Truck Accidents

SAN DIEGO TRUCK ACCIDENT LAWYERS, PALM SPRINGS TRUCK ACCIDENT ATTORNEYS, ORANGE COUNTY BIG RIG ACCIDENT LAWYERS, PALM DESERT 18 WHEELER ACCIDENT ATTORNEY

Palm Springs Palm Springs, San Diego, Orange County, Palm Desert Truck Accident Law Firm of Attorney R. Sebastian Gibson, Trucking Accident Attorney and Big Rig Lawyer

Serving the Palm Springs, Palm Desert Area, Indio, Indian Wells, Coachella, Ontario, Rancho Cucamonga, San Diego, Orange County, Ventura, San Luis Obispo, the Central Coast, San Bernardino & Santa Barbara from our law firm in Rancho Mirage, CA

What makes a truck accident different from the average automobile accident?  Certainly the amount of damages that can be caused is higher, but fault must still be proven.  Admittedly, truck drivers receive special training, but that isn't a sufficient excuse by an insurance company to deny a claim, as Palm Springs and Palm Desert truck accident attorney and lawyer Sebastian Gibson and any other truck accident attorneys utilized by the Sebastian Gibson truck accident law firm, are well aware.

Proper loading, which may be overlooked by the average law firm of auto accident attorneys, can be very important.  Items fall off of trucks that don't fall off of cars.  Additionally, there are a host of other factors and items that must also be investigated by atruck accident attorney evaluating a personal injury or wrongful death case.  A few of those special factors are discussed below, but this is by no means an exhaustive discussion of factors unique to truck accidents that require special investigation by a truck accident attorney.

Statistics, noted by the Palm Springs and Palm Desert California law firm's truck accident lawyers and attorneys utilized by our law firm and those we utilize from other law firms, indicate that almost 10% of people in a large truck accident will suffer death and a good many more will suffer catastrophic injuries.  Because of their size, accidents involving big rigs, semi-trucks, large trucks and tractor-trailers are more likely to result in serious injures and deaths in auto vs. truck accidents than in accidents involving only passenger automobiles.  While any truck weighing over 10,000 pounds is considered a large truck, by lawyers, 18 wheelers and tractor trailers can weigh in excess of 80,000 pounds and on occasion substantially more than that.

For Palm Springs Palm Desert area and southern California truck lawyer Sebastian Gibson, truck accidents require additional considerations and special investigation.  Regulations at both the federal and state levels have additional rules, not in effect for non-truck

drivers, to ensure adequate hours of rest for truck drivers, training, proper loading of vehicles, different speeds and additional rules for the safe passing of other vehicles.

Trucking companies are today required to keep paper and/or non-paper records of the hours of driving by truckers, and of the weight and loading of their vehicles. While trucking companies don't willingly offer up these records to an individual, they are demanded in litigation by the truck accident attorneys and lawyers utilized by our truck accident law firm who have in the past worked for our law firm, and those who may in the future be working on your case.

Accidents unique to trucks, evaluated by our Palm Springs Palm Desert Area and Southern California truck accident attorney Sebastian Gibson and experts utilized by him, include jack-knifed trucks, vehicles sliding under trucks from behind and from the side, squeeze collisions which occur when a driver to the side of the truck fails to realize that the truck driver is making a turn (or the truck driver fails to realize that a car is to the side of the truck when the truck driver begins making the turn), slow-moving truck collisions, and truck accidents caused by items falling off of trucks.

Southern California truck accident attorney and lawyer Sebastian Gibson has handled many different truck accidents such as these, unique to trucks and the catastrophic injuries and deaths that have resulted from them.

If you've been injured in a truck accident, let the truck accident lawyers which we utilize at the Law Firm of attorney Sebastian Gibson, serving the Palm Springs Palm Desert Area, Indio, Coachella, Indian Wells, La Quinta, Riverside, the Inland Empire, San Bernardino, Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange County, Ventura, San Luis Obispo, the Central Coast & Santa Barbara, from law offices in Rancho Mirage, CA, assist you in obtaining the compensation you deserve under California law.