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Accidents In 1999
NOTE: This year
499 lives were lost, 33,304 were injured and 43,991 vehicles, trailers
and other items were either destroyed or damaged.
This
data vastly underestimate the true magnitude of this public safety
issue.
Not all accidents are reported and the Uniform Traffic Accident Report does not have a section for Utility Trailers.Note: I have researched and have found over 5,100 accidents involving
Utility Trailers as reported by newspapers In this Year. I will feature 100 as
finances allow to purchase the articles and will provide summary's for as many as possible.
More To come!! Click Here To See The Un Organized List
7. Fort Pierce News (FL) - January 29, 1999
TRAILER STRIKES GIRL PLAYING IN FRONT YARD
FORT PIERCE - A trailer hauling two large cement mixers broke loose from the back of a moving truck last Wednesday and struck a 4-year-old girl playing in the front yard of her South 25th Street house.Brittany Leavesley was sitting on her front lawn playing with a purple toy truck about 5 p.m. when the trailer crossed at least two lanes of traffic and careened onto her play area near the driveway of her house at 2521 S. 25th St., Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Mac Mickens said....
8. Asheville Citizen-Times (NC) - March 2, 1999
LEICESTER WOMAN DIES IN CRASH WITH FLATBED TRAILER
LEICESTER - A Buncombe County woman was killed Monday when a bulldozer being towed by a dump truck came loose from its trailer, causing the trailer to crash into her car.Cleo Nora Reems, 57, died in the 8 a.m. wreck near the intersection of Leicester Highway and Anderson Road. Reems became yet another in a string of deaths caused in recent months by big, commercial trucks.According to Trooper Tim Jackson, the wreck happened as a 1979 Ford dump truck was traveling toward Asheville on...
9. Herald-Sun, The (Durham, NC) - November 17, 1999
Woman hurt after car hit by loaded trailer
A Durham woman was seriously injured when a trailer loaded with landscaping supplies broke loose from a truck and slammed into a car on Old Chapel Hill Road near the New Hope Creek bridge Monday morning, police reported.Jane Sherman of Kelly Drive was in serious and stable condition Tuesday at Duke University Hospital, where she was being treated for head and facial injuries.The accident happened around 9:12 a.m. when a "low boy" trailer pulled loose from an...
10. Stuart News, The (FL) - January 27, 1999
TRUCKER TO BE CHARGED FOR TRAILER THAT HIT GIRL
ST. LUCIE COUNTY - A truck driver whose trailer came loose Thursday, crossed two lanes of highway and struck a 4-year-old girl, neglected to hook up the safety chains that would have prevented the accident, officials said Tuesday.Robert N. Tucholski, 47, of Fort Pierce will be charged with improperly securing the trailer, said Florida Highway Patrol Lt. Pembrook Burrows.Tucholski was towing the trailer loaded with two concrete-mixing buckets when it came loose near 2521 S. 25th St.,...
11. The News & Observer - November 16, 1999
Woman hurt as unhitched trailer careers into car
Durham -- A wayward trailer smashed into a car and a minivan Monday morning in South Durham, critically injuring a 52-year-old woman who was driving the car.Rescuers worked for more than 35 minutes to free the woman, identified as Jane Sherman of Kelly Drive, from her crushed 1992 Mitsubishi Galant. She was taken by helicopter to Duke Hospital, where she was listed in critical condition late Monday.The wreck happened about 9:15 a.m. on Old Chapel Hill Road near the New Hope Creek...
12. Valley Times (Pleasanton, CA) - December 12, 1999
BART TRAIN HITS TRAILER
PLEASANTON A BART train crashed into a truck trailer that had careened off eastbound Interstate 580 at Hopyard Road Saturday morning.No one was injured in the crash, but BART service was disrupted for about an hour, from shortly before 9 a.m. until almost 10, said California Highway Patrol Officer Mike Rogers.The three-axle flatbed trailer broke loose from a truck, crossed freeway lanes and slammed against the BART fence in the center divider, he said.Part of the trailer came to...
