Hello World! Welcome Friends! If you’ve ever been in a car accident, you know they’re not much fun. They’re usually scary and jarring, and you can sustain serious injuries when they occur. You can also damage your car severely, and that costs money to repair.
You can always contact a competent Wyoming personal injury lawyer if you live in the state and you get in a traffic accident. You must handle the situation differently if a car hits you or a truck does, though.
We’ll talk about some of the critical differences between car and truck accidents right now. For the sake of this article, let’s make it clear that we’re talking about accidents with commercial trucks and not personal trucks that non-commercial motorists own.
Trucks Are Much Bigger and Heavier than Cars
The biggest difference between a commercial truck hitting you and getting sideswiped or T-boned by a car is that the truck is so much bigger and heavier. If you have ever seen one of the gigantic 18-wheelers barreling down the highway, you know how formidable these vehicles look.
A commercial truck hitting you is liable to cause way more damage than a fender bender with a car. It’s possible that a commercial truck might merely nudge you. In that case, your vehicle may not sustain that much damage.
If that happens, then you were lucky. So many collisions between cars and commercial trucks leave the car driver or passengers dead or with catastrophic injuries.
Determining Who Was at Fault May Be More Difficult
Another difference between a car hitting you and a commercial truck hitting you is that determining who was at fault if the truck hits you may be more difficult. Maybe you feel the truck driver was negligent in some way. It may seem like a simple matter to sue the truck driver in court if that becomes necessary after the accident.
However, was the truck driver really to blame? Maybe they lost control of the vehicle because of a mechanical problem.
If that was the case, then the entity you may have to sue is the trucking company who was supposed to be responsible for maintaining the vehicle. If you need to pursue a lawsuit after a commercial truck accident, you’ll have to determine whether the driver, the trucking company, or some other entity was at fault.
Different Blind Spots
Some commercial truck accidents also happen because of a reason that you don’t usually see with cars. This reason relates to the blind spots that commercial trucks have, and cars do not.
Regular cars have just one blind spot, to the driver’s immediate left, around the vehicle’s midpoint. Most drivers know to check that blind spot before changing lanes.
Commercial trucks have several blind spots, including directly behind and directly ahead of the vehicle. As a car’s driver, you might have a commercial truck hit you because you were in one of its blind spots without realizing.
Contacting a lawyer is often necessary following a commercial truck accident.
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