Truck Accidents

If you drive a passenger vehicle on the highway, getting tangled up in a collision with a large, commercial truck can end in disaster. Not only because they are so huge and vastly out-weigh passenger vehicles, but also because they ride so high on the road that in an accident, a passenger vehicle can slide…

Although it sounds like the stuff of science fiction films, self-driving trucks may be closer to a reality that you understand.  There are several companies which are testing self-driving trucks and those who are in favor of them say that autonomous trucks will be safer. Each year there are thousands of truck accidents where people…

Rollaway truck accidents just make you want to shake your head in frustration because they are preventable yet they cause such destruction and injury. Failing those that are caused by a mechanical defect, truck rollaways are usually caused when the driver gets out of the truck and fails to pull the parking brake. If the…

WSIL 3 reported on April 2 that the driver of a 2015 Volvo truck tractor struck and killed the driver of a 2015 Toyota Camry. The driver of the truck tractor was a 24-year old male, and the driver of the Camry was a 29-year old female. The accident happened on I-57 at milepost 67.…

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is the federal agency that provides guidelines and regulations for commercial truck drivers and commercial truck companies. Not every truck is a commercial truck, but large tractor-trailers, semis, and 18-wheelers qualify. Commercial trucks are a danger to other drivers, the truck driver, and to traffic conditions because of…

When you’ve been in a truck accident with a commercial vehicle, you should take care to understand that this industry is pervasively regulated. When there is a truck accident involving a commercial vehicle, it is treated as an equipment failure. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations are the governing body of commercial trucks and have…

Beloved comedian Tracy Morgan was hit a few years ago by a commercial Wal-Mart truck and suffered terrible brain injuries from which he is still recovering. In August 2015, the National Transportation Safety Board determined that the driver’s fatigue was one of the leading causes of this accident, which also killed fellow comedian James McNair.…

Commercial trucks are required to have a number of safety features, but that doesn’t mean that those features can’t fail to do their jobs. Truck crashes and collisions can be really dangerous no matter where they occur, but they’re especially dangerous on the streets of big, busy cities such as Chicago. Whether tractor-trailers are rumbling…

On April 13, a collision between a garbage truck and a passenger vehicle left two injured and one man dead at the scene. A Republic Services garbage truck attempted to make an illegal left turn when a speeding vehicle driven by Giovanni Roman, 24, struck the passenger side of the truck. Roman was pinned in…

If it is not already intimidating enough to drive alongside an 18-wheeler commercial truck on the highway, just image that the driver of that 90,000-pound vehicle is impaired by drugs? The findings of a study originally published in Occupational and Environmental Medicine on the common use of booze and drugs among truck drivers was described…