Truck Underride Accidents Have High Fatality Rates (1)

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Truck Underride Accidents Have High Fatality
Rates
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• One of the most devastating types of accidents
  involving large commercial trucks are underride
  collisions. If you or a family member experienced
  such a horrific crash, you are lucky to be alive.
• Many of truck accidents are not survivable. The
  trucking industry and government policymakers
  agree with trucking safety activists that the big
  rigs require improved rear guards that prevent
  deadly underrides from occurring. But they have
  yet to get on the same page about who will pick
  up the tab for costs associated with the design
  and manufacture of the improved guards.

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What is an underride collision?

• Underrides occur when passenger vehicles that are
  smaller and sit lower to the ground slam into the
  rear of semi trucks and the momentum causes them
  to keep going forward underneath the large truck.
  This compresses the passenger compartment and
  causes the often-fatal injuries.
• Underride collisions can also involve passenger
  vehicles getting jammed beneath the semi from the
  side. In these types of crashes, even if the
  initial impact doesnt prove to be deadly,
  theres still a real danger of injury with the
  big rigs wheels.

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Present Regulations Are Insufficient

• Trucks have been required to be equipped with at
  least some form of underride guards for the past
  64 years. However, proponents of industry-wide
  change contend that these guards have not kept up
  with the new designs of passenger vehicles.
• The popularity of sport-utility vehicles that
  ride higher in traffic contributed to the damage
  to the passenger vehicles. Some safety advocates
  urge new designs that will wrap the guards all
  the way around the trailer. However, not only
  would the design upgrades cost the manufacturers
  huge sums, the added weight to the trucks would
  decrease the amount of cargo they could haul.

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Will any changes be enough?

• Even while the National Highway Traffic Safety
  Administration ponders altering federal standards
  for underride guards, many others associated with
  the industry surmise that the changes will not
  eliminate the deadly problem.

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• If you have been involved in an underride
  collision, or are the survivor of a family member
  who lost his or her life in a horrific crash with
  an 18-wheeler, you may decide to seek financial
  compensation from the Pennsylvania courts for the
  losses and damages you suffer.
• When you need a Philadelphia truck accident
  attorney, Soloff Zervanos, P.C. is ready to
  step in on your behalf. Their knowledgeable and
  experienced team will investigate your case so
  you can secure compensation for all of your
  crash-related expenses

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Contact Soloff Zervanos, P.C. Law Firm

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