{"id":6637,"date":"2012-11-08T10:00:32","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T18:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/?p=6637"},"modified":"2013-03-15T11:09:30","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T18:09:30","slug":"semi-truck-driver-killed-after-crashing-into-canton-city-office-complex-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/6637\/semi-truck-driver-killed-after-crashing-into-canton-city-office-complex-in-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Semi Truck Driver Killed After Crashing into Canton City Office Complex in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CANTON, Texas &#8212; The Department of Public Safety reported on Tuesday, Nov. 6, that a semi truck driver died after his 18 wheeler slammed into the Canton City Office Complex. The city of Canton is about 58 miles southeast of Dallas.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6639\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6639\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6639\" title=\"canton-tx-fatal-semi-truck-crash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/canton-tx-fatal-semi-truck-crash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/canton-tx-fatal-semi-truck-crash.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/canton-tx-fatal-semi-truck-crash-150x103.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/canton-tx-fatal-semi-truck-crash-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6639\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A semi truck pulling a rock hauler crashed into a government building in Canton, TX killing the driver and starting a blaze on November 6, 2012.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->According to officials, the accident occurred at about 1:30 p.m when the semi collided with a sport utility vehicle and veered across a lane of traffic before crashing into the small house like structure, catching fire upon impact.<\/p>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/kltv.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=797718;hostDomain=www.kltv.com;playerWidth=492;playerHeight=355;isShowIcon=true;clipId=7928227;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=;enableAds=false;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=overlay;galleryType=wnstory;galleryId=20018523'><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to the media there were five people inside the building at the time of the crash, but all were reported to have escaped unharmed.<\/p>\n<p>No other injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Posted by <a title=\"Dallas truck accident lawyer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/Northeastern-Texas.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas truck accident lawyer<\/a> Gordon, Elias &amp; Seely, LLP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CANTON, Texas &#8212; The Department of Public Safety reported on Tuesday, Nov. 6, that a semi truck driver died after his 18 wheeler slammed into the Canton City Office Complex. The city of Canton is about 58 miles southeast of Dallas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[318],"class_list":["post-6637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-texas-truck-accidents","category-truck-accident-lawyers","tag-dallas-truck-accident-lawyer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6637","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=6637"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7224,"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6637\/revisions\/7224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}