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Truck Accident Attorney in Wichita

Trucking accidents are among the most complex types of personal injury and wrongful death claims a law firm can handle for many reasons:

  • Collisions between passenger vehicles and semis, tractor-trailers, dump trucks and other large commercial vehicles most often result in serious or fatal injuries to passenger vehicle occupants.
  • Commercial trucking is governed by complex state and federal regulations, including hours-of-service rules meant to keep tired truckers off the road. Your chosen trucking accident lawyer in Wichita must understand all of the rules governing truckers and the operation of commercial trucking companies.
  • Trucking companies are insured by some of the nation’s largest insurance companies and protected by veteran legal defense firms.
  • Trucking companies understand the liability and take many steps to protect against personal injury and wrongful death claims. This may include hiring drivers as independent contracts, operating under various limited liability corporations that hold few assets, renting or leasing trucks and contracting maintenance to third-party contractors.

Trucking Accident Liability

The risks of serious and fatal trucking accidents in Wichita has increased in recent years for a number of reasons:

  • A nationwide trucking shortage puts drivers and trucking companies under pressure to make deliveries on time.
  • Trucking companies have addressed the shortage by offering their own training, which in many cases is not as comprehensive as training offered by traditional trucking schools.
  • The Internet economy has put more trucks on the road and more delivery vehicles in neighborhoods, where streets were not designed for such traffic and conflicts with cyclists, walkers and children are more likely to occur.
  • The government has eased a number of training, experience and other safety requirements to deal with supply chain shortages and the shortage of available truck drivers.
  • The industry has consolidated into the hands of fewer and fewer carriers, which are typically run by large corporations with the legal help and resources to fight claims.

When truck drivers are blamed for an accident, the most common reasons include:

  • Alcohol, illegal, or prescription drug use
  • Driver fatigue
  • Driver medical condition
  • Distraction
  • Following too closely
  • Illegal maneuvers
  • Inadequate evasive action
  • Driver stress

While these factors have a lot in common with other types of motor vehicle collisions, the risks are far more serious because truck drivers are on the road up to 14 hours a day, every day, and are entrusted to drive vehicles weighing up to 80,000 pounds alongside passenger vehicles traffic that must share the road.

Government regulations, complex factors of causation, and the likelihood of serious and debilitating injuries, makes early consultation with an experienced truck accident lawyer in Wichita critical when it comes to protecting your rights and the financial wellbeing of you and your family.

The veteran Wichita truck accident lawyers at Riedmiller, Andersen and Scott LLC represent injury victims and their families in Wichita, Kansas and the surrounding areas, including Valley Center, Park City, Kechi, Bel Aire, Eastbourough, Andover, Derby, Newton, El Dorado, Arkansas City, Winfield, Haysville, Goddard and Maize. For a confidential consultation to discuss your rights call 316-648-1369.

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