perez, 33, died at the scene. Frank Perez, 35.
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
State police continue to investigate a fatal crash in Oswego County. It happened at the intersection of Routes 69 and 17A in the town of Amboy.
Police say a tractor trailer, driven by George Pfeiffer, 52, of Port Leyden, went off the road.
The truck hit a tree, then traveled through a ditch and came to rest against a utility pole. Pfeiffer died at the scene.
Oswego County HAZMAT was called in to contain a diesel fuel leak from the truck.
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
A 22-year-old woman found dead in rural Knightsen died from blunt force chest injuries, likely caused when her own truck ran over her, a sheriff’s official said today.
The woman, who remains unidentified pending notification of family, was found by neighbors shortly the 1700 block of Green Acres Lane, said Jimmy Lee, spokesman for the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office. It appears she may have been dead for “several days,” he said.
Sheriff’s deputies found the woman’s Ford pick-up truck, which was towing a horse trailer, crashed into a shed on her property. The woman’s body lay about five feet from the truck, Lee said.
“Everything’s pointed to some sort of accident with the car … but it’s definitely not a homicide,” Lee said. “It appears she was accidentally run over by that vehicle.
“There’s still a lot of unanswered questions and there’s still things we’re following up on,” he said.
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
The Dodge County Sheriff’s Department is also looking for an older Chevrolet pickup truck that is believed to be involved in the intentional damage of about two dozen road signs Tuesday night.
Sheriff Todd Nehls said the damaged signs were discovered in the township of Oak Grove early Wednesday and included numerous stop signs, road signs and mailboxes.
Information provided to authorities has led them to believe the truck is two-tone in color with burgundy/maroon on the upper half and gray/silver on the lower half. The truck is also likely to have front-end damage and would be missing a portion of its grill.
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