Truck Accidents

Truck accident cases differ from other motor vehicle accidents because of their size and weight. Aside from this, truck drivers have difficulty seeing the vehicles close to them, making it harder to stop when the need arises. Fatigue, poor loading practices, and overload trucks are the most common causes of truck accidents. Dealing with the […]

Just think how big is the trucking industry in the U.S. where everything involves logistics as products come inside and outside the country which are transported by land mainly by trucks. In fact, trucking companies, warehouses, and private sectors in the U.S. employs more than 8.9 million people in trucking-related jobs and almost half of them (3.5 million) were truck drivers. In addition, an association concerned to trucking and trucks statistics estimates that there are more than 15 million trucks operate in the U.S. which is a significant figure that made up majority of vehicles running and using american roads.

In most car crashes scenes we all have witnessed, the most damaged and sustained the most injuries are considered and viewed as the victim and crosses out the possibility that they have been a factor for an accident to happen. But, some accidents do occur because of the addition of the fact that the victim’s party were also partially negligent at that point, either it was mechanical error or human error, it could be charge to them upon discovery but being at the same time, victims should be cautious when admitting that they do so as it may affect their case and should be address in proper and accordingly as other party’s insurer may use the confession against you even though the fault doesn’t cause the accident in general and may put your case in peril.

In cities, where all types of things move so fast that no one could notice that it has moved from place to another. Cars in busy roads and even not so busy roads are a lot and may cause multiple events, either bad or good outcomes. Even with the smallest detail in a road could cause an accident, this doesn’t excuse a manhole. A manhole could potentially be a risk and a presence of hazard along road when goes crooked and may obstruct a car or may be ran over by a car and may cause a form of car accident. Manhole can become loose due to heavy cars’ vibration while they pass the road and they are usually left unchecked oftentimes as they are given less attention as they are just covers to be frank.

Since 2019, the number of truck-related fatalities has significantly increased from 2009 by 31% as it places at 4,119. In relation to this, years back then there were truck regulations that were established by the federal state for the general commercial trucking industry safety and protection of its workers in the purpose of minimizing deaths and injuries as well as accidents in general.

There are forms of accidents happen all over the streets of U.S. that involves many types of vehicle such as sedans, pick-ups, bus and other public utility vehicles, and private and corporate vehicles made for specific purpose. The damage done by different type of vehicle do as well vary from each other too due to their form, acceleration, and their ability to do collateral damage.

The frequency of road accident involving pedestrian is concerningly high, its fatality rate is increasing over the years as in the early years around 2017, 5,977 pedestrians have died in pedestrian-related traffic crashes in U.S. in that year alone, that is estimatedly one death in every more than 1 hour and 137,000 pedestrians have sustained significant injuries in the same form of road accident in the same year.

Cases for trucks and semi-truck crashes, factors involved that make these specific cases of car accidents take up to six months to be settled is that this form of accident deals and results in bones and soft tissue damages as minimum damage sustained by the victims and people involved that tend to heal longer than other accident sustenance of damages, despite these “drawbacks”, the compensation value is significantly higher compared to other car accidents as medical bills and lsot wage during the recovery process are likely to be high. With this given, victim should file and submit their evidences of these expentidures to strengthen their claim.

Driving on road fast paced entails an either minor or major road crash that could result in sustenance of injuries. These injuries can be identified as external injuries including lacerations, bruises and road rashes and internal injuries which includes broken bones and internal bleedings in pivotal parts in either brain or in important organs that many people has been suffering since then as since 2016, over 3 million people were injured due to involvement in road accidents and crashes according to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).

You are involved in an accident and is pretty sure that you have no involvement for such occurrence and wanting to file an injury claim against the person at-fault, but then you have recently know that after his long fight for his life in time of his hospitalization, he died. Now, you are perplexed as it seemed to be complex process for filing a claim against a dead person and end up browsing online legal consultation and asking yourself what to do?