Most of the fatalities that occur in collisions between trucks and smaller cars are passengers in the other vehicles. This makes sense because trucks outweigh the average motor vehicle by 20 to 30 times. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, 4,119 people lost their lives in collisions with large trucks in the U.S. in…
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How to Proceed After Being Injured in a Truck Accident In 2017, 450,000 truck accidents occurred on the roads in the United States with 4,237 of the accidents resulting in a death and 344,000 causing injuries. Studies have determined that most of these fatal collisions between trucks and other vehicles occur on highways, in rural…