13. Greensboro News & Record - May 2, 1999
CHECK THAT TRAILER BEFORE GOING BOATING
The boat trailer leads a hard life.In proportion to the strength of its frame, it has to bear a greater load than the vehicle towing it. And it's immersed in saltwater or freshwater each time the boat is launched and recovered.Boaters should ask some hard questions of themselves, say the experts: Were concrete blocks placed under the trailer's frame to take the load off the tires and axle during storage?Have all rust spots been sanded, primed and...
14. Albuquerque Journal (NM) - May 7, 1999
DRIVER TOWING TRAILER FINED10
Crash Probe Finds No Recklessness ARTESIA -- Lawrence Mathews, 75, who was towing the trailer that slammed into a church bus and then a pickup Sunday, killing seven, has been cited for driving over the center line.Mathews, from Dewey, Ariz., pleaded no contest to the charge Wednesday in Magistrate Court here and paid a fine of $10 and court fees of $39.Assistant District Attorney Floyd "Terry" Haake said no other criminal charges are expected against...
15. Seattle Post-Intelligencer - July 21, 1999
BUS HITS TRAILER NEAR I-90 PASS, MORE THAN A DOZEN HURT; NEITHER DRIVER CITED
More than a dozen people were hospitalized yesterday morning after a charter bus slammed into a flatbed trailer that came unhitched from its truck east of Snoqualmie Pass.The bus, a charter from Yakima, was bringing about 30 passengers home from Monday night's Mariners game when the 11:44 p.m. crash occurred.Bus driver James Pollard was thrown into water at the edge of Lake Kachess when his vehicle ran into a barrier after hitting the trailer. The 57-year-old West Richland...
16. Columbian, The (Vancouver, WA) - July 21, 1999
BUS DRIVER, TEENS THROWN INTO LAKE IN I-90 ACCIDENT
EASTON (AP) A bus carrying members of the Yakama Indian Nation home from a Seattle Mariners game collided with a loose flatbed trailer, hurling the driver and two boys into a lake at the edge of Interstate 90.Half of the 34 people on the bus were taken to Seattle-area hospitals after the crash, which occurred near Lake Keechelus shortly before midnight Monday just east of Snoqualmie Pass."I heard a big screech, and I felt the bus swerving. I sat up to look, and come this...
17 Stuart News, The (FL) - January 26, 1999
INJURY TO CHILD PROMPTS LAWSUIT
FORT PIERCE - Five days after a runaway trailer carrying two large cement mixing buckets struck a 4-year-old girl playing in her front yard, the girl's parents sued a Vero Beach crane company seeking thousands of dollars for pain and suffering.The trailer broke free from the back of a moving crane truck from R&J Crane Services on Wednesday evening and crossed two lanes of traffic on South 25th Street. It hit Brittany Leavesley and threw her 25 feet into her...
18. Rockford Register Star (IL) - October 26, 1999
PHOTO CAPTION
Trailer breaks free no one hurt Village of Winnebago police officer Jeff White talks with Ben and Donna Wilson of Cary as the Wilsons' travel trailer is righted by a crane Monday on U.S. 20 about a mile west of Montague Road. The Wilsons, two 14-year-old boys and a pet dog were uninjured in the accident, which tied up traffic for more than an hour. About 4 p.m., the trailer broke loose from a hitch on a Ford Expedition and rolled onto its side, blocking both lanes of eastbound...
19. Grand Forks Herald (ND) - December 6, 1999
THREE INJURED IN ACCIDENT ON U.S. 2 NEAR MICHIGAN
Three people were injured Sunday morning in a one-vehicle rollover near Michigan, N.D.According to the North Dakota Highway Patrol, Harris Saele, 54, Devils Lake, was pulling a trailer with his 1994 Ford Explorer east on U.S. Highway 2 when the trailer came loose.Both the trailer and the vehicle entered the median, and the Explorer rolled once, the patrol said.Saele was traveling with Dianne Saele, 52, and, Cathy Saele, 29, both of Devils Lake. Cathy Saele was the only passenger...
