{"id":1148,"date":"2015-05-21T14:39:49","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T14:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boston-personalinjury-lawyer.com\/blog\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2015-05-21T14:39:49","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T14:39:49","slug":"tractor-trailer-overturns-in-oklahoma-and-ends-with-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boston-personalinjury-lawyer.com\/blog\/tractor-trailer-overturns-in-oklahoma-and-ends-with-collision\/","title":{"rendered":"Tractor-Trailer Overturns In Oklahoma And Ends With Collision."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the American Trucking Association, large trucks and trailers moved over nine billion tons of freight across the United States annually. <strong>Because of the size and weight of tractor-trailers, they are likely to cause serious <a href=\"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/boston-massachusetts-personal-injury-information-lawyers-attorneys.php\">injuries<\/a> to drivers of cars and other automobiles involved in an accident.<\/strong> Trucks are harder to control because they have a longer stopping distance than those of cars. Every sixteen minutes, a person is killed or severely injured in an accident involving a massive truck.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o7KxBFmaidg\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Such a collision occurred on U.S. Highway 412 in Oklahoma at about 4:15 a.m. in March 2015. Milton Squires was driving a 2013 Volvo tractor-trailer when he became distracted. <strong>He then went off the road and struck an international box truck that was parked on the shoulder of the road.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The tractor-trailer continued to slide sideways before ultimately striking a ditch and began to overturn. Squires was unable to get out of his truck. <strong>He was stuck inside for almost two hours before being rescued.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Squires was later air-lifted to the Saint John Hospital and was admitted for multiple injuries, but was in stable condition. The other driver was treated and released for head injuries.<\/p>\n<p>If you or a loved one have been injured due to a distracted driver, contact our <a href=\"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/boston-massachusetts-auto-car-accident-injury-lawyers-attorneys.php\">expert automobile accident attorneys<\/a> <strong>24\/7 at 617-787-3700.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the American Trucking Association, large trucks and trailers moved over nine billion tons of freight across the United States annually. Because of the size and weight of tractor-trailers, they are likely to cause serious injuries to drivers of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/boston-personalinjury-lawyer.com\/blog\/tractor-trailer-overturns-in-oklahoma-and-ends-with-collision\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,12,16,4,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boston-personalinjury-lawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boston-personalinjury-lawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boston-personalinjury-lawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boston-personalinjury-lawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boston-personalinjury-lawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/boston-personalinjury-lawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1149,"href":"https:\/\/boston-personalinjury-lawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions\/1149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boston-personalinjury-lawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boston-personalinjury-lawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boston-personalinjury-lawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}