Recent Posts in Truck Accident Causes Category
Posted on Apr 4, 2012 By Truck Accident Injury Claim
80,000 pounds of metal rolling down the highway is a real force to be reckoned with, especially if you are driving a passenger vehicle. The force of impact caused by a tractor-trailer is immense and ...
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Posted on Feb 13, 2012 By St. Louis truck accident lawyer
When you are injured in an accident with a commercial motor vehicle , you face an uphill battle of medical recovery and unanticipated medical expenses. The road ahead will be difficult. You need an ...
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Posted on Dec 19, 2011 By Missouri semi-truck crash
Randolph County saw its second serious collision involving a semi-truck in the past two weeks as authorities responded to one early Sunday morning. The crash occured in the town of Moberly Missouri, ...
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Posted on Dec 6, 2011 By Missouri Truck Accident Injury Attorney
The semi-truck crash occured on Highway 67 in St. Francois County Missouri early this afternoon and involved two tractor-trailers. The weather was cold and the area had dusting of snow the night ...
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Posted on Nov 1, 2011 By Missouri Semi-Truck Injury Lawyer
Missouri State Highway Patrol have has notified a Missouri tractor-trailer crash that occurred Monday afternoon involving a semi truck and a passenger vehicle in Carroll County, Missouri. Emergency ...
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Posted on Sep 19, 2011 By Missouri semi-truck accident lawyer
Our Missouri truck accident lawyers were in attendence last week for another APITLA (Association of Plaintiff's Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America) conference in St. Louis Missouri. All of the ...
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Posted on Jul 24, 2011 By Schultz Legal Group
As a Missouri dump truck accident lawyer I have handled many, many cases involving commercial motor vehicles. All cases involving a commercial motor vehicle with a gross vehicle weight rating (gvwr) ...
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Posted on Jul 19, 2011 By Schultz Legal Group
Missouri State Highway Patrol responded Monday afternoon to a 2-vehcile crash on I-70 west in St. Louis County. 20-year-old Bryant Fogelbach of Pacific, Missouri, was driving on westbound Interstate ...
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Posted on Jun 2, 2011 By Schultz Legal Group
Distracted truck drivers can cause serious Missouri 18-wheeler accidents , resulting in injuries or fatalities. And that is the topic of discussion this week as Missouri State Troopers issued traffic ...
Continue reading "UPDATE: Truck Driver Will Be Issued Tickets for Causing Columbia Tractor-Trailer Crash on U.S. 63" »
Posted on May 24, 2011 By Schultz Legal Group
76-year-old David Lauer was driving a multi-ton tractor trailer Monday morning in Lafayette County when he lost control, crossed the center line of US Highway 24, and crashed head on in to the small ...
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Posted on Mar 5, 2011 By Schultz Legal Group
Our Missouri truck accident lawyers are reporting yet another fatal semi-truck crash south of St. Louis . This marks the third fatal tractor-trailer accident in Missouri in the past three months. The ...
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Posted on Feb 28, 2011 By Schultz Legal Group
New Hours-of-Service rule proposal was published in 2010, at year end. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's Notice proposes seven changes to the current requirements of HOS regulations. ...
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Posted on Jan 19, 2011 By Schultz Legal Group
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration recently overhauled its safety reporting and monitoring of commercial motor vehicles as of 2010. One of the first states used to test the new reporting ...
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Posted on Jan 16, 2011 By Schultz Legal Group
Tractor-trailer accidents cause some of the most devastating injuries of any vehicular collisions. Recovery from a semi- truck accident can take weeks, months, and years. Some people never fully ...
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Posted on Jan 4, 2011 By Schultz Legal Group
Tractor-trailer accidents and 18-wheeler accidents cause significant injury and property damage each day on our nations highways. The job of a semi- truck accident injury lawyer is to represent the ...
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Posted on Dec 19, 2010 By Schultz Legal Group
Truck drivers and trucking companies who transfer goods in interstate commerce must abide by a special set of safety regulations. These safety regulations are actual federal statutes that have also ...
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Posted on Nov 30, 2010 By Schultz Legal Group
A Missouri 18-wheeler accident lawsuit typically includes claims of negligence against the truck driver and trucking company. It can also include negligent claims against a freight broker and other ...
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Posted on Sep 25, 2010 By Schultz Legal Group
Many people, including personal injury lawyers, are of the opinion that truck accident injury claims are similar to car accident claims. This could not be further from the truth. Truck accidents ...
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Posted on Sep 2, 2010 By Schultz Legal Group
There can be several types of injuries caused in a truck accident or that result from am 18-wheeler collision. From soft-tissue injuries to a traumatic brain injury, injuries are often more severe ...
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Posted on Aug 24, 2010 By Schultz Legal Group
Studies indicate that persons with sleep apnea perform as poorly on driving performance tests as those who are legally intoxicated. Sleep apnea causes truck drivers to become extremely fatigued, a ...
Continue reading "Dangerous Truck Drivers Admit that Fatigue, Sleep Apnea, and Missouri Truck Accidents Go Hand and Hand" »
Posted on Jun 12, 2010 By Schultz Legal Group
Missouri has had its fair share of recent fatal truck accidents caused by a distracted truck driver. Truck drivers who take their eyes off the road, even for a minute, present a serious safety hazard ...
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Posted on Jun 2, 2010 By Schultz Legal Group
Statistics prove that driver inattention is a common cause of serious truck accidents in Missouri. Truck driver inattention was just recently cited as a probable cause of a fatal 18-wheeler crash in ...
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