Because of the sheer size of these massive vehicles, truck accidents are some of the most devastating collisions on the road. While no one expects to be involved in one of these accidents, they are more common than you may initially believe. We gathered some recent...
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What Is My Trucking Accident Case Worth?
Big rigs and other commercial trucks are larger, heavier, and more dangerous than normal vehicles. This typically means that any collision between a truck and a normal vehicle will cause severe property damage and injuries. When a truck accident was caused by the...
Breaking Down Liability in Trucking Accidents
Truck accidents are easily the most harrowing accidents on the highways, regardless of the speed of the vehicle. All truck accidents create some level of damage for other involved parties, with many of those suffering serious or even fatal injuries. Following the...
How long does a semitruck need to stop? | The Law Offices of Tyler & Peery
You're sitting at a stoplight, staring at the car ahead of you, when you notice lights approaching in your rear-view mirror. You feel like they're getting closer far faster than they should be, and the vehicle is huge: An 80,000-pound semitruck. Then you hear the...
Don’t lose sight of why commercial truck accidents happen | The Law Offices of Tyler & Peery
Do you spend a lot of time on the highways in and around the San Antonio area? If so, you know that there are commercial trucks everywhere. Since there is no way of avoiding these vehicles, you need to do whatever it takes to enhance your safety. One of the best...
3 questions about trucking accidents | The Law Offices of Tyler & Peery
Trucking accidents often result in injuries and death. They can hurt truck drivers as well as the drivers and passengers of normal vehicles. In fact, the drivers and passengers inside normal vehicle will be severely disadvantaged in any kind of a collision with a big...
Self-driving commercial trucks could become the norm | The Law Offices of Tyler & Peery
If you think sleepy and distracted truck drivers are a problem, some computer engineers and automobile designers think they may have the solution: automated trucks that drive themselves. In fact, since last October, autonomously driven trucks have been delivering...
Safety recommendations for semitruck drivers | The Law Offices of Tyler & Peery
Most truck drivers have seen motor vehicle operators doing some very risky and idiotic things on the road. In some cases, this unwise maneuvers result in car versus semitruck collisions that cause catastrophic injuries -- or worse -- death. However, semitruck drivers...
Your first steps after suffering injury in a truck accident | The Law Offices of Tyler & Peery
Large trucks absolutely destroy other vehicles in a collision, leaving drivers and passengers dead or seriously injured. Any time that a person survives a collision with a large truck, they are very fortunate that the experience did not take their life. Of course, if...
Training standards for new truck drivers: Are they tough enough? | The Law Offices of Tyler & Peery
Large trucks weigh 20 or 30 times as much as passenger cars and that weight differential can be devastating in a crash. Large trucks are also much taller than smaller vehicles, posing the risk of underride accidents. How much and what type of training should drivers...
