Tractor-trailer Collisions

Trucking Collisions share many of the same characteristics of a typical motor vehicle collision, and yet, they have many additional nuances that require an experienced attorney at the helm.  Over the road truckers are subject to federal restrictions on their drive time.  In reality, these regulations are often ignored, which leads to drowsy, inattentive drivers with 80,000 pounds of truck and cargo barreling down on unsuspecting victims.

Trucking collisions are especially dangerous because of the amount of force they exert when they strike a vehicle.  Injuries are often catastrophic or fatal.  Entire families can be wiped out by one drowsy truck driver who dozes off at the wheel.  When trucking accidents happen it is important that they are fully investigated.  What GPS tracking devices are on the truck?  What readings can be preserved from the black box?  What do the driver log books say?  If the truck was racing to make a deadline, why was he late?  Was there a shift in the load that caused the truck driver to lose control?  If so, who loaded it?  Was the truck overweight?

These are all very important questions that must be answered to determine why the accident happened, and whether anyone outside of the truck driver may be jointly responsible for the accident.  The attorneys at Adeszko Abate & Green have extensive experience investigating and prosecuting these claims, recovering over eight figures in settlements and awards for their clients injured in trucking accidents.