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A late night crash on Saturday involving a semi-truck left four people dead and 17 injured in southeast Michigan.

A Dallas family of seven has filed a federal lawsuit against a North Carolina trucking company and its driver after they were seriously injured in a crash involving an 18-wheeler last November.

Truck safety lobby pressures DOT on crash prevention

Nine North American trailer manufacturers including the eight largest, have earned IIHS’ TOUGHGUARD AWARD for good rear underride protection on some or all of their trailers.

A compilation of the past week in social media images includes a fiery two-truck crash, huge Australian hail, big Plains snowflakes and more.

From 1987 to 2017, frontal air bags saved 50,457 U.S. lives.

The Federal Aviation Administration puts Transair on freeze because of safety concerns.

High rates of work zone crashes involving large trucks in Florida, Georgia and Texas have earned those states special attention from federal regulators this week as part of a national safety campaign.

Firefighters called a massive Fort Worth pileup a “mass casualty incident.” It happened on an icy highway Thursday.

“It was so hot in there,” trucker Harvell Martin recalls of pulling crash victim from fiery wreck after she spun out on rainy interstate.

A spate of deadly trucking-related accidents has taken place around Australia over the last week. Truck rollovers were a major contributor to the death toll. There was also a range of other tragic accidents involving moving vehicles. In other Down Under Trucking news, a criminal trucker gets years in jail for killing another driver; hill descent apps; Freightways buys Big Chill.

An AN-12 freighter made an emergency landing Friday morning (Oct. 4) about a mile short of Lviv International Airport in Ukraine, killing five people, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine […]

A weekly round-up of events in Australia. This week: Melbourne forces trucks out of the inner city; cleaning up asbestos roads; obeying road signage fail; road train safety inspections.

People between the ages of 15 and 25 are twice as likely to be involved in a fatal vehicle accident.

Australia’s National Heavy Vehicle Regulator has warned that grot and grime can obscure damage to parts during visual inspections; fatigue fractured leaf springs caused the death of truck driver Stephen Ross Brown.