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Once again a tractor trailer crash has shut down a section of Atlanta’a I-285 perimeter expressway, snarling rush hour traffic. At about 5 AM today, a tractor trailer crashed into the median barrier below the Ashford Dunwoody Road overpass. Injuries were reported, but no details about the cause of the crash or extent of injuries were in the early news reports. According to reports, the truck was carrying windshields, which were scattered all over the expressway.
See AJC,WSB,WXIA, and more AJC photos.
I don’t want to prejudge the cause of this crash, but we see an awful lot of incidents in which truckers drive all night, are weary when they hit Atlanta as morning rush hour is beginning, and bad stuff happens.

The Shigley Law Firm represents plaintiffs in wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases statewide in Georgia, and in other states subject to the multijurisdictional practice and pro hac vice rules in each state. Ken Shigley was designated as a “SuperLawyer” in Atlanta Magazine and one of the “Legal Elite” in Georgia Trend Magazine. He is a Certified Civil Trial Advocate of the National Board of Trial Advocacy, Chair of the Southeastern Motor Carrier Liability Institute and former chair of the Georgia Insurance Law Institute. He particularly focuses on cases arising from truck wrecks and accidents (tractor trailers truck wrecks, semi truck wrecks,18 wheeler truck wrecks, big rig truck wrecks, log truck wrecks, dump truck wrecks).