Truck Accidents
Avoid These Trucking Bottlenecks on Georgia Roads
Driving on Georgia’s roadways requires a significant amount of awareness and skill, especially when it comes to sharing the highways with large commercial vehicles. Unfortunately, no amount of preparation and skill will guarantee that drivers won’t end up stuck in a truck bottleneck. Traffic slows to a crawl in these congested areas, posing a… Read More »
Georgia Truck Tire Blowout Accidents
Tire blowouts can happen on any vehicle, but they are especially dangerous on larger vehicles, like commercial trucks. The sheer weight and size of these vehicles can cause drivers to lose control if a tire fails, resulting in collisions with other cars and structures. Even when a truck driver is able to retain control… Read More »
Truck Driver Fatigue in Georgia
While commercial vehicles play a key role in interstate commerce across the U.S., they also pose a very real risk of injury to other road users. Unfortunately, collisions between these kinds of large vehicles and other standard-sized passenger cars are occurring at an increasing rate in Georgia. While there are a number of different… Read More »
Don’t Make These Mistakes When Filing a Truck Accident Claim
The steps that you take (and don’t take) after a truck accident can have important implications for the outcome of an eventual legal claim. To help you avoid losing out on the compensation that you deserve, we’ve included a list of some of the most common mistakes we see during the truck accident claim… Read More »
What are the Most Common Types of Truck Accidents in Georgia?
Truck accidents have become an increasingly serious problem on U.S. roadways, causing catastrophic and sometimes deadly injuries and devastating property damage. While all truck accidents are different, they do tend to fall under certain categories, including jackknife accidents and rollover crashes. Having a good understanding of the many types of truck accidents in which… Read More »
Proving Fault for a Georgia Truck Accident
If you were involved in a truck accident and were driving a smaller passenger car at the time, you are likely suffering from serious injuries and significant property damage. Like any other type of vehicle accident case, an injured party can only obtain reimbursement for these losses by first proving liability and damages. Unfortunately,… Read More »
Increased Weight Limits for Commercial Vehicles in Georgia Could Have Devastating Consequences
Anyone who has spent any time on our state’s roadways knows just how common the sight of commercial vehicles has become. Weighing upwards of 80,000 pounds and sometimes stretching to 70 or 80 feet, commercial freight trucks pose an ever-looming threat to other drivers. This danger may have been increased in recent weeks after… Read More »
Using Black Box Data in Your Truck Accident Case
Truck accident cases are different from cases involving passenger vehicles in a lot of ways. The kinds of evidence available to the parties, for instance, isn’t the same, as most commercial vehicles have black boxes or Electronic Data Recorders (EDRs), which contain important information that can be used to help determine the cause of… Read More »
Tractor-Trailer Hits Stalled Kia On I-85 Gwinnett
On a Thursday morning, traffic on Interstate 85 (I-85) in Gwinnett County, Georgia was disrupted for nearly four hours due to a fatal accident involving a car and a tractor-trailer. The Georgia State Patrol stated that the tractor-trailer was heading north close to Buford Drive around 6:30 am when it collided with a Kia… Read More »
The Worst Bottlenecks In Georgia
Heavy traffic has become the norm in Atlanta, where poor infrastructure and a burgeoning population have led to ever more congested roads. One of the most common causes of heavy traffic in Atlanta and across the state, however, is the presence of semi-trucks. Atlanta is an economic hub in the south, so it should… Read More »
