Fortunately, most motor vehicle accidents involve light impacts that result in damage to one or both vehicles, and perhaps some minor injuries. However, occasionally a car crash can be so severe that one of the drivers or passengers suffers a traumatic brain injury...
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Safety concerns after truck weight limits increased
Michigan truck drivers understand what extra weight in the trailer does to their braking power. Unless you have driven a fully loaded semi-truck, you may not know how scary it can actually be. In November 2021, California Gov. Gavin Newsom significantly increased the...
Safety advocates worry: Teen truckers may soon be driving
Residents of Grand Rapids and other areas of Michigan as well as other parts of the country may want to learn more about a recent development regarding trucking. Past requirements were that drivers must meet the age of 21 before receiving permission to be a trucker....
Common causes of commercial truck accidents
Truck drivers have a challenging job that requires many of them to work the maximum allowable hours, which means they are often fatigued at the end of shifts or after having driven several consecutive days. When this is added with other factors that can happen on the...
Be aware of large truck blind spots
Drivers in Michigan should be aware of large truck blind spots. Every vehicle on the road has a blind spot. But for large trucks, those are much bigger than average. Truckers can't see for one lane to their left, two lanes to their right and for 20 feet in front or...
Untreated medical conditions render truckers dangerous
There are a lot of federal regulations in place meant to keep you safe from negligent truckers. Yet, all too often these truckers operate their rigs in ways that put you and others in danger. In many of these cases, truck accidents result that leave unsuspecting...
Know how to hold truck companies accountable
Truck accidents often leave devastation in their wake. In most cases, this includes serious physical harm to innocent motorists who are involved. If you're one of those victims, then you're probably struggling to find a path forward. Medical bills are likely piling up...
Rooting out the causes of commercial truck accidents
In your standard car crash, you have two vehicles and two drivers. It’s relatively easy for insurance companies and courts to assign blame. The blame generally lies with one or the other drivers, or it may lie with both to varying degrees. Commercial truck accidents...
5 tips for sharing the road with large trucks
No one wants to be involved in a serious accident on the road. However, if you end up in an accident with a large semi-truck, you could receive devastating injuries. In 2018, 4,136 people died in large truck accidents, 31% more than in 2009. And truck drivers weren’t...
Broad-based liability a common reality in commercial truck crashes
No one will reasonably argue that big trucks – that is, the nation’s varied fleet of large commercial rigs – comprise an outlier demographic on roadways in Michigan and nationally. After all, those outsized conveyances are a key catalyst that both figuratively and...
