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| Accidents involving
heavy trucks or tractor-trailers far too frequently
result in deaths or serious injuries. About 700
heavy truck drivers and passengers in truck cabs
die each year. In addition, almost 3,700 persons
in cars and other passenger vehicles die annually
in collisions with heavy trucks. |
| About two-thirds of
the deaths and serious injuries in heavy truck
accidents involve rollover or frontal collisions.
In these accidents, investigators have found
that the ejection of the driver from the cab,
the crushing of the roof or front of the cab
and the exterior positioning of fuel tanks
were the main reasons why truckers died. |
| Government safety
agencies report that multiple safety devices
can reduce the likelihood of death or serious
injury to truck drivers and cab passengers.
These include front and side airbags. |
| To determine why a
heavy truck accident occurred, it is often
necessary to preserve the truck in order to
inspect it, along with interviewing witnesses
and reviewing police reports. Factors that
can contributed to a crash include the truck's
speed and operation, weather and driving conditions
and the truck's mechanical condition. |
| When examining the
truck's mechanical condition, special attention
must be paid to the truck's braking systems.
Loaded tractor-trailers take 20-40 percent
greater distance than cars to stop, and this
difference is greater when trailers are empty.
Accident data from the National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA) shows that 30
percent of all heavy truck accidents are linked
to brakes being out of adjustment. Braking
performance depends on regular, sound maintenance. |
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Lieff Cabraser Heimann
& Bernstein, LLP represents
persons injured in vehicle
accidents. Click
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| Lieff
Cabraser has participated in over thirty-five $100
million-plus settlements & verdicts since 1992.
To read a summary,
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| Dec. 29, 2006, "Judge
OKs $14.5M Settlement in Class Action Over Bad Jeep Brakes." Learn
more... |
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| Families of truckers who
have died and truckers seriously injured have charged
in lawsuits against truck manufacturers that the
doors and roofs of the trucks were defective because
they did not adequately prevent the driver from
being ejected from the cab. In other cases where
the cab was crushed, it has been alleged that the
cabs were not strong enough and the drivers were
crushed to death when they should have survived
the accident. |
| In addition, families
of drivers and passengers in cars that have
been killed in multi-vehicle truck accidents
have filed lawsuits against truck manufacturers
when defects in the trucks' mechanical systems
resulted in the accident. |
| For example, in 2003,
the children of a woman in Nebraska killed
when a dump truck slammed into her car at a
fast-food drive-through sued the truck's manufacturer,
Freightliner LLC of Portland, Oregon. The children
alleged that defective brakes on the dump truck
led to the accident that killed their mother.
After the accident, according to press reports,
Freightliner voluntarily recalled 133,000 trucks
with brake pins similar to the one thought
to have failed in the crash. |
| Damages in these lawsuits
have included general and compensatory damages
for: |
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| Founded in 1972, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein,
LLP is an over fifty attorney
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as one of the top 20 plaintiffs’ law firms in America. |
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