Yadkin County, NC — March 25, 2025, one person was injured following a dual 18-wheeler accident at around 3:30 p.m. along Interstate 77.
According to preliminary details from the North Carolina State Highway Patrol, the incident happened near the I-77 and U.S. Highway 421 interchange.
Current statements say the crash happened after a southbound 18-wheeler experienced a tire blowout. As a result, the truck careened across the median into northbound lanes. There, it crashed with an oncoming 18-wheeler.
Due to the crash, the driver of the northbound truck had non-life-threatening injuries. No other injuries were reported. Right now, no further information is available.
Commentary by Attorney Michael Grossman
With tire blowouts, people are sometimes too quick to just write everything off as unavoidable. That could be true, since there are times something in the road punctures the tire. That’s not really something a driver can foresee. However, it’s important that experienced and well-equipped investigators analyze the tire to find out if the blowout was the result of something preventable. Let me explain.
One common reason tires blow out is lack of maintenance. I’ve handled hundreds of commercial vehicle accident cases, and there are plenty of companies out there willing to neglect routine maintenance work just to cut costs. They kick that can down the road and hope for the best, but that just makes a serious accident inevitable.
Alternatively, there are times that a manufacturing issue leads to a blow out. If a manufacturer sells a shoddy product, and there’s a catastrophic failure due to poor build quality, for example, then that’s something the manufacturer needs to be held accountable for.
Distinguishing between these different possible causes can take state-of-the-art tools and specialized training authorities don’t always have access to. If authorities here haven’t taken steps to preserve the physical evidence and get it in the hands of investigators who can reconstruct the tire, they may be missing crucial details.
