Carolina Personal Injury News

North Carolina Ranked Sixth for Highest Number of Truck Crashes

Posted on May 04, 2010

More than half of the trucks inspected in North Carolina (NC) had maintenance or safety violations, according to ABC News. Of those faulty trucks, over 12 percent were in such bad shape that they were immediately parked and put "out of service". This could be why NC is No.6 in the country for highest rate of truck accidents. To learn more, check out the article written by my colleague Randy Appleton.

North Carolina Is One of the Top States for Truck Wrecks

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