Throughout the school year, students across the country travel for sporting events. Their parents anticipate their safe return home at the end of every event. For the parents of one boys track team here in Texas, a near head-on collision shattered that expectation. The parents of the 18 students injured in the crash have the […]
Tag Archives: Truck accidents
Recently, we’ve been looking at the topic of drowsy or fatigued driving and its effects on motor vehicle safety. As we’ve noted, researchers have compared the impairment caused by fatigue to impairment caused by alcohol, and the consequences of this impairment are potentially very serious for commercial vehicle drivers given the size and weight of […]
As a follow up on our recent post about driver fatigue, we look at rules designed to prevent it. Truck driving is a job that requires long hours and pressure to be on time. Maneuvering a large rig down busy city streets or a crowded highway is no easy task. Being sleepy on the job […]
All of our readers have probably, at some point, experienced drowsiness or fatigue while driving. Those who have experienced significant fatigue behind the wheel know that it is a very dangerous state in which to drive, and that it can quickly and easily lead to serious motor vehicle accidents. The impact of fatigue on driving […]
The weight differential between big rigs and passenger vehicles is an obvious cause of serious injuries and death in these cases. Why our state leads the nation in fatal trucking accidents is more nuanced. Recently, a jury decided that surviving family members of a young truck-accident victim deserved many millions of dollars in damages. The […]
Anyone who spends any amount of time on the roads and highways of Bexar County knows that semitrailer trucks are commonly encountered there. Fortunately, the vast majority of truck drivers are responsible professionals who exercise the appropriate amount of caution while driving. There are a few bad apples out there, however, and a recent accident […]
As Bexar County residents might well imagine, truck accidents can inflict serious injury and death on victims. The federal government has compiled some statistics showing the terrible toll that truck accidents take on the nation’s drivers and passengers each year. Below is a quick summary of some of the government’s findings. In 2014, the most […]
Truck accidents have the ability to cause serious injuries and harm to truck accident victims. A couple has brought a claim, following a truck accident, in Texas against a truck driver and the truck driver’s employer for negligence. The couple asserts in their lawsuit that they suffered injuries in the truck accident between their vehicle […]
There is little debate about the fact that trucking is essential to maintaining the American way of life. We rely on trucks to transport nearly everything we eat and most of the consumer products we buy. Unfortunately, we pay a steep price for our reliance on trucks. For much of the last century, truck accidents […]
Semi truck drivers and the transportation companies that employ them are held to a higher standard of care and must to adhere to a lot of different rules and regulations. The consequences of a big rig smashing into a compact car are far greater than a compact car crashing into another small vehicle — so […]