Truck accidents resulting in loss of lives
Did you know that a person killed or injured in a truck accident every 16 minutes? Big Rig truck accidents continue to increase. Even with these frightening scenarios and statistics, powerful lobby groups in the trucking industry continue to call for the weakening of the rules for truck safety and regulations in order to obtain a higher profit. Approximately 98% of these deaths occur to people in passenger vehicles. When truck collisions occur, trucking companies involved in the accident often send representatives to the scene to deal with accident victims immediately after the event when they are most vulnerable. These agents work to handle everything at the scene of the accident so they can limit or mitigate the responsibility of the company. Read more »
Truck Accidents Resulting in Loss of Lives II
The most common factor in collisions with large trucks and passenger vehicles is ignorance of car drivers performance limitations of a truck including visibility, breaking and limits associated with acceleration. Some common unsafe acts committed by car drivers in the vicinity of large trucks include: Driving No. Zones are areas beside and behind a commercial truck, where the truck driver has limited or no visibility, changing lanes abruptly in front of a truck to maneuver to the right of a truck that is making a right turn, misjudging the speed of a truck at an intersection approach, and turning left in front of the truck, fusion inappropriate in traffic, causing a truck to maneuver or stop quickly, lack of speed or slow down when a truck begins to merge or change lanes, unsafe passing, especially when enough time passes, we pass a truck and after being pulled out of position by a cross wind or turbulence of air entering the speeding traffic without enough of the road in front of a truck driving between large trucks, a vehicle leaving the travel lane, or inability to obtain a disabled vehicle completely off the road and over the shoulder. Read more »
Accident Attorneys | Aaron Ehasz, 6 May 10 | 
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