According to government statistics, accidents involving large trucks cased 106 deaths and 1,200 serious injuries in Virginia in 2005, and over 140,000 fatal and non-fatal crashes nationwide. A large truck or tractor-trailer accident can not only cause devastating injuries, but can also pose far more complex legal challenges than most automobile accident cases. For this reason, you need an experienced truck accident lawyer. Prompt investigation of large truck accidents and a thorough understanding of the federal regulations which control the trucking industry are crucial to winning and maximizing the monetary recovery on these cases.
Michael Phelan specializes in representing people injured by truck accidents and has a thorough understanding of the applicable state and federal laws and the federal regulations governing the truck industry. You can find the Federal Motor Crisis Regulations here.
A review of these regulations shows why prompt investigation of large truck accidents is crucial to winning truck accident cases. You can count on the fact that soon after the dust from the crash settles the truck company or its insurer will send its investigator to the crash scene to interview witnesses and collect forensic evidence found in the road, captured by the truck's data recording systems, or entered in the driver's logs. Unfortunately, the federal regulations require the truck company to retain some of this crucial information for only six months. Moreover, some drivers keep two sets of driver's logs, one of which is bogus.
This is why fast action on your behalf is necessary. The sooner you contact the
law offices of Michael Phelan the sooner we can send our trained investigators and experts to investigate the accident, and the sooner we can take steps to preserve the evidence in the possession of the trucking company.
We represent auto accident and truck accident victims, and sufferers of brain injury due to accident throughout the country and the Commonwealth of Virginia, including, Richmond, Petersburg, Portsmouth, Norfolk, Newport News, Fredericksburg, Henrico, Chesterfield, Fairfax, Louisa, Charlottesville, Roanoke, Harrisonburg, Stafford, Williamsburg, New Kent, Charles City, Hanover, and Goochland.