Truck Accidents
Dallas trucking accident lawyers / Attorneys Eberstein & Witherite, LLP
Each year scores of motorists are killed or injured in motor vehicle collisions with tractor trailers, 18 wheelers, semis, and other big rigs. In 2005, nationwide there were 442,000 crashes involving large trucks with a gross vehicle weight rating greater than 10,000 pounds. These crashes cost 5,212 people their lives, and 114,000 others were left in pain, disfigured, or scarred. Largely due to the difference in vehicle size, the occupants of the other vehicle involved in an accident with the truck accounted for 76 percent of the deaths. Drivers on Texas roads are not immune from this nationwide epidemic.
Each year scores of motorists are killed or injured in motor vehicle collisions with tractor trailers, 18 wheelers, semis, and other big rigs. In 2005, nationwide there were 442,000 crashes involving large trucks with a gross vehicle weight rating greater than 10,000 pounds. These crashes cost 5,212 people their lives, and 114,000 others were left in pain, disfigured, or scarred. Largely due to the difference in vehicle size, the occupants of the other vehicle involved in an accident with the truck accounted for 76 percent of the deaths. Drivers on Texas roads are not immune from this nationwide epidemic.
Many truckers abide by the numerous laws, rules, and regulations in place to make travel on Texas roads and highways a safe experience for all. Unfortunately, due to the actions of some truckers and trucking companies, truck accidents occur at an alarming rate. The common causes of truck accidents include:
- Fatigued or sleepy driver
- Drugs or alcohol impairment
- Inexperienced driver
- Inadequate training
- Speeding, dangerous, or reckless driving
- Aggressive driving
- Tailgating
- Failure to yield the right of way
- Poorly maintained truck brakes
- Oversized trucks
- Overloaded trucks
- Unsafe safety systems
- Lack of underride protection
When drivers of over-the-road trucks are inexperienced, fatigued, or poorly trained, the trucking company is often at fault. Our team also represents these truck drivers, who are victims of the company’s financially motivated decision to create and enforce illegal schedules, unreasonably extend shifts, and maintain fake logbooks to mask these illegal or improper practices. Trucking companies often skimp on maintenance and safety equipment and ignore the need to important qualifications shirk their hiring requirements and training. These efforts, which push truck drivers beyond their limits to make or save a buck, can lead to catastrophic injuries and death.
Accidents involving commercial vehicles kill and injure thousands each year – the sheer size of these vehicles when compared with an auto or motorcycle means that few of these accidents are minor, often resulting in catastrophic injuries that require years of rehabilitation and substantial compensation for medical bills, lost wages, and long-term care. The truck accident lawyers at Eberstein & Witherite, LLP, have experience as insurance company defense counsel, and they understand the tricks and tactics the insurance companies will use to delay or deny your claim. In many cases, an insurance company will have an investigative team on-site within hours of an accident, gathering evidence solely to dispute your personal injury claim and minimize their financial exposure.
Eberstein & Witherite, LLP, and our truck accident legal staff led by Brian Eberstein have substantial experience in truck accident litigation and have won millions of dollars for Texas families after carelessness, recklessness, or negligence on the part of a truck driver or trucking company resulted in a serious injury or wrongful death:
Led by Brian Eberstein, our team helped the surviving family members of a mother who was killed when an 18-wheeler struck the family’s vehicle, which was disabled and partially in the traffic lane. The family was awarded $704,320.50 to help them cope with their significant loss.
In another matter, our team won $787,321.79 for the surviving family members who lost their father in an accident with an 18-wheeler in Dallas County.
Eberstein & Witherite, LLP, successfully negotiated a $1.6 million settlement to compensate him for damages related to the death of our client’s loved one. Tragically, the deceased driver ran out of gas while traveling on a Texas state highway. After he pulled his vehicle into the right lane, he was struck by an oncoming truck. Using sophisticated computer modeling, the engineering experts on our team were able to illustrate how the truck driver should have been able to see and avoid the car.
In another truck accident case, our client developed serious back problems after a collision with a commercial truck aggravated his two prior back fusions. Our firm also helped our client receive $316,989.66 to compensate him for the back injury he sustained when his car was struck by an 18-wheeler.
These and other clients have benefited from our firm’s knowledge, resources, and commitment to go the distance to hold truckers or trucking companies accountable for catastrophic injury or death occurring on Texas roads and highways. If you or a loved one is a victim of a truck accident in Texas, it is important that you have an experienced Texas truck accident attorney on your side.
Contact Eberstein & Witherite, LLP, leading trucking accident Lawyers for a confidential consultation with an attorney who will provide straight answers about the legal options available to you. It costs you nothing to contact us and our firm is owed nothing unless we are successful in obtaining compensation for you.
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