Fortunately, not all motor vehicle accidents lead to serious injuries. Some crashes are minor fender benders that occur when two vehicles traveling at relatively low speeds collide. Lower traveling speeds mean less momentum than high-speed crashes, thus reducing the...
When looking at truck accidents, you’ll find a portion of them every year that qualify as underride accidents. This is when a car or a small vehicle collides with the truck’s trailer in such a way that it can fit at least partially underneath the trailer. In fact, if...
Tanker trucks are seen on interstates around the country each day. These very large trucks transport gasoline, milk, and other liquids. The truckers who drive them have some very special considerations to think about when they’re on the road. Truckers must put safety...
The holidays come with fancy meals and gift-giving traditions, which cause increased risk while you are out on the road. In addition to drunk drivers and winter weather, there will also be more commercial traffic. People ordering gifts directly to their houses forces...
The safety concerns associated with big commercial trucks are different than those that come from smaller vehicles. Big trucks take longer to speed up and stop. They perform awkward maneuvers and wide turns. Commercial trucks can also cause unique kinds of crashes...
Driving a large truck is a special responsibility since the greater weight and mass of a commercial truck can cause a devastating auto accident. You may wonder if trucking companies have made headway in diminishing the number of fatal truck crashes that occur on...
Particularly for newer drivers, sharing the road with commercial vehicles is intimidating. Commercial vehicles handle differently and have more mass than traditional passenger vehicles. While the operators of commercial vehicles have a large amount of responsibility...
It may be easy for people in Mississippi to feel intimidated by the many large semi-trucks and tractor-trailers they see on the roads. Yet whatever they might feel is often tempered by the assumption that those driving these massive vehicles are highly skilled and...
The amount of damage and injury caused by a semi truck can be particularly devastating. Since companies ship so many products across state lines on big trucks, it is nearly impossible to avoid encountering a big truck on the road. Figuring out how deadly truck crashes...
Semi-trucks and other large commercial vehicles routinely make their way along the roads, highways and freeways of Mississippi. The extreme size and weight of these vehicles may present significant risks to others if and when an accident occurs with one of these big...
