Benji is a professional chef, and he is passionate about his calling. He and his wife worked hard to purchase a piece of property outside of Longview, Washington. They were making plans to build a there home for themselves and their young son. In an instant, everything changed. Surviving a log truck collision On [...]
Why has there been so many high-profile semi crashes in the Seattle metro area lately? Here's a sample of what we found in just the last few weeks in King County and Pierce County. On April 5, a truck driver was killed when his vehicle's brakes failed on a downhill slope in Tacoma, forcing [...]
We help people who are hurt or killed in truck crashes, and these are some of the most common types of crashes that we see. A head-on crash occurs when a driver moves into oncoming traffic, creating an unavoidable collision with the front of the vehicle. Example: A semi-truck driver [...]
Interviewing lawyers for a truck crash case? It's complicated. First, you should know that truck is just a faster way of saying commercial motor vehicle. Truck crash cases are the result of crashes with semi-trucks, garbage trucks, flatbeds, heavy equipment—vehicles a driver needs a special license to operate. To find the best lawyer for your [...]
In dark hours of an early winter morning, truckers are eager to miss rush hour traffic as they are headed out on their routes. Dispatchers advised that a winter weather advisory was expected. The temperature hovered right around freezing on the east side of the Snoqualmie Pass. It was just before 5 a.m. when [...]
Every year around this time, I think about the Wright family—and the head-on, high-speed semi-truck crash that almost killed them at Christmas. The family was on their way to a Christmas party when the family vehicle was struck head-on by a semi-truck and trailer, at full highway speed. Two of the family members suffered serious injuries. [...]