Truck driving is a demanding job that requires skills and experience to perform safely. Inexperienced truck drivers who lack the necessary qualifications and training to operate large commercial vehicles endanger themselves and everyone sharing the roads with them. This dangerous problem impacts all road users and needs to be addressed. Lack of Training Leads to...
Over the past decade, large truck accidents throughout the country have risen 52% and show no sign of slowing. Last year alone there were approximately 116,000 injuries from commercial vehicle accidents, which changed the victims’ lives without notice. Unfortunately, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation and its annual Fatality Analysis Reporting System, over 4,100 casualties occurred...
Southern California is an important trading center for many different industries. Every year, thousands of commercial trucks travel on Southern California freeways, carrying tons of cargo travel to and from all over the United States. Southern California freeways, particularly the Interstates 10, 210, and 605,as well as State Routes 57, 60, and 110 are regularly...
Several years ago a Forum article was published in the Los Angeles Daily Journal, written by Charlotte Lowell, a defense attorney, who lambasted plaintiff’s attorneys and the tactics they employed on behalf of their clients. The following is Mr. Binder’s reply to that article which the Daily Journal published as a rebuttal. Charlotte Lowell’s recent...
It is no secret that the size of semi-trucks can cause severe injuries when truck driver negligence plays a role in a traffic collision. Distracted or exhausted truck drivers cause thousands of truck crashes each year, and change the lives of the injury victims these serious accidents leave behind. But driver negligence is not the...
At Binder & Associates, our Encino, California truck accident attorneys understand that throughout the United States, commerce relies on the trucking and transportation industry’s ability to work around the clock. Unfortunately, our Los Angeles County personal injury lawyers also know that when drivers suffer from fatigue, their potential to cause an accident is higher than their well-rested counterparts. The...
When most people think of semi-truck accidents, they envision the large, heavy vehicles overturned on the highway, snarling traffic. Since these commercial vehicles spend most of their time making long-haul runs throughout California and the rest of the country, it is often hard to imagine colliding with one in your own neighborhood. Unfortunately, it happens....
A truck driver who apparently suffered a medical emergency while behind the wheel, barrelled through traffic along Valley Boulevard in San Gabriel in late August. The dump truck caused three collisions and injured five people before the driver finally came to a stop. Driver Semi-Conscious Police found the truck driver semi-conscious on a bus bench...
One day after Encino’s new Foothill Extension Service was opened, it was abruptly closed due to a fiery truck melting its tracks. Earlier this year the driver of a westbound tractor trailer traveling on 210 Freeway in Encino lost control at around 2:45am. The truck crashed through a cement median at San Gabriel Boulevard, overturned,...
A recent truck accident left one dead and another injured when a semi-truck ran a red light and crashed into a pickup truck. Instead of stopping to help the accident victims, the semi-trucks driver detached the trailer from the cab and fled the scene. The semi truck’s cab was later found abandoned with no sign...
