Many experts suggest parents sign driver agreements with their teen drivers to prevent car and truck accidents. If you live in an area where your teen will be driving on the highways around trucks, especially, it’s important to ensure your teen is making the right choices on the road and…
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Human Factors and Truck Accidents in Homestead
One argument for self-driving trucks is that many trucking accidents are caused by human errors and human factors. Whether you agree with the idea of self-driving trucks or not, there’s no doubt that on-the-road mistakes made by passenger car and truck drivers do lead to collisions. The most common human…
What Causes Truck Accidents in Hollywood and Other Communities – and How Can These Incidents be Prevented?
Although commercial trucks and buses represent only 4% of all registered vehicles on the road, they account for 13% of all accidents and 13% of road crash deaths. These collisions, due to the size of trucks, cause devastating injury and even fatalities. Pedestrians, bicyclists, and passenger car drivers have little…
Factors That Could Increase Your Chances of a Trucking Accident
Are you at risk for a trucking accident in Homestead or your South Florida community? You could be, especially if you have the following risk factors: 1) Being in an unfamiliar location. Safety experts agree that driving in unfamiliar locations can increase your chances of a traffic collision. While you…
What Truck Drivers are Doing to Stay Safer on the Roads
Truck drivers in Hollywood, Miami, and other communities in South Florida have a big responsibility: they need to deliver cargo safely and on time while taking steps to drive safely. Truck drivers often have to drive on unfamiliar roads and share the road with much smaller vehicles. In some cases,…
Teaching Your Teens To Share the Road with Trucks
New drivers and young drivers face a number of obstacles in the first few years of driving. They may still be developing their skills and in some cases they may face peer pressure from friends to take risks behind the wheel. In addition, some teen drivers haven’t yet found their…
Car Drivers, Human Error, and Trucking Crashes
Many truck and car accidents in Hialeah and other Florida communities are caused by human error. Human error can involve failing to check blind spots, making a mistake when changing lanes, or braking suddenly. Drivers and other cars may make decisions that cause you to be involved in a trucking…
Truck Driver Error and Trucking Collisions
According to the truck industry, the majority of truck accidents in Homestead and other communities occur due to passenger car drivers. In fact, in many car and truck accidents, the car drivers blamed. Even though it’s true that truck drivers have extensive training and have to be carefully tested to…
Parked Truck Collisions
Many truck crashes in Hollywood and Florida take place when a truck is in motion. This can be especially devastating if a truck is speeding or driving at high speeds on a freeway, since the force of the collision can cause serious injuries. However, even a parked truck can be…
When Emergency Trucks are Involved in Accidents in Miami and Florida
Emergency vehicles, including trucks, race to the scene of car accidents, fires, and other emergencies. The brave men and women in these trucks work hard to save lives and often put their lives at risk in order to do so. If you are in a truck or car collision, first…