Report: Large truck crash fatalities rose last year
On Behalf of O’Malley Tunstall PLLC | May 26, 2020 | Truck Accidents Regular readers of our Raleigh personal injury law blog will recall that we recently wrote a post about an unusual trend: though traffic during the pandemic is down in North Carolina, fatal crashes have remained steady. That phenomenon can be found in other places around the country […]
Trucker cited in North Carolina interstate crash
On Behalf of O’Malley Tunstall PLLC | May 4, 2020 | Truck Accidents The 94-mile drive from Raleigh to Archdale takes about an hour and a half. Interstate 85 essentially divides the town of about 11,000 residents in half. The busy highway was recently the site of a tractor-trailer crash that injured one of the town’s police officers as well as a […]
Does high caffeine intake indicate higher risk of truck crashes?
On Behalf of O’Malley Tunstall PLLC | Apr 22, 2020 | Truck Accidents Back in March, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration issued a national declaration that temporarily suspended hours-of-service regulations for truck drivers transporting emergency relief products and certain critical materials needed to respond to the coronavirus pandemic. A recent news article pointed out that many of those exempted […]
Research: Distracted driving more dangerous than drunk driving
On Behalf of O’Malley Tunstall PLLC | Mar 20, 2020 | Truck Accidents As we all know, drunk drivers have long been considered the most dangerous drivers on the streets of Raleigh and across the nation. New research makes it clear that it is time to reconsider those old ideas. While drivers impaired by alcohol are still as dangerous as […]
