In what could have been a serious incident on Monday, there were no serious injuries.

According to authorities, the incident happened just before 11.30 a.m. when a cargo trailer was being hauled on southbound Interstate 95. At around Exit 4 it then disconnected from the truck tractor pulling it and smashed into a passenger car. The car was then forced onto the Jersey barrier in the center of the highway in Cos Cob.

By the time that Greenwich fire fighters arrived at the scene, the female driver of the car was already outside of her vehicle and she was taken to an area hospital with minor injuries.

The left lanes in both directions were closed while heavy duty tow truck crews worked to remove the car from the median and the truck tractor and the trailer.

If you have suffered serious injuries as a result of a truck accident, please call our Connecticut I-95 accident attorneys at Hastings, Cohan, and Walsh, LLP, at (888) 244-5480 or contact us online today.

There have been several delays in areas east of Hartford due to a rash of accidents in Hartford.

According to a spokesman from Tolland Fire Department, an accident caused delays on the Interstate 84 west between Exits 68 and 67. The crash involved a car, a state Department of Transportation (DOT) plow truck and a tractor-trailer. The emergency management director, Fire Chief John Littell said that the driver of the DOT truck was treated at the scene and transported to Manchester hospital and the tractor-trailer driver was also injured and transported to Hartford Hospital.

Around about the same time, another crash blocked two lanes on Interstate 84 west near Exit 65 in Vernon.

State police said that a mix of snow and sleet, had begun falling at the same time as the evening rush hour, but they did not know whether the crashes were weather related. Both incidents were still under investigation.

If you have suffered serious injuries as a result of a truck accident, please call our Connecticut I-95 accident attorneys at Hastings, Cohan, and Walsh, LLP, at (888) 244-5480 or contact us online today.

An award of nearly $7.3 million has been awarded to the estate of a state Department of Transportation supervisor who was killed while working on Route 8 near Waterbury in 2012.

On March 22, 2012, 41 year old Daniel DiNardi, 41, of Rocky Hill, parked his vehicle on the shoulder of Route 8 North, just to the north of Exit 29 in the city of Waterbury and was picking up debris from the side of the road and putting it in his DOT truck, which had its emergency lights flashing.

At the same time, Gina Davies was driving a tractor-trailer when she suddenly veered from the northbound lane and onto the shoulder of the road, hitting DiNardi.  She said she was distracted by a phantom vehicle and was subsequently charged and convicted in August 2013 of misconduct with a motor vehicle and other offenses. She was sentenced to five years in prison, suspended after two years, along with three years of probation.

The trial lasted about six days in October this year and although Davies denied being at fault, having deliberated for 55 minutes the jury returned a verdict of $7,290,000.

If you have suffered serious injuries as a result of a truck accident, please call our Connecticut I-95 accident attorneys at Hastings, Cohan, and Walsh, LLP, at (888) 244-5480 or contact us online today.

Interstate 95 is one of the busiest roads in the United States which links the north to south from Maine to Florida. It is 1,918 miles long and started to be built back in 1956.

According to the Department of Transportation, 60 percent of I 95 is heavily congested and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data shows that the part of the I 95 in Florida is considered to be the deadliest road in American.

One of the major problems on the road is the number of crashes which involve trucks, especially rear end collisions. This type of collision does not just happen on the I 95, with two or three rear end collisions involving heavy trucks happening every hour somewhere in the United States. Unfortunately when a semi trailer is involved in this type of accident there is a much greater chance of an injury or fatality.  In 2012, in large truck crashes, 3,514 people died 67 percent of whom were in passenger vehicles.

However now, several companies are looking to develop special technology with a system which alerts drivers if they are slow moving or stationary vehicles or objects ahead and which automatically apply brakes if needed. It is yet to be seen if they are affective.

If you have suffered serious injuries as a result of a rear end collision, please call our Connecticut I-95 accident attorneys at Hastings, Cohan, and Walsh, LLP, at (888) 244-5480 or contact us online today.

Managing fleets of trucks and vehicles is a full time job but if procedures and policies are clearly laid down so that those operating the vehicles know exactly what is expected of them, then safety will improve and accidents should decrease.

As well as ensuring that the drivers are sufficiently well qualified to drive the particular vehicle, the vehicles themselves should be well maintained. Drivers should be told to carry out an inspection themselves each day before they leave in the vehicle, to check air in tires, sufficient oil and water and the lights all work.

They should also be educated in reporting maintenance issues and in how to get their vehicles fixed. Standards should be laid down to say how often a vehicle should undergo maintenance.

Organizations should invest in driver training to help correct any bad habits and companies should insist on drivers wearing seat belts, as according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, not wearing a seat belt leads to the deaths of more than half of fatally injured drivers.

Employees need to know the right way to report collisions, including who to contact and how to record the details, including taking photos of the scene.

By taking a proactive approach to fleet safety management, companies can help to protect the health and safety of their employees and deliver more profit to their businesses.

If you have suffered serious injuries as a result of a truck accident, please call our Connecticut I-95 accident attorneys at Hastings, Cohan, and Walsh, LLP, at (888) 244-5480 or contact us online today.

There is nothing like that sinking feeling when you are driving along and suddenly the car lurches to one side and you hear that horrid noise made only by a flat tire.

Although many drivers have roadside assistance who will come and fix it, if you cannot contact them it is smart to know how to change a flat yourself and almost everyone can do it.

Firstly pull over into a safe place and if your car is a manual transmission then leave it in gear. Make sure you set the parking brake. Next, turn on your hazard warning lights then get the tools you need out of your car; the jack, wrench and spare tire.

Use the wrench to loosen the lug nuts but just loosen them, don’t take them off. Then check your owner’s manual as to where to place the jack and use it to lift the vehicle up until the tire is around six inches off  the ground.

Now remove the lug nuts, put them in a safe place, and pull the tire off. Next, put the spare on the car and put the lug nuts back on, but not too tightly. Lower the car back down and remove the jack.  Now you can tighten the lug nuts, but tighten each one a little and then move onto the next, tightening each one several times until they are all done.

Put your flat and tools back in the car and you are set to go.

If you have suffered serious injuries as a result of an auto accident as a pedestrian or while changing a tire, please call our Connecticut I-95 accident attorneys at Hastings, Cohan, and Walsh, LLP, at (888) 244-5480 or contact us online today.

According to police a motor vehicle accident killed a Connecticut Army National Guard soldier and injured another on I-95 in Rye, N.Y.

The 21/2-ton Army National Guard truck was southbound on the I-95 in Westchester County when it crashed with a civilian vehicle, driven by Odson Meritle, 40, of Stamford, near Exit 21 at 10:22 a.m.

A National Guard spokesman said that Staff Sgt. Ronald Patterson Jr., of Bridgeport, was killed in the crash and Sgt. 1st class Kayla Anne Downey, of Shelton, was taken to a hospital for treatment where she was in critical condition but is now improving.

Meritle was taken to a local hospital and her injuries are said not to be life threatening.

The two soldiers were traveling in a Light Medium Tactical Vehicle, known as a LMTV, and were transporting spent ammunition from a recent training exercise to Fort Dix, N.J.

According to New York State Police the accident is still under investigation and so far no charges have been filed.

If you have suffered serious injuries as a result of an auto accident involving negligence, please call our Connecticut I-95 accident attorneys at Hastings, Cohan, and Walsh, LLP, at (888) 244-5480 or contact us online today.