INJURED BY A TRUCK IN A PENNSYLVANIA CAR ACCIDENT: THE TRUCK STOPS HERE
A Philadelphia Pennsylvania truck accident case history: Your loved one is injured in a catastrophic accident with a 16-wheeler. An “eyewitness”, another trucker, says he saw the whole thing and your loved one was at fault, because he ran the red light and the trucker, who he says was not speeding, couldn’t avoid the accident.
Years ago, this could have been all the evidence the defendant insurance company would need to win the case and avoid paying a huge damage award. In wrongful death cases depriving the widow, with or without children, of just compensation for their loss.
Modern technology and computers today have changed the rules of the game.
The flight recorders we have heard about so many times and for so many years in fatal airplane crashes also have their counterparts in trucks. In fact, they have been around for a number of years but kept quiet by local and national trucker’s associations, including here in the Philadelphia, five-county area and New Jersey.
But now, the Truck (BUCK) stops here with the skills and knowledge of the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania injury lawyers at Pomerantz Perlberger and Lewis.
Trucking companies are required by the National Safety Boards as well as local authorities in Pennsylvania and New Jersey to maintain records of the mileage, maintenance, inspections, speed monitors, governor settings, time of brake depression, travel distance from the moment of deceleration, and incremental braking data. This enables the experts in the field to prove that the trucker was going too far above the speed limit under applicable road conditions when he began applying his brakes. This computer generated information stored in the “black box” of a truck, will now prove that the witness in our above fact pattern was mistaken or biased in support of his fellow trucker.
In my next BLOG, we will provide an actual case where our Philadelphia car accident attorneys overcame facts strikingly similar to the case history above, reaching a multimillion dollar settlement, despite potentially damaging testimony of three eyewitnesses on the scene.
If you or a loved one is in an accident with a truck in Pennsylvania or New Jersey, you must know that TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE! A prompt investigation must be accomplished quickly before things are “innocently” moved, tampered with or destroyed.
Call Pomerantz Perlberger and Lewis EMERGENCY NUMBER CALL 267 255 7229 anytime day or night. It might save the day for your family.
