An 18 wheeler was involved in an accident with a mini van and the truck driver was injured while a mother and small child in the mini van escaped injury.
Troopers are investigating the cause of the wreck and it is suspected either the mini van or the truck made an unsafe lane change. The truck accident turned serious for the truck driver when the cab of his rig hit a bridge column splitting the cab in two and flipping the tractor-trailer.
In 2008 alone, Texas had over 14,000 large trucks and busses involved in non-fatal crashes and over 420, fatal accidents. The vast majority of the injuries and fatalities were to persons other than the trucker.
Due mainly to the size and weight of the tractor trailers the truck drivers most often escape serious injury. That is not always the case, and we do see truckers seriously injured particularly where a big truck jackknifes and the truck driver loses any control of the vehicle.
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