Despite improvements in the rate of highway fatalities overall, trucking fatalities are at their highest point in 30 years. These crashes took the lives of nearly 5,000 people in 2018. People who survive an accident involving a large truck often sustain catastrophic injuries. A California truck accident attorney
Category: Truck Accident
Catastrophic Semi-Truck Injury? We Will Fight for You
California is a big state with many highways and a bustling commercial road transit sector. This means that there are a significant amount of 18-wheelers, or semi-trucks, on the road in the state every day. These are heavy trucks, and when you are involved in an accident with one of them the result is...
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5 Ways Car Drivers Can Reduce California Truck Accidents
What can car drivers do to decrease truck accidents?
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Statistics show that of the 8.9 million people in America who are employed in "truck related jobs" approximately 3.5 million of them are truck drivers. And those truck drivers are "logging over 288 billion miles a year."
That...
Uber’s Driverless Truck Unit Is Under Government Investigation Following Unapproved Tests
Who Is Liable When a Driverless Truck Injures Others?
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Just as driverless cars are expected to revolutionize day-to-day errands and commutes, driverless trucks are expected to revolutionize the shipping and commercial trucking industries. However, the arrival of driverless trucking may have faced a setback, not from a driverless
Trucker Fatigue Caused 2015 Metrolink Crash
What are the leading causes of truck accidents in California?
In February 2015, a truck en route to Oxnard, California from Arizona made a wrong turn onto the railroad tracks where it was struck by a Los Angeles bound Metrolink commuter train. The wreck killed the engineer and also injured 32 passengers and train crew...
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When Trucks Collide with Buses
What steps are being taken to enhance bus safety regulations in California?
In 2014, a tractor trailer crossed over a median on Interstate 5 near Oakland and crashed into a charter bus that was carrying students on a trip to a Northern California college. Five of the students were killed along with three chaperones. Both...
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