The Cochran Firm Legal Blog

In recent years, trucking companies have increased their efforts to prevent or at least diminish the number of truck accidents. They have increased safety training and awareness for their truck drivers in a campaign to accomplish this.

However, most truckers have tight delivery deadlines. If you work in an office and you are at risk of missing a deadline, you work faster and longer hours. If you are driving a truck and you are at risk of missing a delivery deadline, you drive faster. This too often leads to an accident.

Truck accidents are responsible for serious injuries including spinal cord injuries, head and neck injuries, broken bones and many deaths. Trucks carry large and sometimes dangerous cargo loads. Truck drivers work very long hours, leading to stress and fatigue caused accidents. In a startling statistic, over 94% of occupants in a vehicle involved in a truck accident were either injured or killed.

If you live in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina or the surrounding area and you or someone you care about was injured or killed in an accident involving a truck, please contact an experienced truck accident attorney at The Cochran Firm's Raleigh-Durham office today to schedule a confidential consultation at no cost to you to learn about your legal rights and whether you are entitled to compensation for your losses.

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