Semi truck accidents need a legal response
Obviously, a single car can cause great damage on our roads. But how much more damage can a semi truck, 18 wheeler, big rig or tractor trailer cause?
Lots more. Just take a look at Urbana, Ohio, where a semi truck rammed into a row of cars which had rightly stopped for a school bus which was letting off young passengers.
As is often the case in a semi truck accident, the large truck’s driver was not injured. Probably not even a scratch. But as is also the case so often, the innocent drivers and passengers of the cars struck by the big truck most definitely were injured.
In this case, five persons in the cars had to be hospitalized, and one of them — who was in the first car hit by the semi — is in serious condition. Fortunately, the school bus at the other end of the line was not hit and no children were hurt.
The semi truck driver, by the way, was cited by the Ohio State Highway Patrol. See you in court.
Why the 18 wheeler driver failed to stop isn’t clear. In many cases, semi truck drivers are distracted or inattentive while talking or texting. Or perhaps they’re under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Or perhaps they’re fatigued by working longer hours than allowed. Or perhaps they’re speeding and don’t leave enough room to stop, failing to keep in mind that it takes far longer to brake a monstrous truck than to a halt a smaller car.
Whatever the cause, such accidents have become all too familiar on the USA’s roads and highways, where the barreling behemoths known as 18 wheelers, tractor trailers, big rigs or semi trucks are killing and injuring many thousands of Americans.
Now the trucking industry wants permission to make its trucks even larger and heavier — and thus more dangerous. If trucking companies get their way, still more accidents will happen.
It’s time to fight back. If you or a family member has been harmed by a semi truck in a large truck accident, engage a skilled 18 wheeler accident lawyer or semi truck accident attorney via USA-LegalHelpCenter.com.
We can provide you with legal assistance from Texas to Michigan, from California to New York — indeed, in all 50 states. And in doing so we can help put a stop to the growing carnage caused by tractor trailer tragedies and other big rig accidents.
Fill out the free case review form on this page, and let us drive home the point that such slaughters will not stand. Large trucks may be the biggest vehicles on the USA’s roads, but USA laws are even bigger than them.
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