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Injury Due to a Truck Accident

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  • A traf­fic acci­dent involv­ing a com­mer­cial truck, such as an eigh­teen-wheel­er or oth­er large freight car­ri­er, can be much more cat­a­stroph­ic than an ordi­nary car accident.
  • While sta­tis­tics show that truck dri­vers are gen­er­al­ly much more care­ful on the road than auto­mo­bile dri­vers, and thank­ful­ly the inci­dence of fatal crash­es involv­ing trucks and oth­er large vehi­cles has declined in recent years, large truck crash­es still account­ed for 5,350 fatal­i­ties and 133,000 injuries in 2001.
  • A per­son injured in a com­mer­cial truck acci­dent must show that: Defen­dant (dri­ver, truck­ing com­pa­ny, or oth­er par­ty) owed the plain­tiff the duty to exer­cise a rea­son­able degree of care to avoid injury, under the cir­cum­stances. s fail­ure to exer­cise rea­son­able care was the cause of injury suf­fered by plaintiff.
  • Dam­ages: If you are involved in an acci­dent where a com­mer­cial truck dri­ver was at fault, you may be enti­tled to receive legal com­pen­sa­tion for any phys­i­cal, emo­tion­al and finan­cial loss­es that result­ed from the accident.
  • Spe­cial Con­sid­er­a­tions In Truck Acci­dent Cas­es: The oper­a­tion of large com­mer­cial trucks on high­ways and roads presents cer­tain unique dan­gers that are not a con­sid­er­a­tion where ordi­nary pas­sen­ger vehi­cles are con­cerned: Jack­knif­ing — Large big-rig vehi­cles such as eigh­teen-wheel­ers are prone to jack­knif­ing under cer­tain con­di­tions, espe­cial­ly dur­ing sud­den brak­ing and turning.
  • Get­ting Legal Help After a Com­mer­cial Truck Acci­dent: Any traf­fic acci­dent involv­ing a com­mer­cial truck is like­ly to result in seri­ous phys­i­cal injury and prop­er­ty damage.

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