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What Causes Truck Tire Blowouts?
When you suffer injuries due to a truck tire failure, you deserve accountability. Find out some of the most common causes of blowouts in Texas.
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What Should You Do After a FedEx Truck Crash in Texas?
An injury crash involving a FedEx Ground truck occurs somewhere in America nearly every day. Were you or a loved one hurt? Here’s what you should do.
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What Happens if You Get in an Accident With a Delivery Truck Driver?
When you get in an accident with a delivery driver, you don’t want excuses — you want fair compensation and peace of mind. An experienced attorney can help you sort through the complex legal issues surrounding these cases.
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5 Reasons You Should Always Talk to a Commercial Vehicle Accident Lawyer After a Crash
Commercial vehicle cases, especially those involving big trucks, are complex. Learn why a lawyer is so important to you getting the money you deserve.
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What Causes Texas Oil Truck Accidents (and What to Do If You’re Injured)
Oil truck crashes are common in Texas, particularly in the Permian Basin. Learn what causes them, and how you can get fair compensation if you’re injured in a tanker truck crash.
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How Can I Be Compensated After a Concrete Mixer Truck Accident?
Cement trucks pose specific threats on the roadways, and an accident with one can lead to a complicated case. Learn how an attorney can help.
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How Does Insurance Work with Commercial Truck Accident Liability?
Before you contact the insurance company or accept a settlement, read this article. We’ll explain the essentials of a truck wreck claim and how you can protect yourself.
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Fatigue-Related Accidents: How Truck Driver Fatigue Causes Wrecks
Drowsy driving is one of the most common forms of driver impairment. In fact, it’s comparable to drunk driving.
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I Was Injured by a UPS Driver. What Can I Expect?
Crashes involving the delivery company are often harder to get through than a “normal” crash. Our lawyers outline the essentials.
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How to Get a Fair Settlement in Your Truck Accident Claim
You should read this if you’ve been in a truck accident and need to understand how to get a fair settlement.
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Find the Best Truck Accident Attorney in San Antonio, Texas
Truck accident cases are more complex than car accident cases. Is your lawyer up to the challenge and able to secure the compensation you deserve?
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How to Sue a Trucking Company in Texas: Your Practical Guide
In this blog, we discuss truck crashes, the litigation process, and what you can expect at every stage.
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Your Guide To Texas Rollover Crash Claims
Here is what you need to know to file a claim if you have been injured by a large truck rollover accident.
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Top 6 Causes Of Truck Accidents – Quick Guide
Learn more about the common causes of truck accidents and how our team helps victims get the compensation and answers they deserve.
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What’s Negligent Hiring and Will It Affect My Truck Wreck Case in San Antonio?
After a catastrophic truck wreck, most people focus their attention on the driver who caused the crash. However, there’s usually a lot more to the story. When trucking companies value profits over safety and people, they make irresponsible hiring decisions that contribute to wrecks. Truck injury lawyers refer to these claims as negligent hiring cases.…
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Truck Wrecks vs. Car Crashes: 3 Essential Differences
Truck wrecks are over two times more likely to be fatal than car crashes, according to recent Texas crash data. But that’s not the only difference that sets them apart. If you or a loved one have been injured in a truck wreck and are considering filing an injury claim, your claims will be more complex because you may have to navigate federal trucking rules and a tangle of competing…
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Will “Flexible” Trucking Rules Encourage Drowsy Driving?
For years, trucking companies have lobbied against federal hours of service (HOS) rules, which limit the number of hours a driver can operate a commercial vehicle. While these rules are meant to keep everyone on the road safe, the trucking industry argues that they too restrictive and complicated. Now, a series of proposed changes may…
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What Is the ELD Mandate and Is It Making Our Roads Safer?
In 2017, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) began requiring that all commercial truck companies install electronic logging devices (ELDs) in their fleet vehicles. These devices have now replaced the paper logs that drivers formerly used to track their on-duty hours, helping to enforce hours of service laws. If you or a loved one…
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Who Is Liable in a Commercial Truck Accident?
