Category Archives: Truck Accidents

How to File a Truck Accident Claim in Pennsylvania: A Step-by-Step Guide

How to File a Truck Accident Claim in Pennsylvania: A Step-by-Step Guide

Experiencing a truck accident can be a life-altering event, leaving you with serious injuries, financial burdens, and a whirlwind of confusion about what steps to take next. The size and weight of commercial trucks make these accidents more catastrophic than typical car crashes, often leading to significant damage and complex legal challenges. If you find […]

Understanding the Importance of Evidence in Truck Accident Cases

Understanding the Importance of Evidence in Truck Accident Cases

Truck accidents can have devastating consequences due to the sheer size and weight of commercial trucks. When involved in a truck accident, gathering evidence is crucial to building a strong case for compensation. Evidence serves as the backbone of any truck accident claim, providing the necessary proof to establish liability and demonstrate the extent of […]

Steps to Take After a Truck Accident

Steps to Take After a Truck Accident

Experiencing a truck accident can be a traumatic and overwhelming event, leaving you unsure of what steps to take next. Understanding the appropriate actions to take immediately after a truck accident can significantly impact your health, safety, and legal rights. Here, we will discuss the crucial steps you should follow if you find yourself involved […]

Understanding Truck Accident Liability in Pennsylvania

Understanding Truck Accident Liability in Pennsylvania

In Pennsylvania, truck accidents can be a grim reality. These accidents — often involving large commercial vehicles — can result in devastating consequences. From severe injuries to tragic loss of life, the aftermath of a truck accident leaves victims and their families grappling with physical, emotional, and financial turmoil. Understanding truck accident liability is crucial […]

Who is responsible for a truck accident?

Earlier this month, PennDOT reported which counties were the most dangerous regarding truck accidents. Lancaster County fell in second–only down by one from Lehigh County in first place–with 48 fatalities in 2018. Most people in Lancaster understand just how dangerous truck accidents are. These monstrous vehicles are essential to ship products across the country, but they […]

4 Essential tips for sharing the road with big rigs

For many drivers, sharing the roadways with large commercial trucks can range from being frustrating to downright terrifying – and for a good reason. In 2018, a staggering 96% of the fatalities in accidents involving a passenger vehicle and a large truck were the passenger vehicle occupants. Large trucks are also involved in roughly one […]

The terrible consequences from underride crashes with commercial trucks

The terrible consequences from underride crashes with commercial trucks

Highway traffic is not uncommon in south-central Pennsylvania with motorists humming, driving and often speeding along the major thoroughfares of U.S. Hwys. 30 and 222. And among the traffic are the ubiquitous big-rig trucks hauling cargo throughout the state and the rest of the country. As long as you drive safely and take precautions around […]

Truck accidents could cause serious burns. Be prepared.

Truck accidents could cause serious burns. Be prepared.

Burn injuries from a crash are more common than it may seem. A single spark, leak or vehicle malfunction may be all it takes to cause a major hazard. Engine fires, explosions and other dangerous reactions can happen under certain circumstances – including in truck accidents. Large vehicles can trigger crash-related fires, many of which […]

Trucker shortage increases risks for all drivers and passengers

Trucker shortage increases risks for all drivers and passengers

Commercial trucks are everywhere. On local streets and highways here in Lancaster and the Pennsylvania Turnpike. They play a crucial role in the local, state and national economies, helping all types of businesses move products and supplies. And while it still may look to the naked eye like these 18-wheelers are everywhere, the country is […]

Why truck accidents happen and how to avoid one

Why truck accidents happen and how to avoid one

If you drive on any of the highways or Interstates around Lancaster, you’ve likely encountered your fair share of large commercial and tractor-trailer trucks. Many drivers admit to feeling unnerved when one of these hulking and imposing trucks pull up alongside or directly behind their much smaller vehicle. It turns out that drivers of smaller […]