A 17-year-old driver was injured in a Phoenix truck accident involving a Honda Accord and a large truck According to a news report in The Arizona Republic, the truck accident occurred at the intersection of 20th Street and Dobbins Road in Phoenix. The crash is still under investigation, but it appears that the large truck may have crossed the centerline and struck the teen’s car. The 17-year-old victim had to be extricated from the Accord because the truck ended up on top of it. It is not clear how hurt the young victim was, but he was taken to the hospital as an immediate trauma patient.
Arizona Statute 28-731 states: “If a highway is divided into two roadways by leaving an intervening space or by a physical barrier or clearly indicated dividing section constructed to impede vehicular traffic, a person shall drive a vehicle only on the right-hand roadway and shall not drive a vehicle over, across or within the dividing space, barrier or section.”
Negligent truck drivers and their employers may be held liable for the damages they cause if the injured victim chooses to file a personal injury claim. A successful civil lawsuit can hold a negligent truck driver liable for damages including medical bills, past and future suffering, lost wages and cost of rehabilitation.
The skilled truck driver negligence attorneys in Phoenix at The Breyer Law Offices P.C protect the rights of injured Arizona truck accident victims and their families. Proving fault and liability in a truck accident can be challenging. Our attorneys request and preserve important information such as truck driver and maintenance logs, which can serve as significant pieces of evidence and often help determine what caused a major injury truck accident. If you or a loved one has been injured in an Arizona truck accident, please contact us at 602-457-6222 for a free and comprehensive consultation.
By Truck Accident Attorney on March 11, 2010 -
Top Arizona trucking lawyers are well aware of the dangers of driver fatigue. However, far too many people take the approach that it is expected that drivers will simply violate these hours and that it is not a big deal. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Lives are destroyed when truck drivers drive over the hours that are allowed to them under federal law. These federal regulations were not created randomly. They have been created over a period of many years with the input of many different people all of whom have helped form these regulations for the protection of innocent people on the roadways. Simply excusing truck drivers for “making a living” ignores the inherent danger of what they do. We applaud those who work hard as over the road truck drivers. They should not be attacked for doing a good job. They have a right to earn a living and should do so. However, to drive while tired, drive while fatigued, and to put yourself in a position as a truck driver where you severely increase the likelihood of killing an innocent person on the road ways should not be acceptable, ever.
Experienced tractor trailer Arizona collision attorneys will not put up with this type of behavior and simply settle the case as though it is a situation of simple negligence. The best trucking accident lawyers in Arizona will always do everything they can to find out not just what was in the truck driver’s log book, but to dig deeper into the electronic data that is now available both in the trucker’s black box within the truck as well as the data that is available that follows the truckers in many situations to put together and piece together whether or not a truck driver was lying in their log book and in fact was driving well over the federal regulation time limits allowed.
If you or anybody you know has been a victim of an over the road, big rig 18 wheeler truck driving accident, please do not hesitate to give us a call. We are happy to explain your rights to you and what could, and should, be done to make sure that innocent people on the roadways are protected from drivers that put their profits ahead of the safety of innocent individuals.
