The world seems smaller as the ability to travel and transport goods becomes
more convenient with different types of transportation. The expansion
of products and services encourages industries to use cars, trucks, planes,
trains, and even motorcycles to move products and meet demands efficiently.
Workers and drivers responsible for transporting products across the nation,
and around the globe, often face dangers while on the job. Even trained
professional drivers face uncontrollable conditions such as road hazards,
equipment malfunctions, and harsh weather conditions that may cause additional
transportation accidents. Federal agencies such as the National Transportation Safety Board strive
to protect the road and drivers against many dangers of transportation
accidents. Click
HERE for transportation safety information and to better understand the hazards
that may affect family and friends. Even with Federal protection for workers
and roadways, accidents still happen.
Car rollovers
are the most dangerous type of
transportation accidents in California
with the highest number of fatalities. A victim of a rollover accident,
may experience whiplash and disorientation, injuries to the brain and
spinal column, damage to the nervous system causing paralysis, and, in
the worst cases, death. Cars, SUVs, trucks, or semi-trucks may be involved
in a rollover. Semi-trailer trucks, because of an increase in weight and
mass, present separate hazards to the road and drivers. Because semi-trucks
are so large and immense, they are insusceptible to fast reactions and
may cause accidents known as
jackknife accidents in California. During a jackknife, the truck driver attempts to decelerate, but the
heavy trailer fails to slow and therefore swings forward at a 90 degree
angle causing an obstruction on the road for other drivers. Such an accident
may be fatal to other cars and pedestrians, as well as to the driver of
the truck. Click
HERE for descriptions and methods of preventing
jackknife truck and trailer accidents. California attorneys specializing in jackknife accidents may offer helpful
advice to victims of trucking accidents.
Some precautions such as using the right equipment, wearing a safety belt,
and driving on wheels safe for road conditions, may at times help prevent
some transportation accidents. Even considering these conditions, many
factors are uncontrollable. Cars, trucks, and motorcycles rate the highest
and most fatal of transportation accidents per mile traveled compared
to air transportation. Attorneys specializing in truck or motorcycle accidents
may help to seek justice for families who have lost loved ones in accidents.
As attorneys, the
truck accident lawyers and workers compensation attorneys of San Bernardino and
motorcycle accident and personal injury attorneys of Long Beach devote their work to fairly representing their clients. To seek a professional’s
opinion and to receive a free consultation regarding a personal transportation
accident, contact Alvandi Law Group at
(800) 980-6905.