Texas Truck Wreck Attorney Blog

In my Texas personal injury law practice I see many cases of serious injury or wrongful death that resulted from a tire blowout. In some cases a tire was defective and led to a very serious crash and at other times the driver overreacted to the emergency situation and caused the accident.

One of the key factors in handling any emergency situation is not to panic. Panic is the enemy of many situations that could have been avoided.

If you are faced with a blowout, here are some safety tips to help guide you safely off the roadway.

1. Keep a firm grip on the steering wheel and do your best to keep your vehicle moving in a straight line.

2. Very slowly take your foot off the gas pedal and gradually reduce your speed.

3. When you can, turn on your turn signal and slowly moved toward the side of the road making no sudden turns.

4. Find a spot on the side of the road where you can safely pull off the road and get out of the way of moving traffic.

5. Park your car or pickup truck entered on your hazard lights while making sure your vehicle is completely out of the way of oncoming traffic and in a safe position. Make sure and keep an eye out for oncoming traffic and do not stand in between the car and the roadway.

While these tips are mainly common sense, many people have never experienced a tire failure and when the blowout occurs the vehicle tends to pull toward the side of the failed tire. Do not overreact and oversteer to the opposite direction, which results in a rollover or loss of control.

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With the rise of Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and now Google plus the world has opened up new avenues of online communications. With those communications comes some responsibility for all of us and also fodder to defend lawsuits.

Many law firms are using discovery to try to obtain Facebook, MySpace and other social media user names to find out information on a plaintiff or a defendant to use against that person in a lawsuit.

For an injury victim that could mean potentially anything you say can potentially be something that you would be asked about in a deposition or at trial. For instance if you spent the day at the beach with your friends you may be cross-examined on that even though you are recovering from an injury. As you can imagine it would be easy to manipulate Facebook postings to the advantage of the person asking the questions. However, if you posted of woe is me comment-which most people wouldn't even think of doing-you would never hear about it under cross-examination.

The moral of the story here is that social media is much more readily available than most people realize and both plaintiff lawyers and defense lawyers use it in injury litigation and I'm told divorce lawyers feel Facebook is a gold mine for their practice.

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A family member has been in a terrible 18 wheeler accident and you are struggling to deal with the injuries and recovery of your loved one and it is the last time you want to have to do anything other than tend to your family. Yet it is very important in many truck accident cases that the victim obtain quality and competent representation as soon as possible.

Whenever there is a serious truck accident the ARE greater than not that the insurance carrier will have lawyers and experts at the scene within 24 hours of the truck accident. The insurance company dispatches their group for one purpose and one purpose only and that is to defend the claim and find things that will help them deny or delay the claim.

Not only are the insurance quick response team looking for things they can make issues in a truck accident lawsuit but mainly they are looking for a way to shift responsibility from the trucking company and truck driver to either the victim or another party. In short, they are looking for ways to pay as little as it possibly can from the accident.

There are such things as skid marks, debris, fact witnesses, black box or onboard computer systems, and other important evidence that can disappear if a family does not act quickly to protect their interests. Many times an unscrupulous trucking company will look to sell the damage truck as quick as possible to avoid it being used as evidence in the case.

If you were loved one have been injured in a truck accident the first thing you should do is find a quality and competent Texas truck accident attorney to protect your interests.

Recently I met a young man named Tyson Dever and would like to spend a minute telling the world what this awesome young man is doing to help young people. Tyson was in a very bad truck accident and it left him in a wheelchair for life. Instead of focusing on what had happened to him, Tyson decided to approach this tragedy as an opportunity to help others become the best they can be, by becoming a motivational speaker and personal inspiration to others.

Tyson gives motivational speeches to teenagers and has a very powerful message of hope and opportunity and of trusting God. You can view Tyson' Dever's YouTube video by clicking here.

Seeing a young person take a negative situation such as his injury from the 18-wheeler accident and turn it into a positive and helpful alternative is a very powerful message for everyone.

In my Texas personal injury practice I routinely see accident victims and families who have lost loved ones in whose lives have been inextricably altered. I am glad to share Tyson's story of hope and future to clients I help and to others as a message of power.

You can contact Tyson Dever through his website http://www.tysondever.com