At Tabor Law, we know that trucking companies just don’t seem to understand how devastating a truck accident can be to the entire family. Since 1990, more than 35,000 drivers, passengers, pedestrians, and law enforcement officers have been killed or injured in truck accidents on Indiana highways. Many national trucking companies are self-insured, or have insurance investigators planted in every major metropolitan area. When one of their trucks gets into an accident, they are likely to have one of their own investigators at the scene within an hour. While you’re still in the emergency room, they’re gathering evidence.
dudley case study
In 2006, Officer Gary Dudley was riding his bicycle in the charity ride with a group of other police officers southbound on State Road 63 when the riders' support motor vehicle was read-ended by a truck.
torma case study
Anthony Torma was driving northbound on I-69 when he came upon a line of traffic stopped in as a result of an earlier collision and was rear-ended by a semi-tractor trailer that had not slowed down.
cole case study
Gary Cole suffered serious injuries requiring multiple surgeries when the driver of a Lawn truck made a left-hand turn in front of Gary as he was operating his motorcycle in Anderson, IN.
Causes of truck accidents vary. Click on the links below to find out more about the most common types of trucking accidents.
- mechanical failure
- truck driver error
- FMCSA violations
- log violations
- substance abuse, DUI
- operator fatigue
- negligent hiring & negligent supervision
- following too closely
- construction site accident
- loose freight accidents
- wrongful death, catastrophic injuries
- indiana highway accidents
- industry negligence
