Many truck accident result in serious, even fatal injuries. However, even when a commercial truck accident only causes relatively minor injuries, the victims still face hardships as a result of these injuries. Just because a victim is not left with a permanent disability does not mean that they do not deserve to recover for their …
Truck Accident Facial Injuries
After a wreck, you might not know what to do about your car accident injuries. Facial injuries should be treated immediately and you should meet with a car accident lawyer in Atlanta about how to cover your medical bills for this kind of treatment. Truck accident statistics show that crashes involving a regular car and commercial vehicle can be much more …
How Trucking Companies Try to Avoid Responsibility
Different parties may be responsible for a commercial truck accident, including the driver, maintenance crew, cargo loading crew, truck manufacturer, or the parent trucking company. Often, these parties fight amongst themselves to point fingers and assign blame in an accident to other parties. Truck companies make an especially ardent effort to avoid liability, as their …
How Truck Accidents Can Cause Spine Injuries
Commercial truck accidents occur regularly on our country’s highways, and can often result in serious injury to the people involved. The most serious injuries tend to be the drivers and occupants of the passenger vehicles in the accidents, largely due to the sheer size and weight of most commercial trucks. Georgia law allows victims of …
Bad Weather and Truck Accidents
Adverse weather conditions may make driving more dangerous for any driver on the road, especially drivers of large semi-trucks. Weather may not only affect how a truck handles, brakes, or steers, but it may also affect the mindset of a truck driver. If a driver is either overly stressed or under concerned about weather conditions, his …
How Truck Accidents Lead to Brain Injuries
Truck accidents occur regularly on our nation’s highways, often resulting in serious injury and property damage. Truck accidents can occur for a variety of reasons, and when negligence is involved, victims can recover through a Georgia personal injury lawsuit. Many parties may be liable in a truck accident injury, including the truck driver, the truck …
When Stores Offer to Settle Slip and Falls
More than 2,000 slip and fall accidents took place in 2011 (a 12% increase from 2010), according to a report released by the National Insurance Crime Bureau. Although you have heard that slip and fall accidents are common, you have never experienced a same-level fall until now. You may have been getting your groceries on …
How Vehicle Malfunctions Cause Accidents
Every time you get behind a wheel of a car, you are trusting that the car will keep you safe. There are hundreds of different parts on a car that could malfunction at any time, causing an accident and injury to you and your passengers. When you drive, you are trusting that the seat belts, …
How Vehicle Ejections Cause Serious Injuries
Motor vehicle accidents can cause serious injury and even death. When a driver or a passenger is unrestrained, he or she may potentially be ejected from the vehicle. Vehicle ejections are responsible for some of the most serious injuries motorists and passengers can incur, and these injuries may even be fatal. The medical costs associated …
Highway Tractor Trailer Accident Kills Georgia Woman
After six years of steady declines the number of traffic fatalities increased in the first nine months of 2012. A report by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimated that 25,580 people died in auto accidents from January through September compared to 23,884 during the same period in 2011. Consulting a Clayton County attorney …
Freak Accident Kills Man Changing Tire
A report by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimated that 25,580 people died and many more were injured in 2012 auto accidents from January through September. Being prepared before an accident can enable a victim’s family to obtain all the necessary information that will be helpful in a wrongful death case. …
DUI Driver Sentenced to 20 Years for Fatal Crash
Drunk driving continues to be a devastating cause of fatal accidents, with statistics from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) showing an increase in DUI-related fatalities from 9,865 in 2011 to 10,322 in 2013. A significant percentage of these fatal accidents involved drivers with a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of 0.15 percent or higher—nearly …
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