If you’ve been involved in a truck accident with Old Dominion Freight Line, navigating the aftermath can be complex. Our team is here to support you through the legal process, ensuring your rights are protected while seeking fair compensation.
Injuries from trucking accidents are almost always more severe than those from accidents involving passenger cars. A personal injury lawyer can tell you that the severity of a trucking accident can increase depending on the type of materials that a truck is hauling. Any trucking accident can result in multiple deaths. The danger only increases if the truck was carrying hazardous materials.
Old Dominion Freight Line has been responsible for multiple trucking accidents over the years. Many of those accidents have involved dangerous chemicals. If you have been injured in an Old Dominion Freight Line accident, Caputo and Van Der Walde – Injury & Accident Attorneys can help you.
The average commercial semi-truck weighs over 10,000 lb. Their drivers travel at 55 mph or over. A large truck is harder to steer than other vehicles. It is also harder to judge things like the distances of cars on the road. A truck needs more time to stop which makes it harder to avoid a crash when another driver pulls out in front of it.
If a truck is improperly loaded, it can cause an accident as well. If a truck is carrying hazardous cargo, and the barrels of the cargo are not secured properly, the chemicals can spill causing a very dangerous situation.
About 11% of truck accidents are fatal. People in passenger vehicles are more likely to die than truck drivers. A total of 4,965 people lost their lives in large-truck crashes in the year 2020, according to the National Safety Council.
Although they may cause many deaths each year, trucking companies and the insurance companies they use are often unwilling to pay grieving families and injured people the money that they deserve.
The average settlement amount for a trucking accident is much higher than it would be for a regular passenger car accident. This is because the injuries are so much more severe. When a trucking accident results in a fatality, the trucking company is often sued for wrongful death. Wrongful death cases against large trucking companies will often result in very high settlements. Juries want to send a message to the trucking company to be safer.
Old Dominion Freight Line is a major trucking company. It has been involved in quite a few major trucking accidents.
Old Dominion trucks were involved in 21 fatal accidents from 2018 to 2021. They had 750 accidents in two years. Plaintiffs in a personal injury case involving an Old Dominion truck were recently awarded $75 million in damages. The company has failed many inspections with The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. The violations include failing sobriety tests, distracted driving, and speeding.
In April of 2018, one of Old Dominion’s semi’s swerved to avoid hitting a pickup truck in an intersection. The Old Dominion tractor-trailer was carrying 20,000 pounds of cargo. The truck was carrying flammable cargo but Old Dominion did not mention that when they called to report the accident. First responders at the scene did not know to protect themselves from the dangerous chemicals. The company violated the law because it had no warning placards on the vehicle. The first responders inhaled chemicals for many hours without knowing it. Old Dominion recently tried to have the amount of the judgment reduced.
If you watch the news, you know that there has been a recent shortage of truck drivers. Trucking companies are struggling to keep fully staffed. They have the same amount of deliveries to make as always if not more. The lack of drivers has contributed to the supply chain crisis in the country. Trucking companies are hiring less qualified drivers and many of those drivers are working long hours. Drowsy driving causes accidents. Supply chain consulting firms do not expect the problem to end soon. This may cause the percentage of trucks involved in accidents to go up.
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