Personal Injury Law

Tractor Trailer Accidents In Georgia

Georgia injury lawyers know well the serious injuries and wrongful deaths people suffer as a result of motor vehicle accidents; however, perhaps the most catastrophic accident is one involving tractor trailers. Some of the reasons for trucking accidents being such horrible accidents are plain to see. The size and weight of the trucks and cargo have the capacity to do tremendous harm if they are driven recklessly, negligently or under dangerous conditions.

A couple of years ago we represented a young wrecker driver who was off on the grass on Interstate 75 in Georgia. He was there with the police trying to remove vehicle which had been involved in a prior collision. As he was loading one of the wrecked cars on his flatbed wrecker, he looked up to see a tractor trailer veering off the roadway and heading directly towards him. He ran up the embankment to try to avoid being hit and was run over by the truck. As a result he sustained vary serious injuries. As it turned out, the guy who was actually in control of the truck was just a guy who was accompanying the real truck driver. He did not have a commercial drivers license and was actually on disability because of a spinal cord injury that affected the use of his lower extremities!

Many truck accidents occur because the driver is without sufficient skills or training; driving faster than the speed limit or too fast for the conditions; driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol; driving without sufficient sleep/falsifying logbooks or failing to properly secure loads.

Tractor trailer accident victims often sustain very severe injuries and incur hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical bills, not to mention thousands in lost wages. In these cases, it important to retain legal counsel as soon as possible to investigate on your behalf and to retain competent accident reconstruction experts.

If you or a loved one has been injured in a accident or wreck involving a truck, call one of the experienced truck accident lawyers at Finch McCranie, LLP.

Full post as published by Georgia Injury Lawyer Blog on April 06, 2009 (boomark / email).