Learn How to Protect Yourself on West Texas’ “Highway of Death”
Texas’ Permian Basin is booming again with oil and gas extraction activity. However, while many welcome the increased production and the hiring that follows, the attorneys at Crosley Law know from experience that oil and gas booms also lead to spikes in car and truck crashes. Recently, West Texas’ U.S. Route 285 has received national…
Delivery Truck Accidents Are a Serious and Growing Problem
In May 2018, Crosley Law filed a lawsuit on behalf of a young man who suffered very serious brain injuries when a delivery truck crashed into his bicycle. Emergency department doctors had to place the young victim in an induced coma, and for a while, it was unclear whether he would even survive. Now, he…
What Can Affect Your Truck Accident Case – 5 Top Factors
Trucking Accidents Are Rising at an Alarming Rate According to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), the number of serious truck accidents in the U.S. increased by 62% between 2009 and 2015. During that period, fatal accidents also increased by 26%. This increase in accidents means more trucking accident victims and loved ones of victims who desperately need compensation for medical bills, lost wages, and other financial…
The Complicated Evidence Situation with Trucking Accident Injury Cases
Any type of motor vehicle accident can disrupt your life. An accident with a commercial truck, however, can be especially traumatic and the aftermath can be much more devastating due to these vehicles’ massive size, incredible weight, and lack of maneuverability.
Will Speed Limiters Make Commercial Trucks Safer?
Big commercial trucks are the largest and most dangerous vehicles on our roadways. Wrecks involving these trucks often cause significant damage to both property and human life, and these crashes have also been on the rise in recent years. Today, more than one in 10 traffic fatalities results from a crash involving a large truck,…
New Truck Technologies Could Save Lives and Help Your Injury Lawsuit
Advanced trucking safety technologies that are already available could prevent thousands of deadly truck crashes and hundreds of deaths each year, according to a recent report from AAA. Unfortunately, trucking company greed and Washington bureaucracy are holding up the push to require these safety systems on America’s big rig trucks.
Semi-truck Collides with Unattended Vehicle, Catches Fire, Falls from Loop 410 Overpass
Northbound Loop 410 is down to one lane this evening as road crews attempt to clear the scene of a devastating trucking accident. At around 2:00 on Monday afternoon, an 18-wheeler collided with an unattended Chevy truck that had been resting on the shoulder. The crash caused the semi-truck to catch fire and then demolish…
“Congress Needs to Toughen Its Oversight of Trucking, Not Loosen It”—The New York Times
Close Your Eyes. Walk Backwards. Howard Abramson of The New York Times recently penned a scathing op-ed of Congress’ refusal to enact and enforce safety regulations on the trucking industry in the United States. Abramson addressed the hypocrisy at work in Washington when he wrote, “And still Congress continues to do the trucking industry’s bidding…
Robo-Trucks: The Pros and Cons of Self-Driving Commercial Trucks
It appears that self-driving cars are the future for civilian motorists and that the act of driving as we know it may soon be obsolete. For commercial freight-hauling semi-trucks, that future is now. The Inspiration While engineers estimate that widespread usage of self-driving trucks is at least a decade away, functioning prototypes are already being…
What Really Matters When We Talk about Trucking Regulations?
A recent opinion piece in The New York Times regarding trucking regulations is more than just opinion. It is necessary fact. Statistics show the inherent dangers of operating a big rig. New, lax regulation has been passed because of pushback from the trucking industry, which will only compound these dangers and make our roads even…
Weak Trucking Safety Standards Put Cars at Greater Risk
Photo credit: ER24 EMS (Pty) Ltd. / Foter / CC BY-SA It should come as no surprise that drivers and passengers in cars are at a much higher risk for injury or death when they are involved in a collision with a semi truck. In fact, if a car collides with another vehicle, like an…
Rising Fatalities and Trucking Accidents in the Eagle Ford Shale
New statistics for the 2014 calendar year indicate that both traffic fatalities and crashes rose in 2014 compared to 2013 in the Eagle Ford Shale and Permian Basin. In 2014, 696 drivers were killed and over 8,600 crashes involving fatal or serious injury occurred. In the Eagle Ford alone, there were 272 fatalities due to…
