Every driver has a basic duty to respond to a road hazard on a public road or highway. Professional drivers are held to an even higher standard. A truck driver who fails to take necessary and appropriate action can cause a lot of pain and damage. That is what happened to Constance, a client of [...]
"Jackknife" is the term for a semi-truck trailer coming to an acute angle with the truck cab, like a small folding knife. In the last year, I have been looking the causes of semi-truck jackknifes on Washington highways, as I was working on a truck crash case in which fatal injuries were caused by a [...]
Most rear-end collisions are entirely preventable with proper training and safe driving. So why does this type of crash happen so often? It is my experience that rear-end collisions are often a failure of truck drivers to: maintain a safe following distance; operate their trucks at a proper speed for the traffic, road and weather conditions; [...]
