The Auto Gamble

City looks to regulate heavy truck traffic (Edwardsville Intelligencer)
The city has a new plan to enforce its vehicle weight limit ordinance. This time there are no designs to establish a truck route, but rather a means to issue citations based on license plate classifications.

Port St. Lucie man accused of taking keys from FedEx truck (Fort Pierce Tribune)
Frank Moeller, 64, was arrested on charges of felony burglary, resisting arrest without violence and theft for suspected role in taking keys from a FedEx truck.

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August 30, 2008

Explosive truck-train collision in Okla. kills 2 (The Wichita Eagle)

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Explosive truck-train collision in Okla. kills 2 (The Wichita Eagle)
A locomotive train slammed into a propane tanker truck in north-central Oklahoma early Friday, triggering a huge explosion that killed the two-person train crew and injured the truck driver, authorities said. "It blew the semi tanker apart," Oklahoma Highway Patrol Lt. George Brown said. "The cab was on one side of the train and the tanker on the other." Mike Honigsberg, emergency management …

Truck crushes Berwyn garage worker (Chicago Tribune)
A Justice man was killed Thursday in a Berwyn repair garage when a semi truck rolled over him as he was checking its brakes, police said.

Bardstown police seeking truck linked to two thefts (Louisville Courier-Journal)
Bardstown police are looking for a maroon pickup truck they said was involved in a theft of items worth more than $5,000 from two storage facilities.

Tow truck driver arrested in auto thefts (Bradenton Herald)
Authorities say tow truck driver Brady Mason Sprague did not learn from his 2005 arrest and prison stint for illegally towing a car and selling it for scrap.

Motorcyclist killed in truck-tire accident (Galveston County Daily News)
LEAGUE CITY A man died Friday when a piece of tire knocked him off his motorcycle in traffic and then a truck ran over him.

Train hits tanker truck in Okla., killing 2 (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
MEDFORD, Okla. - A locomotive slammed into a propane tanker truck in north-central Oklahoma yesterday morning, triggering a huge explosion that killed two people and injured a third, authorities said.

Truck crashes into Canadian sushi joint, kills 2 (AP via Yahoo! News)
A pickup truck crashed through the front window of a busy sushi restaurant in Canada, killing two women and injuring six, police said Friday.

TWO HURT IN RIDGE DELIVERY TRUCK CRASH (Newsday)
Two men were seriously injured Friday when a car and bread delivery truck crashed head-on on Route 25 in Ridge. The crash was at 5:25 a.m. about 1,000 feet west of Wood Lot Road. Police said Christian McKelvey, 19, of Sound Beach, was traveling east on Route 25 in his 1996 Jeep Cherokee "when he swerved in the westbound lane" and collided with the truck driven by Jose Hernandez, 61, of Medford. …

Dump truck loses brakes in Black Hawk (Rapid City Journal)
BLACK HAWK — It took some good reflexes, but the man at the wheel of a runaway garbage truck near Black Hawk managed to miss homes along a curvy road as the unfettered vehicle lumbered downhill.

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Truck crashes into Canadian sushi joint, kills 2 (AP via Yahoo! News)

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Motorcyclist killed in truck-tire accident (Galveston County Daily News)
LEAGUE CITY A man died Friday when a piece of truck tire flying on the freeway knocked him off his motorcycle in traffic.

B.C. women killed when truck plowed into restaurant didn’t know each other: police (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)
MAPLE RIDGE, B.C. - An RCMP spokesman says two women who were killed when a pickup truck plowed into a B.C. restaurant didn’t know each other.

Tow truck driver charged with impersonating cop (Daily Record)
CHATHAM TWP. A tow truck driver was charged with impersonating a police officer after he allegedly smashed a car s window and told a resident he was a Madison cop hauling the vehicle for a charitable organization, police said.

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