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Trucking Accidents
Due simply to the size and weight difference, trucking accidents often cause serious or fatal injuries.
Large commercial vehicles weighing 80,000 pounds or more dominate the roadways and highways in North Atlanta, sharing the roads with much smaller passenger vehicles typically weighing around 3,000 pounds. As a result, truck wrecks are on the rise.
Trucking accidents deal with personal injury, catastrophic injury and wrongful death litigation resulting from collisions with commercial vehicles such as tractor-trailers, buses, dump trucks and similar vehicles. Federal regulations set minimum standards for the operation of commercial vehicles and require companies to conduct routine inspections and maintenance on these vehicles to protect the public. Unfortunately, truck companies and their drivers do not always adhere to these standards, which can lead to personal injuries and even death.
Common Causes of Georgia Truck Wrecks
There are numerous reasons that Georgia trucking crashes occur on the highways of Atlanta. These can include:
Drug use by big rig operators
Speeding or traveling too fast for conditions
Being unfamiliar with the roadway
Inadequate surveillance by operators
Fatigue and lack of rest by commercial drivers
Illegal maneuvers
Not paying appropriate attention or becoming distracted when driving
Underestimating actions that need to be taken to avoid a crash
Trucking companies overloading trucks
Companies failing to properly maintain trucks
Large trucks to not have the ability to maneuver or stop quickly in order to avoid colliding with another vehicle. Regardless of the reason for the wreck, you deserve to be properly compensated for your injuries. Conway Law can help to recover damages for your medical expenses, lost wages, physical and mental pain and suffering, and physical impairment.
What You Can Do
Because deadly Atlanta truck collisions occur every day, the trucker’s insurance company and attorneys know how to handle these cases to their own benefit. In fact, trucking companies will have a legal person involved to limit liability within hours of an accident. Hiring a Georgia personal injury attorney is key in attaining a favorable result in your truck crash case. You need an attorney who understands the federal and state trucking regulations and who will act quickly to preserve evidence from the accident scene, perform a full investigation into your case, obtain black box information from the tractor-trailer, and provide you with insightful information.
Case Results
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Female client rear-ended by a Ford F350 Commercial Vehicle towing a trailer on I-20. Our client suffered a permanent injury to her lower right leg that led to extensive treatment including physical therapy, injections, and a spinal cord stimulator trial.
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Female client was rear-ended by a Tractor-Trailer on I-285 in Sandy Springs, Fulton County, Georgia. As a result of the wreck, she suffered an aggravation to pre-existing neck issues that required a neck surgery. The Tractor-Trailer driver claimed he was pushed into our client by a large pickup truck. In depositions, the driver admitted even though his trailer-trailer weighted at least 70,000 pounds, he intended to stop only 2-3 feet behind our client’s Toyota Camry. The owner of the trucking company testified the driver should have stayed 200 feet behind our client’s Camry. The case settled shortly after depositions.
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When side-swiped by a Tractor-Trailer on I-20 in Newton County, Georgia, our client suffered a torn rotator cuff in her shoulder. She waited several years before she had arthroscopic shoulder surgery. We settled at mediation after taking the deposition of the surgeon who connected the surgery to the wreck.
Recent accident?
Before becoming a North Atlanta personal injury attorney, Chris Conway represented trucking companies and worked with their insurance adjusters. As a result, he understands truck crash cases from both sides of the litigation and will fight to obtain a favorable result in your case. Contact Conway Law today so that we can act quickly to preserve evidence in your case.
