Drinking and driving is never okay. Getting behind the wheel of a large truck after you have been drinking is inexcusable. Yet, in 2017 there were 841 drunk driving deaths in Florida, accounting for 26 percent of all traffic fatalities. The majority of drunk drivers are drivers of passenger vehicles, but that’s not always the …
According to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), one third of accidents between heavy trucks and passenger vehicles occur in a truck’s blind spot. Responsible for regulating the trucking industry, the FMSCA created a public awareness initiative to alert all drivers about the dangers of blind spots, which they refer to as No-Zones. All …
Semi-trucks carry the goods we need and want throughout Florida and throughout the nation. Semi drivers and their employers are held to higher standards than the average passenger vehicle driver, but even with more training and higher expectations, accidents still occur. Truck accidents typically result in more property damage, more severe injuries, and a higher …
From Damaging Our Psyche to Damaging a Personal Injury Case, Social Media Can Have Some Serious Downfalls We are almost all guilty of it by now: using social media in a near obsessive way. And as we have all probably known, or at least had a feeling, it turns out that social media could have …
Truck driver fatigue is a leading cause of truck accidents. As many as 13 percent of commercial truck drivers are fatigued at the time of a crash, according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA)’s Large Truck Crash Causation Study. The FMCSA notes that truck driver fatigue can result from inadequate sleep, lengthy hours …
Florida was one of the top 10 states in the United States for the number of fatal truck accidents occurring on its roads from 2014 to 2016, according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA). Unfortunately, trucks are involved in 2.4 percent of all car accidents. Trucks, however, do a disproportionate amount of damage …
Every day you get in the car, chances are you will encounter a speeding driver during your trip. Speeding has become so commonplace that most of the time we don’t even give a second thought to someone that is traveling above the speed limit. But speeding is one of the most dangerous habits on the …
How many truck accidents are caused by mechanical failure? It’s difficult to get an exact count, but according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA)’s Large Truck Crash Causation Study, 10 percent of all truck accidents are caused by the vehicle itself (that is, not by the driver’s actions or the environment, such as …
The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) estimates 41 percent of traffic collisions result in one or more injuries for drivers and passengers involved. Florida is a so-called no-fault insurance state, in which all drivers must carry their own mandatory personal injury protection (PIP) policy to recover damages. In some accidents, however, …
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