Rising Crash Rates Call for Greater Caution Recent accident statistics show that there tend to be a lot of serious auto collisions and truck accidents in New Jersey. Although the South Brunswick township usually averages three or four fatal crashes per year, there were three within one month in the summer of 2019. Local motorists…
Why Truck Accidents Happen on U.S. Roads When truck crashes happen, 27% of the vehicles were determined to have had brake issues. Another 19% of the causes of trucking accidents include someone who was not familiar with the area in which he or she was driving. When taking these statistics into account, it isn’t surprising…
Semi-Trailers Pose Multiple Crash Dangers According to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, there was a 9% increase in fatal large truck crashes between 2016 and 2017. The 2017 total of 4,889 fatal bus, large truck and semi-trailer accidents was a 42% increase from the decade low in 2009. With the rising rate of truck…
Collisions Between Trucks and Cars Can Result in Serious Injuries The number of truck accident injuries has gone up and down over the years. In the past few years, however, they have been increasing. Truck crashes went up by 82% between 2009 to 2015, and they increased another 4% from 2016 to 2017. Common Truck…
The Importance of a Proper Truck Accident Investigation Over 4,600 large trucks were involved in accidents that included fatalities in 2017. Some victims of commercial trucking accidents in New Jersey think that recovering damages for their losses will be relatively straightforward; it often feels like determining fault should be simple and obvious. However, these types…
Better Enforcement Measures Could Make Roads Safer From Truck Accidents Recently, Delaware added an enforcement measure that allows some large trucks to be ticketed with the use of cameras on restricted roads; this comes just after federal regulators suggested relaxing daily driving limits for truckers, and many safety organizations are looking for ways to offset…
Who’s Liable in a New Jersey Commercial Truck Crash? Most commercial trucks are roughly 20 to 30 times heavier than passenger vehicles. This size difference can lead to some pretty serious and complicated roadway accidents that may involve multiple at-fault parties. Identifying all of the parties that contributed to an accident is important so that…
Driver Misclassification and Legal Cases The California Labor Commissioner awarded almost $6 million to a group of truck drivers working at the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports. In similar cases, at least $45 million in damages is still owed to misclassified drivers, according to the California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement. Misclassification of truck…
Hold the Person Who Caused Your Truck Accident Responsible Every year, thousands of people die in truck accidents. About 98% of these accidents result in the death of someone in the other vehicle. Roughly 15.5 million trucks are operating on U.S. highways and roads today, so you could be involved in a collision with a…
