New York Truck Accident Facts by Personal Injury Lawyer

Truck accidents such as those involving 18 wheeler tractor trailers turn out as fatal accidents on the roads. An average loaded commercial truck can weigh from 55,000 to 80,000 pounds whereas an automobile weighs around 3,000 pounds.
The huge size of trucks combined with driver inattention, fatigue, work pressure, longer working hours lead to accidents.

Following are some of the causes of truck accidents:-

- Lack of Truck Driving Training

- Overloaded and Oversized Trucks

- Oversized Trucks

- Faulty brakes of the trucks

- Poor driving conditions due to smoke, fog, snow, or rain

- Lack of experience on the part of Truck driver

- Fatigued, sleepy or over worked driver driving too long and too many hours without rest;

- Driving over the speeding limit

- Running off the road

- Aggressive driving

- Driving under influence of drugs or alcohol

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