Tractor-Trailer May Cause Fatal Accidents Due to Inadequate Underride Guards, Even at Low Speeds
Amongst all accidents, which occupants of passenger vehicles are involved, tractor-trailer is amongst the deadliest of all. Little progress has been made regardless of an increase in regulation with the trucking industry and improvement of passenger vehicle safety standards. While they have helped reduce some accidents, the accidents still run amuck. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety recently conducted a series of crash tests, which indicated has a lot of things to change towards the prevention of passenger vehicles being trapped under tractor-trailers.
Georgia car accident lawyers have been representing numerous trucking accidents, in which those have been injured. While being particularly difficult, commercial trucking litigation requires a thorough understanding and knowledge of trucking industry practices and regulations. Our attorneys have the expertise, experience, and commitment that are required in trucking accident litigation to get you the best possible result in your case.
The improvement of crash standards for passenger vehicles are risen enough that that a vehicle can crash, at 35 mph, into a stationary object, without causing serious injuries to the occupants of the vehicle. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has recently stated that its crash tests, which simulate similarly to that of an accident involving a tractor-trailer, has a higher likelihood of leading to serious injuries, which include, but are not limited to fatalities and decapitations of vehicle occupants. Basically, the inadequacy of underride guards on commercial trucks is completely unacceptable. When a car crashes, the vehicle’s occupant cabin is instantly crushed when the tractor-trailer body crashes through the cabin.
There are two broad categories when it comes to flaws within tractor-trailer underride guards. One flaw is due to the guards no covering enough area around the under carriage. Another defect within the guards is the lack of safety standards in regards to how the guard is actually secured on vehicles. However, some types of underride guards were found to be basically defective when traveling at reasonably low speeds due to hardwiring of the instillation holding the actual guardrail in place, which gave way during collision tests.
Surveys found that 78 percent of accidents that were surveyed, involved the passenger of a vehicle was involved in an accident that a tractor-trailer was present to some degree. 82 percent of trucking accidents state a death, of entire front end of a vehicle, or worse, the whole car, was a result from a slide beneath a truck.
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