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Trucking Accident Investigations – Understanding Their Role in Your Case

Trucking accidents are often devastating to victims and their families. Many must undergo extensive medical treatment, will miss a lot of time at work, or may even find themselves permanently disabled. In these situations, victims may be owed compensation. Unfortunately, obtaining it is not always easy. Victims must bear the burden of proof. Further, they may need to pin down exactly who caused the accident – was it the trucker, [...]

admin2017-04-25T09:10:00+00:00April 25, 2017|Truck Accidents|

Driverless Trucks May Soon Become Reality – Understanding How the Technology Could Impact Other Road Users

Of all the accidents that a road user can experience, those involving semi trucks tend to be the most devastating. In fact, only a small percentage of semi truck accident victims survive the accident, and those that do often experience long-term or lifelong disability. This can be costly for the trucking industry and the government, but the true burden rests with victims who have lost their quality of life. Technology [...]

admin2017-03-09T09:25:00+00:00March 9, 2017|Truck Accidents|

Truck Drivers and Employers Continue to Buck Against the ELD Mandate – What it May Say About the Drivers and Trucks Already on the Road

In 2014, police reported more than 400, 000 large truck accidents to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA). In those crashes, almost 3, 500 road users were killed. Another 82, 000 suffered non-fatal injuries - some of which were serious and life-altering. To combat this concerning number of injuries and deaths, the FMCSA has implemented a law that requires all trucks be monitored with an electronic logging device, or [...]

admin2017-01-27T09:41:00+00:00January 27, 2017|Truck Accidents|

Accident injuries result from head-on crash

When driving in Outagamie County, one of the last things that drivers expect to happen is to be involved in a crash. Auto accidents happen frequently and often result in accident injuries. This can be for a variety of reasons including a reckless driver, a drunk driver or simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time. It's a fact of life that car accidents happen and they can cause injuries [...]

admin2014-06-27T14:05:58+00:00June 27, 2014|Car Accidents|

Truck crash sends woman to hospital in critical condition

In Appleton, drivers need to be aware of large trucks on the road. These vehicles are heavy and often there is the possibility of driver fatigue affecting the safety with which it is operated. Given the heft, the stops and starts and the amount of time commercial vehicles spend on the road, accident are inevitable. When they do, , sometimes people are seriously injured. In others, there are fatal truck accidents. A [...]

admin2014-06-25T17:47:36+00:00June 25, 2014|Truck Accidents|