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Trucks can get into front, rear, and side-impact crashes just like any other cars can. There are, however, certain types of truck accidents in North Carolina that can only happen to trucks or that are significantly more likely to involve trucks. These accidents can be deadly for truckers, as well as for motorists in passenger vehicles who are involved in the crashes.

Three Serious Types of Truck Accidents

Three of the most common types of accidents that only or primarily affect trucks include rollover accidents, underride accidents, and jackknife accidents. Truck drivers have to be aware of these kinds of collisions, as well as their common causes, so drivers can avoid doing things that increase the risk of one of these serious accidents.

Rollover accidents usually happen when a trucker loses control of a truck. This is especially likely to occur as a truck goes around a curve, when centrifugal force causes the truck to naturally lean away from the curve. If a driver takes the curve too fast, the truck can end up tipping right over. Trucks are more likely than cars to rollover because trucks have a high center of gravity and are top-heavy.  The risk is even graver if there is an unbalanced load.  A paper from National Highway Traffic Safety Administration indicated an estimated 18 percent of truck accidents involved trucks rolling over and around 35 percent of fatal truck crashes involved rollovers.

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Law Offices of Richard Flexner
3805 Oleander Drive
Wilmington, NC 28403
Phone: 910-794-3221
Fax: 910-794-3144
Toll Free: 800-353-9637

If you’re driving by an 18-wheeler carrying a full load, you might be safer than if you’re passing a big rig with an empty trailer.

According to a recent study in Australia, researchers found that trucks with empty trailers pose a risk of a rollover crash due to handling problems related to “trailer sway.” Furthermore, truck drivers are relatively inexperienced in handling a big rig with an empty trailer, according to researchers.

Curtin-Monash Accident Research Centre in Western Australia released the findings, according to a report in Phys.org. While the research was conducted down under, our attorneys in Bucks County and Philadelphia hope trucking companies across the United States consider the findings and look for ways to avoid accidents involving tractor-trailers with empty loads.

It’s critical for truck drivers and their employers to put safety first – always. As experienced attorneys who have handled truck accidents, we know that collisions between small cars and heavy commercial vehicles are among the most serious road crashes. Occupants of the smaller cars often are seriously injured or die as a result of the impact. A fully loaded trailer can weigh as much as 80,000 pounds. Big rigs, even when they’re unloaded, weigh on average about 30,000 pounds.  Regardless of whether the truck is loaded or empty, the forces involved in a crash with a small, 4,000 pound vehicle are significant, and the smaller vehicle will bear the brunt of the damage.

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Flager & Associates
One Northbrook Corporate Center
1210 Northbrook Drive, Ste. 280
Feasterville-Trevose, PA 19053
Phone: (215) 953-5200
Fax: (215) 953-5214

When a doctor is faced with disciplinary action, aggressive medical license defense becomes necessary to try to protect his license and avoid adverse consequences. Unfortunately, sometimes the actions of state disciplinary boards are improper, as medical boards may sometimes aggressively go after people who have not really done anything wrong. Threat of facing disciplinary action can have a chilling effect on the practice of medicine, particularly for doctors in certain fields like pain management where there is ample room for accusations of wrongdoing to be made.

Doctor’s Case Shows The Problem of Aggressive Disciplinary Action

Press of Atlantic City illustrates one of the big problems which can occur when accusations are made against doctors based on uncertain indicators of wrongdoing.

In this case, one of two local pain management specialists in a local county found himself fighting for his future. The doctor had practiced medicine between 1976 and 2007, and his practice had more than 1,300 patients at one point.

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