Trucking Accidents

Truck accidents are among the most devastating types of motor vehicle collisions. Due to the sheer size and weight of trucks, accidents involving these vehicles often result in severe injuries or even fatalities. While the immediate aftermath of a truck accident is challenging enough, you might not realize that the long-term effects of truck accident…

As many Kansas City, MO residents are likely aware, there is a specific bridge that seems to eat trucks. The bridge has developed a certain recognition, or stigma, for its continuous ability to injure truck drivers while also demolishing their tractor-trailers. That’s right; we’re talking about the famous Independence Avenue Bridge. However, the truth is…

Truck accident lawyers are well aware of the McHaffie rule, which is often used as a difficult hurdle to jump over when a truck accident claim is filed. A lot of times, trucking businesses will use this rule to give themselves immunity because it can protect them from negligence claims. However, regardless of how difficult…

Have you ever driven down the highway and noticed a truck turned over? If so, you have most likely witnessed a truck rollover accident. This is very common among semi-trucks, but it can also happen to commercial vehicles, flatbed trucks, and box trucks. Regardless of what type of truck is turned over, it can be…

Accidents with large and commercial trucks tend to be much worse than collisions with passenger cars and vehicles. With big trucks come big crashes, big damage, and big injuries – mostly to you and your car. Even when it’s obvious the truck driver was at fault for the accident, these types of cases can be…

Unfortunately, car and truck accidents happen all too often, and when they do, they often leave victims seriously injured. Sometimes, those injuries are scrapes and bruises; other times, it’s broken bones and lacerations. Then there are times when the injuries are so severe that it may lead to a loss of a limb entirely. Traumatic…

Large trucks, big rigs, commercial trucks – no matter the name, they are massive vehicles. In fact, large trucks weigh in somewhere between 20,000 and 80,000 pounds, depending on the amount of cargo they’re hauling. Commercial trucks pose a variety of risks to the passenger vehicles around them on roads and highways. In addition to…

With the shortage of truck drivers, the United States is looking for ways to increase the truck driver population. One of the latest proposals to help the shortage is to hire teens to drive commercial trucks. While this may seem like a viable solution, there are several worrying aspects. Driving an 18-wheeler is a challenge…

Yesterday, a fatal trucking accident took place in Kansas City, Kansas when a semi-truck hauling orange juice drove over a guard rail and plunged from a bridge on K-32 at I-435. The driver of the truck was pronounced dead at the scene. The cause of the fiery crash is unknown at the time. One other…

We see the devastating consequences of big rig trucking accidents on a daily basis.  While the numbers indicate that trucking accidents and fatalities are down in Missouri, as well as other parts of the country, we know there is a long way to go before we can declare the roads are safe. On Sunday in…