Trucking Accidents

Large Truck Accidents and Personal Injury in TX, AR, LA, and the U.S.

Accidents involving large trucks are among the most serious and most deadly in the United States.  The force of a truck accident is extremely difficult to escape and, even if the victim lives, the car almost never makes it. 

The attorneys at Sloan, Bagley, Hatcher & Perry recognize that handling these cases requires a thorough understanding of commercial vehicle regulations on both the federal and state level.

Trucking Laws Impact Personal Injury Cases

Trucking companies are required to follow Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations concerning their equipment and their drivers’ hours of service. Driver fatigue is a common problem, though, and hours-of-service regulations are routinely violated. Careful examination of records after an accident often shows serious and even fraudulent violations of safety regulations.

Trucking companies are only required to maintain many of these types of records for six months, though.  If we cannot obtain these records before they are destroyed, the injured person or survivors of a person killed in a truck wreck has a much more difficult time proving the trucking company’s negligence.

Damage & Injury Caused by Commercial Trucks

In 2005, large trucks accounted for 8 percent of all vehicles involved in fatal crashes and 4 percent of all vehicles involved in injury and property-damage-only crashes.

Large trucks were much more likely to be involved in a fatal, multiple-vehicle crash—as opposed to a fatal, single-vehicle crash—than were passenger vehicles.  Most of the fatal crashes involving large trucks occurred in rural areas (61%), during the daytime (67%), and on weekdays (81%).

If you or a loved one were in a trucking accident, it is essential that you involve an attorney immediately, because of the timing involved with record keeping by the truck companies.  Fill out our Free Case Review to tell us about your accident.

The initial consultation with us is free of charge, and if we agree to accept your case, we work on a contingent fee basis, which means we get paid for our services only if there is a monetary award or recovery of funds.

Don’t delay! You may have a valid claim and be entitled to compensation for your injuries, but a lawsuit must be filed before the statute of limitations expires.

Call 1 903 757-7000 about injuries caused by trucking accidents.