Decatur Truck Accident Lawyer

Do you need a truck accident lawyer after being involved in a highway crash with a big rig? Call immediately. We provide strong legal representation and fight to get compensation for victims.

Call us at 404-289-6637 to hire a truck accident lawyer.
We give you a free initial consultation.

A truck accident lawyer may be able to recover the damages to help you deal with the long-term injuries and complications that result from these types of crashes. Half a million of these occur every year and more than 4,000 people die as a result.

The commercial carrier industry earned more than $600 billion in 2010. Revenues are expected to double by 2015. This growth is good news for the industry but bad news for automobile drivers on all U.S. roads, who are confronted with more trucks, bad driving of truck drivers, and poorly maintained equipment.

A truck accident lawyer can work with clients who have suffered these types of injuries in crashes:

• Spinal cord damage
• Slight or severe brain damage
• Migraines
• Concussions
• Broken bones
• Lost limbs
• Skin burns
• Call us to discuss the injuries you suffered

A truck accident lawyer can help clients whose cases involve many different causes of truck accidents:
Too many hours of service – Driving for continuous hours on end without taking a break or getting enough rest. Many semi drivers fall asleep at the wheel, or lose focus while driving as they do not get enough sleep and rest.

Intoxicated drivers - A driver who gets behind the wheel of a big rig after drinking is not in control of their judgment, their reaction time is much slower, and their attention and focus are impaired.

Driver error – This includes reckless driving, speeding, lane cutting, and failure to follow emergency stopping procedures. Also, some drivers are not trained properly.

Substandard inspections – Some companies send out substandard or defective equipment with their drivers, putting both their employees and the innocent drivers around them at undue risk.

Longer combination vehicles - Longer combination vehicles, commonly called "LCVs", are tractor-trailer combinations with two or more trailers that may exceed 80,000 pounds of gross vehicle weight.

Hazardous materials – These include combustible liquids, corrosive liquids, explosives, flammables, compressed gases and aerosol cans.

A truck accident lawyer can also investigate load issues. Crashes can be caused by overloaded trailers or improper loading or stacking of cargo. This is a problem that happens quite often on highways. Improper loading can actually be dangerous for semi drivers as well. A semi driver can easily be killed or seriously injured if he or she stops and the shifted load comes through the semi cab.

Therefore, a truck accident lawyer can sue the company that loaded the truck, not just the driver and the tractor trailer company, because a crash with a tractor trailer carrying a heavy load can cause severe injuries.

Tractor trailer accidents don’t just happen when they are moving. If one is parked on the side of the road with no flares used and no flashing lights turned on by the truck operator, a driver can ram their car into the backside of the semi, causing severe injuries. The size of an 18-wheeler is so enormous that passenger cars usually do not stand a chance in a collision.

Call us at 404-289-6637 to hire a truck accident lawyer.
Schedule a free initial consultation.

Call us when you need a truck accident lawyer in Decatur, Atlanta, Stone Mountain, Lithonia, Clarkston, Lawrenceville, Snellville, , Jonesboro and throughout the state of Georgia. The discussion of compensation or benefits on this web page is for informational purposes only and does not promise an outcome of any future cases handled by Scott, Scott & Scott.