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Shifted Loads and Flying Cargo: How Improper Loading Causes Truck Wrecks — and Who’s Responsible
When people picture a truck wreck, they picture a collision. But some of the most devastating truck crashes begin with the cargo. A steel coil breaks its chains and comes through a windshield. Lumber or pipe spills across an interstate at 70 miles per hour. Or the danger stays invisible: a load shifts inside a…
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Why a Tractor-Trailer Wreck Is Not Just a Bigger Car Wreck
It is tempting to think of a tractor-trailer wreck as a car wreck with bigger numbers: a bigger vehicle, bigger damage, a bigger insurance policy. But truck cases differ from ordinary car wreck cases a vast number of ways, and in ways that matter: the rules that apply, the evidence that exists, the parties who…
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Truck Underride Crashes: A Deadly Danger Regulators Have Debated for Decades
Modern cars are remarkably good at protecting people. Crumple zones, airbags, and reinforced passenger compartments made of modern high strength materials mean that many highway-speed crashes that would have been fatal a generation ago are now usually survivable. But one kind of crash defeats nearly all of those protections: the underride crash, in which a…
John D. Hadden – Trial Lawyer
Trial & Appellate Lawyer at Penn Law, LLC | Author on Torts and Evidence