{"id":6212,"date":"2012-07-23T12:31:32","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T19:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/?p=6212"},"modified":"2013-03-15T11:09:30","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T18:09:30","slug":"charlotte-nc-truck-accident-injures-seven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/6212\/charlotte-nc-truck-accident-injures-seven\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlotte NC Truck Accident Injures Seven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHARLOTTE, NC &#8212; An accident involving a vehicle and tractor trailer shut down the southbound lanes of Interstate 85 on Wednesday morning, July 18, after a driver of a truck attempted to take the exit off of the interstate, but swerved back into traffic and cut off the tractor trailer.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6219\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6219\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6219\" title=\"charlotte-nc-semi-truck-accident\" src=\"http:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/charlotte-nc-semi-truck-accident1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/charlotte-nc-semi-truck-accident1.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/charlotte-nc-semi-truck-accident1-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/charlotte-nc-semi-truck-accident1-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6219\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A passenger vehicle was completely demolished in a semi truck accident on I-85 near the I-77 interchange in Charlotte on July 18, 2012.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/WBTV.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=43662;hostDomain=www.wbtv.com;playerWidth=492;playerHeight=395;isShowIcon=true;clipId=7517464;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=overlay;galleryType=wnstory;galleryId=19052592'><\/script><\/p>\n<p>State troopers told WBTV the accident occurred at about 8:30 a.m. at the exit for Statesville Avenue where it created a pile up, and involved two other cars and another tractor trailer. Seven people were injured.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6221\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6221\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6221\" title=\"charlotte-nc-semi-truck-accident-map\" src=\"http:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/charlotte-nc-semi-truck-accident-map.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/charlotte-nc-semi-truck-accident-map.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/charlotte-nc-semi-truck-accident-map-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/charlotte-nc-semi-truck-accident-map-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6221\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map showing location of semi truck accident on the westbound I-85 in Charlotte, NC at Stateside Rd (Exit 39) on July 18, 2012.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\" http:\/\/www.wbtv.com\/story\/19052592\/tractor-trailer-crash-shuts-down-i-85-at-statesville-avenue\" target=\"_blank\">WBTV<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The crash is in the same location where a tractor trailer burst into flames on Friday, killing one person after the truck driver smashed into another vehicle. Three vehicles were involved total.<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina Highway Patrol tells WBTV that the location is considered a coincidence at this time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe it&#8217;s just a coincidence, we have a lot of wrecks in this area, it&#8217;s unfortunate that we had two serious ones here together,&#8221; said Trooper Glen Tupper.<\/p>\n<p>The tractor trailer driver, Nestor Estero was ticketed after the crash for failure to reduce speed to avoid a collision.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The incident remains under investigation at this time.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>For more information about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/North-Carolina.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">North Carolina trucking laws<\/a>, truck injury causes and victims rights, contact nationwide truck accident attorneys Gordon, Elias &amp; Seely, LLP for expert advice. For a free initial consultation, talk to a NC truck accident lawyer at 1.800.773.6770.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHARLOTTE, NC &#8212; An accident involving a vehicle and tractor trailer shut down the southbound lanes of Interstate 85 on Wednesday morning, July 18, after a driver of a truck attempted to take the exit off of the interstate, but swerved back into traffic and cut off the tractor trailer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,13],"tags":[84,308],"class_list":["post-6212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-carolina-truck-accidents","category-truck-accident-lawyers","tag-charlotte-nc-truck-accidents-lawyers","tag-north-carolina-truck-accident-attorneys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6212"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7252,"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6212\/revisions\/7252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}