Truck collisions are often more traumatic and cause more severe injuries than regular passenger vehicle crashes. But the physical and psychological effects aren’t the only differences between the two types of collisions. Large truck cases are significantly more complex than those involving only passenger vehicle crashes because they involve more parties and defenses — and…
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Are Trucking Regulations Encouraging Drowsy Driving?
Drowsy driving is on the rise. According to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, fatigued driving contributed to almost 11% of serious crashes in 2017. In Texas, drowsy driving isn’t the only statistic that’s gone up in recent years. In 2017, truck crashes claimed the lives of 649 people in Texas alone, a 14% increase…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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,…
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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.
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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…
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“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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Infographic: New Spending Bill and Trucking Regulations
In December 2014, Congress passed a new $1 trillion spending bill to keep the Federal Government running through September of 2015. Among the more significant policy instructions included in the bill are new regulations related to the trucking industry. This infographic highlights the differences between the old regulations and new standards, as well as some…
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Eagle Ford Shale Trucking Crash Claims 5 Lives
About 115 miles south of San Antonio at approximately 7:00 AM on Thursday, January 15, a tanker truck full of oil crashed into a pickup truck and then rolled onto its side. Another vehicle and a van then collided with the tanker causing it to burst into flames. The five men in the van all…
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Trucking Accidents Infographic
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Unintended Consequences: The Rise of Vehicle Collisions as a Result of Increased Fracking & Drilling
Contrary to popular belief, America’s roadways are safer now than they have ever been. Overall, violent accidents and traffic deaths have been reduced substantially over the last 50 years, and increased safety features and driver education have made our roads much safer and prevented many injuries and vehicle collisions. For instance, in 1965, the average…
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Have a Spooky (But Safe) Halloween
When I was a kid, Halloween was essentially a free-for-all. Along with every other family on the block, my parents would unleash my siblings and m (and sometimes my friends) on the neighborhood for an evening complete with various light-hearted pranks, a fully sanctioned sense of spookiness, and ridiculous amounts of sugar. We weren’t a…
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Crosley Law Firm Accepts Two New Clients in the Eagle Ford Shale Region
Crosley Law Firm has recently accepted two new clients involved in distracted driving cases in the Eagle Ford Shale region of Texas. The first suit is a wrongful death case in which a retired police officer was killed when another vehicle collided with his; the other involves a truck driver who was violently rear-ended by…
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Eagle Ford Shale Region Reported 3,430 Crashes in 2013
An increase in trucking traffic around the Eagle Ford Shale area due to the energy boom is also causing an increase in accidents involving trucks. According to KBTX.com, “Last year 3,430 crashes were reported in the Eagle Ford Shale region from South Texas to the Brazos Valley that resulted in serious injuries or fatalities.” Bob…
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3 Elements of a Truck Accident Lawsuit
In any truck accident lawsuit, it is essential to address three key elements: liability, causation, and damages. Liability refers to the question of who caused the accident and is financially and legally responsible for the outcome. Causation examines whether that fault was the proximate cause of the injury or death that resulted from the accident.…
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Truck Accident Settlements Short Victims of Payouts
The proposed rule of decreasing the current 11-hour driving day limit to 10 hours has drawn heavy criticism in the trucking world. Maritime and intermodal industry officials are raising alarms that the proposed federal hours-of-service rules for domestic U.S. truck drivers could complicate movement of international maritime freight through U.S. ports, rail yards and terminals.…
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Trucking Accident Cases
Crosley Law Firm handles a multitude of trucking cases every year. These are usually cases where a driver of a much smaller passenger vehicle has been on the losing end of a crash with an 18‑wheeler. In one case our firm is currently handling, we discovered that the company safety director knew very little about…
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Corporations Fear the Right Truck Accident Attorney
Circadian rhythms make a 24-hour work schedule utterly unnatural for humans. However, with more truck drivers preferring to drive during off-peak hours to avoid traffic, fatigue is a huge problem. Drivers travelling alone, like the majority of truck drivers, are over 80% more likely to get drowsy behind the wheel than drivers with passengers. New…
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Truck Accident Settlements on the Rise
According to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, every year more than 4,000 people are killed in accidents involving trucks. Nearly 40% of these fatalities are due to driver fatigue. This equates to over 1500 lives that could have easily been saved if truck drivers and their companies were more stringent on rest requirements. Fifty-six…