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7. Fort Pierce News (FL) - January 29, 1999
TRAILER STRIKES GIRL PLAYING IN FRONT YARD
FORT PIERCE - A trailer hauling two large cement mixers broke loose from the back of a moving truck last Wednesday and struck a 4-year-old girl playing in the front yard of her South 25th Street house.Brittany Leavesley was sitting on her front lawn playing with a purple toy truck about 5 p.m. when the trailer crossed at least two lanes of traffic and careened onto her play area near the driveway of her house at 2521 S. 25th St., Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Mac Mickens said....
8. Asheville Citizen-Times (NC) - March 2, 1999
LEICESTER WOMAN DIES IN CRASH WITH FLATBED TRAILER
LEICESTER - A Buncombe County woman was killed Monday when a bulldozer being towed by a dump truck came loose from its trailer, causing the trailer to crash into her car.Cleo Nora Reems, 57, died in the 8 a.m. wreck near the intersection of Leicester Highway and Anderson Road. Reems became yet another in a string of deaths caused in recent months by big, commercial trucks.According to Trooper Tim Jackson, the wreck happened as a 1979 Ford dump truck was traveling toward Asheville on...
9. Herald-Sun, The (Durham, NC) - November 17, 1999
Woman hurt after car hit by loaded trailer
A Durham woman was seriously injured when a trailer loaded with landscaping supplies broke loose from a truck and slammed into a car on Old Chapel Hill Road near the New Hope Creek bridge Monday morning, police reported.Jane Sherman of Kelly Drive was in serious and stable condition Tuesday at Duke University Hospital, where she was being treated for head and facial injuries.The accident happened around 9:12 a.m. when a "low boy" trailer pulled loose from an...
10. Stuart News, The (FL) - January 27, 1999
TRUCKER TO BE CHARGED FOR TRAILER THAT HIT GIRL
ST. LUCIE COUNTY - A truck driver whose trailer came loose Thursday, crossed two lanes of highway and struck a 4-year-old girl, neglected to hook up the safety chains that would have prevented the accident, officials said Tuesday.Robert N. Tucholski, 47, of Fort Pierce will be charged with improperly securing the trailer, said Florida Highway Patrol Lt. Pembrook Burrows.Tucholski was towing the trailer loaded with two concrete-mixing buckets when it came loose near 2521 S. 25th St.,...
11. The News & Observer - November 16, 1999
Woman hurt as unhitched trailer careers into car
Durham -- A wayward trailer smashed into a car and a minivan Monday morning in South Durham, critically injuring a 52-year-old woman who was driving the car.Rescuers worked for more than 35 minutes to free the woman, identified as Jane Sherman of Kelly Drive, from her crushed 1992 Mitsubishi Galant. She was taken by helicopter to Duke Hospital, where she was listed in critical condition late Monday.The wreck happened about 9:15 a.m. on Old Chapel Hill Road near the New Hope Creek...
12. Valley Times (Pleasanton, CA) - December 12, 1999
BART TRAIN HITS TRAILER
PLEASANTON A BART train crashed into a truck trailer that had careened off eastbound Interstate 580 at Hopyard Road Saturday morning.No one was injured in the crash, but BART service was disrupted for about an hour, from shortly before 9 a.m. until almost 10, said California Highway Patrol Officer Mike Rogers.The three-axle flatbed trailer broke loose from a truck, crossed freeway lanes and slammed against the BART fence in the center divider, he said.Part of the trailer came to...
