Category: Truck Accidents In New York
Truck drivers are required to abide by specific hours-of-service regulations established by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), which are intended to prevent truck driver fatigue. Unfortunately, because they work on tight deadlines, truck drivers sometimes violate those hours-of-service regulations, leading to devastating truck accidents. If you were injured
Our client’s husband was tragically killed at a scrap metal yard in Upstate New York when the driver of a tractor-trailer irresponsibly sought to dump a load of crushed cars and tin while our client’s husband was in the process of parking a truck only a few feet away. The
John (a fictitious name) had been driving tractor trailers for nearly 20 years. Being behind the wheel of a powerful rig had always been his dream. And he was good at it. Living in the South with his wife and teenage daughter, he would usually pick up a load of
The True Tale: Haven’t we sometimes driven our car on a highway when a huge tractor-trailer truck has barreled past us, to our left or right, raising our anxiety and stress level to an extreme? Add those experiences to the weight and size of the average tractor-trailer and our anxiety
WWNY-TV reported on October 6, 2019, that three men were killed in a head-on collision between a U-Haul van and a pickup truck in Orleans County. According to state police, the U-Haul van crossed the center line of State Highway 63 in Shelby and struck the oncoming pickup. According to
This summer the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration put forth a proposal to help cut down the number of deaths due to truck accidents, by ensuring that large trucks could not travel at high speeds. Now, New York Senator Charles Schumer is calling on the Department of Transportation for the
Reasonable people can disagree as to how involved the government should be in our day-to-day lives. There are levels of involvement with which each of us is comfortable. What is inarguable is that if the government is going to bother intervening, they should make sure to offer equal protection to
