Truck Accidents

Truck accidents kill or injure thousands of people every year in the United States. The truck accident attorneys at Benson, Bertoldo, Baker, & Carter have represented many victims of truck accidents in the Las Vegas area – pedestrians, car drivers, their passengers, and truck operators. Large trucks (those having a gross weight of more than 10,000 pounds) include:

Fatalities in Truck Accidents

Not only are large trucks responsible for a large share of U.S. traffic deaths based on miles traveled (more than 10% of all traffic fatalities); the vast majority of the fatalities in vehicle-large truck collisions are occupants of the passenger vehicle.

Las Vegas and Nevada Truck Accident Rates

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), there were 51 large truck accidents in Nevada in 2006, a number that has been steadily increasing in past years. About two-thirds of all truck accidents occur in rural areas, and Nevada's vast rural geography with hundreds of miles of roads and interstate freeways provides ample opportunities for serious, even fatal truck crashes.

Many Types of Large Truck Accidents

In about one-quarter of the truck accidents, a truck hits the back end of a non-truck, a non-truck hits the back of a truck, or one truck hits another truck from behind. Other common scenarios for large truck accidents in the Las Vegas area are categorized by the Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration as:

  • Truck ran off road/out of lane
  • Side swipes
  • Rollovers
  • Turning across path/into path
  • Intersecting vehicles, straight paths
  • Head-on collisions
  • Hit object in road
  • No impact (fire, jackknife, other)
  • Backing into other vehicle

Contact Our Truck Accident Attorneys

If you or someone you love was injured in a truck accident, contact the Las Vegas truck accident lawyers at Benson, Bertoldo, Baker, & Carter to discuss your case and your legal options. You may be eligible for financial compensation for your losses.