National Truck Accident Stats Part 2 | Truck Accident Attorney NYC

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Truck Accidents: The Car Driver’s Perspective (Part 2)

Fewer than 9 percent of all annual U.S. traffic accidents involve commercial vehicles. But the loss of life to truck drivers, all types of passengers and drivers of non-commercial vehicles is of grave concern. Although drivers of commercial and non-commercial vehicles are jointly responsible for traffic safety, the great majority of accidents are caused by non-commercial drivers.

Some of the unsafe acts committed by car drivers in the presence of large trucks include:

• Allowing insufficient time and distance when changing lanes in front of a truck.
• Driving in those areas where truck drivers have limited visibility, generally behind and beside large vehicles.
• Merging abruptly into traffic and causing the truck to have to maneuver or brake too quickly.
• Unsafe passing with insufficient headway.
• Moving to the right of a truck that is making a right turn.
• Making a left turn while misjudging the speed of a truck approaching an intersection.
• Insufficient acceleration while pulling into traffic in front of a truck.
• Driving between large trucks.
• Failure to speed up or slow down when a truck begins to merge or change lanes.
• Being blown off course by air turbulence of cross-wind when passing trucks.

Of those who suffer fatalities in accidents with trucks, 78 percent are occupants of other vehicles, 8 percent are non-occupants and 15 percent are occupants of a large truck. Thus, the vast majority of deaths occur among insured car drivers and their passengers–like many of us.

by Ruth Stern, Esq. for The ORLOW Firm