If you or a loved one were injured in an accident involving a truck, a truck accident lawyer or attorney may be able to help you recover compensation from a truck injury lawsuit or settlement.
A team of truck accident attorneys and personal injury lawyers is investigating potential personal injury lawsuit cases and settlement claims of individuals and families who have suffered serious personal injury or death as a result of a truck or trucking driving accident.
Each year tens of thousands of people (including drivers, passengers, pedestrians and bicyclists) are injured in truck accidents, collisions and crashes. Many of those truck accidents are fatal, resulting in death.
Unfortunately, for instance, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, in 2020, there were 108,000 injury crashes in the United States involving large trucks or buses and 4,588 fatal crashes involving large trucks or buses.
Truck Accident Attorneys & Truck Accident Lawyers
Truck accident attorneys and truck accident lawyers are potentially investigating truck accident lawsuit cases and settlement claims of those who have been injured in an accident involving a truck, including among others, the following types of truck accidents:
- Truck accident
- Truck crash
- Truck jack knifing accident
- Truck underride accident
- Truck rear end or rear impact
- Wide turn trucking accident
- Left turn or u-turn truck accidents
- Truck side impact collision or T-bone
- Side swipe or blind spot truck accident
- Head on truck collision
- Backing up truck accidents
- Truck rollover
- Truck runoff
- Truck tire blow outs
- Falling truck cargo or lost cargo load accidents
- Stopped truck accident
- Toll booth trucking accidents
- Other types of truck accidents
Truck Injury Lawyers and Attorneys
Truck injury lawyers and truck injury attorneys are potentially investigating truck injury claims of those who have suffered severe injury after being involved in a truck accident, including, among others, the following type of truck accident injuries:
- Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
- Head injury or head trauma
- Spinal cord injury
- Back injury
- Neck injury
- Severed limbs or loss of body parts
- Paralysis
- Quadriplegia
- Paraplegia
- Other catastrophic injury
- Burns
- Internal organ damage
- Disfigurement and scars
- Broken bones & fractures
- Loss of motor function
- Neurological damage
- Nerve damage
- Concussion
- Coma or unconsciousness
- Wrongful death
- Other truck accident injury claims
Types of Trucks Involved In Truck Accident Cases
Truck crash lawyers and truck wreck attorneys are potentially investigating truck accident lawsuit cases and settlement claims involving the following types of truck, among others:
- Semi truck accident
- Eighteen 18 wheeler truck accident
- Tractor trailer accident
- Semi-trailer truck accident
- Large freight carrier truck accident
- Moving truck accident
- Commercial truck accident
- Garbage truck accident
- Dump truck accident
- Concrete transport cement mixer truck accident
- Ballast tractor accident
- Heavy hauler truck accident
- Big rig accident
- Other types truck accident cases
Truck accidents can be extremely dangerous due to the size and weight of trucks, which can range from around 6,000 lbs or less to 14,000 lbs for light trucks (i.e., Class 1 pickups, Class 2 cargo vans, step vans and full-sized pickups, Class 3 walk-in, box trucks and heavy duty pickups), from 14,001 lbs to 26,000 lbs for medium trucks (i.e., Class 4 large walk-ins, box and heavy duty pickup, Class 5 bucket trucks and large walk-ins and Class 6 beverage trucks, single axle, school buses, rack trucks) and from 26,001 lbs to 80,000 lbs for heavy-duty trucks (i.e., Class 7 three axle or more, truck tractor, transit bus, street sweepers, garbage trucks, furniture trucks and small semi trucks and Class 8 cement trucks, dump trucks, sleeper cabs and big rig 18-wheelers).
Semi-trucks (without a trailer) can weigh between 10,000 to 25,000 pounds. When hooked up to an empty tractor trailer, a semi-trucks weigh about 35,000 lbs on average and when carrying a load a semi with a trailor can weigh about 50,000 pounds on average. The average car, on the other hand, weighs only about 3,300 lbs. When a truck collides with a car, that difference can result in catastrophic injury or death.
Truck Driver Negligence
Truck accidents can occur due to truck driver negligence including:
- Truck driver fatigue
- Truck driver sleeping at the wheel
- Trucker speeding or driving too fast
- Trucker impaired by drugs or alcohol
- Truck driver driving under the influence (DUI)
- Truck driver driving while intoxicated (DWI)
- Truck driver distracted
- Truck driver failed to follow rules of the road
- Trucker failed to obey traffic signals and signs
- Trucker ran a red light or blew a stop sign
- Trucker changed lanes too frequently or in an unsafe manner
- Trucker illegally passed vehicles
- Truck driver made improper turns or u-turns
- Trucker driving recklessly or carelessly
- Trucker failed to yield right of way
- Truck driver swerved lanes
- Trucker was tailgating or driving too closely to other vehicles
- Truck driver improperly adjusted brakes
- Trucker downshifted or turned too quickly
- Truck driver being unfamiliar with roadway
- Trucker driving a poorly maintained truck
- Trucker driving poorly loaded cargo
- Other truck driver negligence claims
According to a Federal Motor Carrier Safety Commission study, 87% of large truck crashes were due to driver error including because (1) the driver fell asleep or was fatigued, was disabled by a heart attack or seizure, was physically impaired for another reason (such as prescription drug use, over-the-counter drug use, etc.), (2) the driver was inattentive, was distracted by something inside or outside the vehicle, or failed to observe the situation adequately for some other reason (such as being unfamiliar with the roadway), (3) the driver was driving too fast for conditions, misjudged the speed of other vehicles, or followed other vehicles too closely; and/or (4) the driver panicked, overcompensated, or exercised poor directional control.
The FMCSC study found that 10% of large truck crashes were due to vehicle failure (brake failure, etc.), while only 3% were due to environmental conditions (i.e., roadway or weather).
If you or a loved one were injured or died in a truck accident, contact a truck accident lawyer or attorney to request a free case review to see if you may be eligible to recover compensation from a personal injury lawsuit case or settlement claim.
*If you or a loved one are experiencing health issues, injuries or complications after being involved in a truck accident, we urge you to promptly consult with your doctor or physician for an evaluation.
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