Texas Truck Wreck Attorney Blog

Big truck accidents are happening with great regularity - not just in Texas, but in other states across the country as well. Let us consider some recent truck accidents.

In Missouri recently the trailer of a semi truck crossed into the path of a passenger car causing the driver of the vehicle to swerve to avoid running into the back of the rig. As a result both the passenger vehicle driver and the semi truck driver received injuries and were transported to a nearby hospital.

In Michigan recently the saying 'neither rain nor sleet nor hail will stop a mailman from delivering his mail' proved wrong when a semi truck carrying a load of U.S. letters and other post ran into the back of another semi - after which it hit a utility pole and brought down wires that caused local businesses and residences to lose power for several hours.

Apparently the first driver was stopped at a red light when the second driver ran into him. (It sounds like a case of distracted driving.) Both drivers were taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

In a short news post from Mississippi yesterday drivers were warned away from a major thoroughfare due to an overturned semi truck. No details were available except to say that the entire highway was blocked. At the same time, in Colorado, a semi truck ran into the median in a predawn accident in which minor injuries were reported.

Finally, while none of the aforementioned accidents resulted in fatalities - that is actually unusual.

The more likely scenario is the one that follows:
Several days ago two different school buses transporting teenagers to a fun-filled getaway were involved in a chain reaction accident at a highway location in which traffic was at a standstill. One bus ran into the back of a semi truck and the other bus ran into it. Two teenagers lost their lives.

Big Rigs and commercial vehicles can easily cause serious injury or wrongful death, when 80,000 pounds meets a 5,000 pound passenger car bad things happen.