The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) issued the final statistics for 2019. Amid the numbers was the stubborn fact that there was no decline in truck-crash-related fatalities – the number went from 5,006 in 2018 to 5,005 in 2019. The trucks for...
Technology has become the final frontier with cars and trucks. As manufacturers and researchers push toward mass-producing self-driving vehicles. One outgrowth of that emerging technology is that some new safety equipment can already help human drivers operate their...
When you encounter a truck on a highway or a city thoroughfare, you must approach it with care. While trucks move slower than most passenger vehicles, they also take longer to stop. Trucks’ large turning radii and multiple blind spots can further imperil drivers if...
One look will tell you why an accident involving a truck would be worse than one with a car. Trucks are bigger. If a car accident is like getting into a fight with the neighborhood bully, a truck accident is like getting into a fight with an MMA heavyweight. If you...
If there’s one thing trucking company executives and their insurance companies fear, it’s likely the “nuclear verdict.” A nuclear verdict is a massive judgment of $10 million or more, awarded to the victim or victims of a truck accident. The problems with nuclear...
There’s no question that truck accidents can be utterly devastating. The weight and size that commercial trucks bring into accidents make them far deadlier than your standard car or SUV. For this reason, truck accidents often make the news headlines, and it might be...
Ask anyone in the transportation industry, and you’ll hear that self-driving vehicles are a matter of “when,” not “if.” It’s likely that you’ve heard about the work that Tesla and other manufacturers have done to create self-driving passenger cars. But there’s as much...
If you ever get into an accident with a large truck, you should probably count yourself fortunate to survive. You may not feel fortunate, but trucks are far more lethal than smaller cars and SUVs thanks to their size. So, simply surviving is a win, even though you’ll...
Most car crashes are preventable. This means the victims and their families may well have reason to ask why they were forced to suffer. They have good reason to wonder if the other driver couldn’t have been more responsible, especially when the other driver is a...
At some point, you may have been driving down the highway and noticed a large semi-truck barreling toward you in your rearview mirror. Perhaps you were startled by how quickly it was approaching, especially if you were speeding yourself. But did you worry about its...
