{"id":8181,"date":"2013-08-13T14:20:40","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T21:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/?p=8181"},"modified":"2013-08-13T14:20:40","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T21:20:40","slug":"texas-trucker-rolls-semi-truck-and-averts-collision-in-lafayette-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/8181\/texas-trucker-rolls-semi-truck-and-averts-collision-in-lafayette-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Trucker Rolls Semi Truck and Averts Collision in Lafayette, IN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAFAYETTE, IN &#8211; A semi truck driver from Joshua, Texas rolled his big rig while averting a collision on Interstate 65 in Lafayette, IN. The city of Lafayette is located in Tippecanoe County in the northwestern part of the state about 60 miles northwest of Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8185\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8185\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8185 \" title=\"lafayette-in-semi-truck-accident\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/lafayette-in-semi-truck-accident.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/lafayette-in-semi-truck-accident.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/lafayette-in-semi-truck-accident-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/lafayette-in-semi-truck-accident-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8185\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A semi truck rolled over onto its side while trying to avoid a crash in slow traffic on the northbound I-65 near Indiana Highway 26 in Lafayette, IN on August 7, 2013.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->The accident happened on Wednesday, August 7, at about 6:45 a.m. on the northbound I-65 about a half mile north of Indiana State Highway 2<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8188\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8188\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8188 \" title=\"lafayette-in-semi-truck-accident-map\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/lafayette-in-semi-truck-accident-map.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/lafayette-in-semi-truck-accident-map.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/lafayette-in-semi-truck-accident-map-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/lafayette-in-semi-truck-accident-map-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8188\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map shows location of semi truck accident in Lafayette, IN on the northbound I-65 about one half mile north of Indiana Highway 26 on August 7, 2013.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The trucker was identified as 42 year-old Jeff Price, from Joshua, Texas, who was slightly injured in the accident. A passenger\u00a0 traveling in the sleeper at the time was also injured.<\/p>\n<p>The passenger was identified as 43 year-old Goree Lyn Carr, from Dallas, Texas, who suffered a shoulder injury and had to be transported to a nearby hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The refrigerated truck was contracted from CR England Trucking Company and was hauling food items for General Mills at the time of the accident.<\/p>\n<p>The incident remains under investigation at this time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\" target=\"_blank\">Truck Accident Lawyer News<\/a> is a truck accident and personal injury blog that publishes up to date truck accidents and truck legal news from across the United States. For more questions &amp; detailed information about Texas trucking laws, truck injury causes and victims rights, contact <a title=\"dallas texas truck accident attorneys\" href=\"\/Northeastern-Texas.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Texas truck accident attorneys<\/a>, Gordon, Elias &amp; Seely LLP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAFAYETTE, IN &#8211; A semi truck driver from Joshua, Texas rolled his big rig while averting a collision on Interstate 65 in Lafayette, IN. The city of Lafayette is located in Tippecanoe County in the northwestern part of the state about 60 miles northwest of Indianapolis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1389,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,5,13],"tags":[318,16],"class_list":["post-8181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indiana-truck-accidents","category-texas-truck-accidents","category-truck-accident-lawyers","tag-dallas-truck-accident-lawyer","tag-texas-truck-accident-lawyers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8181","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\/1389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8181"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8197,"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8181\/revisions\/8197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}