Bryan College Station, Texas Trucking Accident Lawyer

At O'Hanlon, McCollom & Demerath, our attorneys have represented numerous clients injured by reckless and negligent truck drivers. We have the expertise necessary to evaluate and analyze trucking accidents and the strategies with which to successfully fight for the rights of our injured clients.

Causes of Trucking Accidents

When trucks are traveling or loaded in an unsafe manner, trucking accidents can occur that causing devastating injuries to other drivers. Some trucks on today's roads are driven by inexperienced or fatigued drivers or drivers under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

Nevertheless, National Transportation Safety Board statistic show that the most trucking accidents occur under typical safe roadways conditions, and don't involve drugs or alcohol. At O'Hanlon, McCollom & Demerath, our Texas trucking accident attorneys recognize negligence in all of its forms, not just impairment.

Trucking Accidents Occur with Alarming Frequency

These frequency that these tragic and life changing accidents occur at is simply alarming. Often they occur because truck drivers are pushed by their employers to drive longer hours and distances than allowed by federal safety regulations. Many of these overworked drivers drive aggressively or at unsafe speeds, or become desensitized to the deadly risk they create for the average automobile occupants with whom they share the roadway. Those circumstances can cause a serious, potentially life-threatening 18 wheeler crash.

For a free consultation with a Texas trucking accident lawyer about your legal rights and options, please contact us.