Atlanta Personal Injury Attorney Blog

Truck drivers are tasked with operating huge and powerful vehicles. With this responsibility comes the expectation that drivers will drive safely, comply with state and federal regulations and obey traffic laws. When truckers fail to do this, the consequences of their negligence can be catastrophic.

Because of the size and weight of commercial-sized vehicles, the damage that they cause in a truck accident is often horrific. Other vehicles that are hit by a truck are typically totaled and the people inside the car do not always survive the crash. The victims of these accidents often have no way to avoid getting hit by a truck, but there are ways to make sure a negligent trucker or trucking company is held accountable for the accident. 

With summer right around the corner, students all across Georgia will be out of school and spending their days relaxing with friends or heading out to summer jobs. This means that there are likely to be many young drivers out on the road during times when they were previously in school. With increased traffic levels and frustrations behind the wheel can come an increase is dangerous decisions on the road.

This is why Georgia police officers are cracking down on citing drivers for reckless driving behavior before they end up causing a serious car accident. During the summer, people should be more relaxed, but sadly, summer is a time of year when officers say that car crashes and dangerous driving are unfortunately common. 

No one expects to get injured in a car accident, especially when they are simply going about their daily routine. One minute, a person may be stuck in a traffic jam on their way to work or school and the next minute, a tragic accident could happen. Sadly, serious wrecks can happen in an instant to anyone and sometimes there is no way that a person can avoid a catastrophic or fatal car accident.

This does not mean that an accident is inevitable, however. A victim may not be able to escape injury in an accident, but there may be ways in which a negligent party could have avoided causing an accident. Authorities can generally discover that an accident could have been avoided in the first place, but too often these answers come after a person has been killed in a crash. This may be the case in a recent Georgia car accident.

People all across Georgia enjoy heading out for a walk on any given day. Whether it is simply to enjoy the weather, to walk a pet or just to get from one place to another, there are thousands of pedestrians on the road every year. Unfortunately, many of these people end up getting seriously injured in a pedestrian accident.

In fact, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that of the 34,000 traffic fatalities that occur each year, about 4,000 of them involve a pedestrian. Many of these accidents happen because of a negligent driver who is distracted or refuses to share the road responsibly with a pedestrian. Because people who are walking or jogging are much less protected than people in a motor vehicle, it is often the pedestrian who suffers the brunt of the damage in a collision.