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Semi truck accidents tend to have catastrophic consequences for their victims. With truck drivers under strict deadlines and companies attempting to maximize profits, regulations are often ignored, resulting in heavier loads and trucks driving at excessive speeds. This is a fatal combination with the victims often being innocent civilians.
Semi Truck Accident Fatalities
Truck accidents result in an estimated 4,300 fatalities each year. Sadly, the majority of fatalities are drivers of standard automobiles. Fatigued truck drivers travelling too fast are a dangerous road hazard to passenger vehicles with must less weight and size to protect them from massive semi-trucks barreling down the highway.
Federal and State Trucking Regulations
Numerous regulations exist in order to protect civilians from sustaining personal injuries due to a trucking accident. Unfortunately, many companies and truck drivers knowingly ignore these laws, increasing the probability of a fatal truck accident occurring. Regulations that attempt to minimize the number of semi truck accidents include:
- Maintaining a driving log and limiting the amount of time each day a driver is allowed to operate his vehicle
- Making regular vehicle weighing stops
- Cargo weight restrictions
- Speed limit restrictions
Causes of Semi Truck Accidents
One of the most common reasons for semi truck accidents is a truck driver or company’s neglect of federal and state regulations. By blatantly ignoring legal regulations, it is more difficult for overweight trucks to stop on demand and an increased probability to jack-knife exists, maximizing the potential for a fatality.
Even when road rules are obeyed, semi truck accidents occur frequently and can be attributed to:
- A vehicle sliding beneath the truck
- Driver fatigue, resulting in a center line crossover and a head-on collision
- Inability to stop
- Trucks moving too slowly and causing a rear-end accident
Semi Truck Accident Compensation
The consequences of a semi truck accident are extensive. Compensation you may be entitled to reflects this and includes:
- Loss of wages
- Related medical expenses
- Loss of companionship and funeral expenses, if a wrongful death occurred
- Car repairs and/or replacement
- Emotional and physical suffering
- Diminished earning capacity
- Permanent scarring
Free Interview – No Fee Until Settlement or Recovery
Trucking companies and their insurers will send agents to the accident site in an attempt to coerce you into a statement that may minimize compensation. It is essential that you never give a statement that may restrict the compensation you are entitled to.
Indiana semi truck accident attorney, Richard Truitt, understands your family’s needs and demands. If you or a loved one has been involved in a truck accident in the Fort Wayne, Indiana area, please contact our traffic accident office online or call us at 800-628-2904 to schedule your free interview. Truitt Law Offices operates on a contingency basis, meaning we do not get paid unless you do. Make your first call your only call.
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