Truck Accidents

An elderly Petaluma couple was killed last Friday when their BMW was hit by a semi-truck. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the trucker who slammed into the couple head-on claims to have been choking on food at the time of the accident.

Construction sites invariably rely on large trucks, defined as those with a gross vehicle weight rating over 10,000 pounds, to pour concrete and move heavy materials. The presence of large trucks puts motorists in passenger vehicles at a greater risk for truck accidents, and accidents involving large trucks can be more likely to result in

  In our last post we discussed the relationship between truck accidents and the holidays. Truck accidents may be more common during the holiday season, but these crashes can occur at any time and any place.

Truck accidents tend to cause more injuries and property damage due to their greater size. They also tend to increase over the holidays because of the increase in the number of trucks on the road during this period. Truck accident statistics for Southern California are readily available from the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, or