California Truck Accident Attorneys
When heavy vehicles – such as semi-trucks, buses, commercial vehicles, garbage haulers, municipal transit vehicles, logging trucks, construction vehicles, and industrial equipment (including Bobcats, LeTourneaus, Caterpillars, Forklifts, Backhoes, Scissor Lifts, Cherry Pickers, Cranes, and Skid Steer Loaders) – collide with ordinary passenger cars, the result can be catastrophic injury or death for the occupants of the automobile. Sometimes these accidents are the result of dangerous or defective roadways. Often, however, they are the result of liability on the part of the trucker, the bus driver, or the company that owns the vehicle.
Defective equipment such as brakes or tires, mechanical failures due to inadequate vehicle maintenance, driving too fast for weather conditions, driving recklessly or distracted, running red lights, driving tired in an effort to meet delivery schedules, driving drunk or on drugs, and driving under conditions of reduced visibility can all establish liability.
Bus accident lawyers at Abramson Smith Waldsmith, LLP, have extensive trial experience representing plaintiffs and their family members in cases of catastrophic injury and wrongful death due to collisions with heavy vehicles. Our attorneys handle cases, including pedestrian accidents cases, related to San Francisco’s cable cars, the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), MUNI, AC Transit, Sam Trams, Golden Gate Transit, Greyhound, and ferries. We represent clients injured by cranes, yarders for cable logging, skidders, stackers, forklifts, and other big logging and construction machinery.
Our law firm has the experience and the resources needed to litigate effectively against large and powerful insurance companies intent on minimizing their losses and their liability. Throughout our personal injury practice, we have earned a nationwide reputation for excellent representation and results. We choose our cases carefully, and give each the full benefit of our experience, our personal attention, our resources, and our access to forensic, engineering and accident-reconstruction experts.
If you or a loved one has suffered serious injury or death in a collision with a truck, bus, or other heavy vehicle, we encourage you to contact our law firm today for skilled and knowledgeable legal counsel.
Here is an example of a case which we settled due to a trucking accident
$800,000 settlement for girl with vertebra and disc injury caused by truck driver who rear-ended a car.
