There are many regulations relating to large trucks which have to be considered if you or a member of your family are involved in a motor vehicle accident with such a vehicle. Transport truck drivers are obliged to follow special safety guidelines which they often disregard or in many instances falsify the documentation required by both state and federal law. That is why you should contact an attorney to protect your rights and interests when you are involved in a car-truck accident with injuries.

If you are involved in a truck-car accident in Broward County, Miami-Dade County or Palm Beach County you should contact our Broward Truck Accident Attorneys as soon as possible in order to seek legal protection for you or your family member who has been injured. As always, medical treatment is the most important factor to be considered following an injury accident involving trucks and cars. Also, it is almost always an important precautionary measure following an automobile accident where a car and truck have collided to be taken to the emergency room if you have any kind of pain or discomfort even if it involves neck or back soreness.

Truck-car accidents almost always require emergency care due to injuries either to the driver of the auto or his passenger who are normally injured in such a motor vehicle accident. Neck or back soreness may seem natural and without a need for emergency treatment. However, within days or weeks such a minor injury may become a serious debilitating permanent issue which will require eventual surgery and long-term medical care. The law firm of Youngs and Associates will strive to provide you with the legal advice that you need due to the negligence of a large truck or tractor-trailer driver while operating such vehicles. Broken bones or severe additional injuries, in particular head injuries, and other bodily trauma are often the consequence of a car- truck collision.

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Legal advice from the beginning of a case involving a truck and car collision is extremely important due to the fact that the trucking companies respond immediately to the scene of such an accident and began gathering evidence and forming a case against you or a member of your family in order to protect the corporate interest involved when in fact, the negligence of one of their drivers behind the wheel of a large truck or tractor-trailer operating on the streets or highways in the United States was the cause of an accident. In addition, many of the large trucking firms send investigators to the scene of a truck-car collision where one of their drivers is involved in order to protect their firm from liability based on the negligence of one of their operators.

Many times these investigators will want to obtain a statement from the driver of an automobile involved in a collision with one of their employees who is driving their truck so that they can produce a report based on statements supposedly made by the driver of the automobile which will be favorable to their position indicating that the driver of the car was at fault as opposed to their truck driver. Do not provide a statement to any investigator who arrives at the scene of the accident representing the trucking company or provide any statement to one of these individuals at the hospital if you have received emergency medical care.

In addition, if contacted by any representative of the trucking company if you or a member of your family is involved in an accident with a large transport or tractor-trailer vehicle advise such a person to contact your attorney. An attorney will represent your interests not those of a trucking firm who will appear to be friendly and sympathetic with regard to your injuries and suffering but in fact are attempting to manipulate the situation. They want to settle any claim that you may have against the trucking firm in a manner where you will receive minimal compensation if any for your injuries and suffering.

In many states, no-fault insurance does not apply when a large tractor-trailer vehicle is involved in an accident with an automobile allowing you to pursue legal action without satisfying the no-fault auto accident laws relating to permanent injury, serious scarring or death as a result of an accident. If you were involved in an accident with a large truck you need to contact our firm so that we can conduct our own investigation on your behalf using the experts available to us to support your case where you have been injured due to the negligence of a truck driver who is working for a large corporate transport company or other firm. We invite you to call us 24/7 at (305) 600-1777 from anywhere in the United States. Although our home offices are located in Miami and Broward County, Florida, we have offices in New York and Colorado and often represent clients injured in car- truck accidents in a variety of other states . Our primary goal is to represent you zealously within the bounds of the law and you can be assured that we will do everything possible in order to satisfy this goal with regard to each and every client and strive to obtain the maximum recovery for injured drivers and passengers of cars and motorcycles.

We also represent pedestrians who are struck by trucks and severely injured. Families of deceased victims of car-truck accidents are encouraged to contact our office as soon as possible so that we can represent the interests of your deceased love one and your family.

A variety of statistics have been produced by a number of federal agencies and other think tank groups which indicate the severity of injury which occurs when trucks and cars collide in an accident. In 2008, for example, based on statistics from The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) it was determined that in the year 2008 alone, 4229 people were killed in accidents where trucks were involved. Among the deceased, 248 pedestrians were victims of accidents where large trucks or tractor trailers were involved. In addition to the large number of people who were killed as result of trucking accidents, there were also an additional 90,000 individuals injured in the United States in the year 2008 alone as a result of such collisions. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (FMCSA) has kept statistics since 1975 regarding trucking accidents. From 1975 through 2008 the number of fatalities has remained approximately the same, at least 4000 per year. It appears that safety factors have improved somewhat during that time, since the number of trucks on the roads and highways in the United States has risen from over 5 million in 1975 to over 9 million in 2008.

Studies have been conducted to determine the cause of accidents involving truckers in the United States. A variety of factors have contributed to the large number of accidents and deaths attributed to the operators of large trucks or tractor trailers. However, there are four common factors which are usually involved or related to accidents wherein truck drivers are involved. The first most important factor is that truckers are often fatigued, drowsy or sleepy and as a consequence of this fact, they are involved in a collision. Another very important factor involving truck-car accidents is the fact that many truck drivers, because they are either late for delivery of their cargo or simply want to finish their long haul trip earlier, have a tendency to speed and follow automobiles too closely preventing them from stopping within a safe distance when the vehicles in front of them apply their brakes. Another factor involving the negligence of many truck drivers which has been determined based on numerous studies is the fact that they often improperly change lanes without signaling thereby not allowing for the proper distances for cars which are approaching in the lane to which they are moving.

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Finally, many truck drivers fail to drive properly when the conditions require when it is raining, snowing or there are foggy conditions affecting the vision of the drivers. Instead of stopping their vehicles in severe weather conditions many truck drivers continue to drive which often causes a severe truck-car or multiple vehicle collision wherein drivers and passengers of automobiles are severely injured. In other words, in many instances, truckers drive too fast or continue to drive even though there are severe weather conditions or other factors which obliges them to slow their vehicles. Due to their failure to use reasonable care during severe weather conditions while operating their trucks, serious car-truck crash with injuries often result.

We invite you or a member of your family who was injured in a car-truck accident to contact our firm for advice relating to any personal injury sustained due to an accident involving a tractor trailer or other large truck. Do not allow the trucking company investigators or insurance adjusters to guide your actions because in the last analysis you may be poorly compensated by them considering your injuries and suffering you incur as a result of the negligence of a driver of a large truck or tractor trailer. Please remember that we can visit you in the hospital if necessary and are available 24 hours a day for consultation. We have offices in Aventura, Pembroke Pines, Doral and Weston, Florida as well as Denver, Colorado and New York City.

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