The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recorded 179 fatalities involving large trucks in Georgia in 2016, with only two of those deaths being truck occupants themselves; the rest were people in other vehicles, bicyclists, or pedestrians. In Gwinnett County that same year, seven people died in large truck crashes. Dermer Appel Ruder, LLC represents victims of these collisions from its Norcross office in Gwinnett County.
Nationally, the same NHTSA data showed 475,000 commercial truck accidents in 2016, with about 104,000 causing injuries and 3,864 proving fatal. The firm attributes many of these crashes to driver error, including corner-cutting under pressure to meet delivery schedules, and works to establish liability against both the driver and the trucking company when negligence contributed to a wreck. Trucking companies and their employees must follow hundreds of rules under the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration as well as Georgia’s own state-specific statutes, covering everything from cargo loading to driver rest requirements, and Dermer Appel Ruder says its attorneys focus on identifying which of those rules were broken in a given crash.
Dermer Appel Ruder pursues compensation for medical expenses, lost income, and other losses tied to a truck accident injury, and the firm’s practice touches on hours-of-service compliance as part of evaluating whether a trucking company’s own rules were followed. The firm is located at 708 Holcomb Bridge Rd, Norcross, GA 30071, and can be reached at (404) 892-8884 for a free consultation.
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