Causes of Truck Accidents | Pennsylvania Attorney
Pennsylvania Lawyer, Certified Legal Specialist and Mechanical Engineer Evaluating Causes of Truck Accidents
If you are struggling with a serious injury or with the death of a loved one as a result of a truck accident in Pennsylvania, please contact Mikus Law Associates, P.C. to discuss your case with a Board Certified Civil Trial Specialist who is also a mechanical engineer.
Common causes of truck accidents include the following:
- Inadequate training and supervision of truck drivers
- Tired or distracted drivers, resulting from driving longer than permitted by law
- Abuse of drugs used to stay awake (but not necessarily alert) and to combat the monotony of a long haul
- Improperly loaded trucks (oversize loads, over weight loads, improperly secured loads, hazardous loads)
- Inadequate maintenance of tractor brakes, trailer brakes, brake couplings, steering systems, tires, truck coupling systems, lighting systems, mirrors, reflectors, wipers, defrosters, hydraulics and side and rear underride guards may lead to tire blowouts and other equipment failures
- Weather related accidents because drivers are driving in bad weather conditions while trying to meet delivery deadlines
- Defective design of the tractor
- Speeding (often to meet a delivery deadline)
- Aggressive driving
- Misuse of technology in the cab (cell phones, laptop computers, CB-radios, GPS systems) can distract a truck driver
- Inadequate safety systems, reflectors, lights and other warning devices (despite, or in fact because of, its size, a truck trailer can be harder to recognize at night than a typical passenger car)
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