13. Greensboro News & Record - May 2, 1999
CHECK THAT TRAILER BEFORE GOING BOATING
The boat trailer leads a hard life.In proportion to the strength of its frame, it has to bear a greater load than the vehicle towing it. And it's immersed in saltwater or freshwater each time the boat is launched and recovered.Boaters should ask some hard questions of themselves, say the experts: Were concrete blocks placed under the trailer's frame to take the load off the tires and axle during storage?Have all rust spots been sanded, primed and...
14. Albuquerque Journal (NM) - May 7, 1999
DRIVER TOWING TRAILER FINED10
Crash Probe Finds No Recklessness ARTESIA -- Lawrence Mathews, 75, who was towing the trailer that slammed into a church bus and then a pickup Sunday, killing seven, has been cited for driving over the center line.Mathews, from Dewey, Ariz., pleaded no contest to the charge Wednesday in Magistrate Court here and paid a fine of $10 and court fees of $39.Assistant District Attorney Floyd "Terry" Haake said no other criminal charges are expected against...
15. Seattle Post-Intelligencer - July 21, 1999
BUS HITS TRAILER NEAR I-90 PASS, MORE THAN A DOZEN HURT; NEITHER DRIVER CITED
More than a dozen people were hospitalized yesterday morning after a charter bus slammed into a flatbed trailer that came unhitched from its truck east of Snoqualmie Pass.The bus, a charter from Yakima, was bringing about 30 passengers home from Monday night's Mariners game when the 11:44 p.m. crash occurred.Bus driver James Pollard was thrown into water at the edge of Lake Kachess when his vehicle ran into a barrier after hitting the trailer. The 57-year-old West Richland...
16. Columbian, The (Vancouver, WA) - July 21, 1999
BUS DRIVER, TEENS THROWN INTO LAKE IN I-90 ACCIDENT
EASTON (AP) A bus carrying members of the Yakama Indian Nation home from a Seattle Mariners game collided with a loose flatbed trailer, hurling the driver and two boys into a lake at the edge of Interstate 90.Half of the 34 people on the bus were taken to Seattle-area hospitals after the crash, which occurred near Lake Keechelus shortly before midnight Monday just east of Snoqualmie Pass."I heard a big screech, and I felt the bus swerving. I sat up to look, and come this...
17 Stuart News, The (FL) - January 26, 1999
INJURY TO CHILD PROMPTS LAWSUIT
FORT PIERCE - Five days after a runaway trailer carrying two large cement mixing buckets struck a 4-year-old girl playing in her front yard, the girl's parents sued a Vero Beach crane company seeking thousands of dollars for pain and suffering.The trailer broke free from the back of a moving crane truck from R&J Crane Services on Wednesday evening and crossed two lanes of traffic on South 25th Street. It hit Brittany Leavesley and threw her 25 feet into her...
18. Rockford Register Star (IL) - October 26, 1999
PHOTO CAPTION
Trailer breaks free no one hurt Village of Winnebago police officer Jeff White talks with Ben and Donna Wilson of Cary as the Wilsons' travel trailer is righted by a crane Monday on U.S. 20 about a mile west of Montague Road. The Wilsons, two 14-year-old boys and a pet dog were uninjured in the accident, which tied up traffic for more than an hour. About 4 p.m., the trailer broke loose from a hitch on a Ford Expedition and rolled onto its side, blocking both lanes of eastbound...
19. Grand Forks Herald (ND) - December 6, 1999
THREE INJURED IN ACCIDENT ON U.S. 2 NEAR MICHIGAN
Three people were injured Sunday morning in a one-vehicle rollover near Michigan, N.D.According to the North Dakota Highway Patrol, Harris Saele, 54, Devils Lake, was pulling a trailer with his 1994 Ford Explorer east on U.S. Highway 2 when the trailer came loose.Both the trailer and the vehicle entered the median, and the Explorer rolled once, the patrol said.Saele was traveling with Dianne Saele, 52, and, Cathy Saele, 29, both of Devils Lake. Cathy Saele was the only passenger...
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