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| Major Causes of Fatal Truck and Bus Accidents |
The Center for National Truck and Bus Statistics has determined the leading causes of fatal bus and truck accidents. Amongst the various manners in which a fatal truck accident could result, the most common factors of these accidents are pedestrians (26%) and an auto on the same road (61.8%).
Aside from these major factors, the other common causes are listed as:
- Animal
- Boulder
- Bridge overhead structure
- Bridge parapet end
- Bridge pier or abutment
- Bridge rail
- Building
- Cargo/equipment loss or shift (causing injury or damage)
- Concrete traffic barrier
- Culvert
- Curb
- Ditch
- Embankment - earth
- Embankment - material type unknown
- Embankment - rock, stone or concrete
- Fell/jumped from vehicle
- Fence
- Fire hydrant
- Fire/explosion
- Gas inhalation
- Guardrail end
- Guardrail face
- Highway/traffic sign post/sign
- Immersion
- Impact attenuator/crash cushion
- Injured in vehicle (other than cargo/equipment loss/shift)
- Jackknife (causing injury or damage)
- Luminaire/light support
- Mail box
- Motor vehicle in-transport on different roadway
- Motor vehicle in-transport on same roadway
- Motor vehicle in-transport strikes or is struck by objects set-inmotion by another vehicle in-transport
- Nonmotorist on personal conveyance
- Other fixed object
- Other noncollision
- Other not-in-transport motor vehicle
- Other object (not fixed)
- Other post, other pole or other supports
- Other traffic barrier
- Overhead sign support/sign
- Overturn/rollover
- Parked motor vehicle (not in transport)
- Pavement surface irregularity (pothole, etc.)
- Pedalcycle
- Pedestrian
- Railway train
- Ridden animal or animal-drawn conveyance
- Shrubbery
- Snow bank
- Thrown/falling object (other than cargo/equipment loss/shift)
- Traffic signal support/signal
- Tree (standing tree only)
- Unknown
- Utility pole
- Vehicle occupant struck or run over by own vehicle
- Wall
- Working motor vehicle (construction, maintenance, utility)
If you have been involved in a bus accident or in a truck accident, please contact our personal injury lawyers for a consultation. We will be able to provide you with your legal rights, your available options as well as a general idea of your available recoverable compensation.
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Posted By Los Angeles Personal Injury Lawyer on September 20, 2009 12:25 pm | Permalink  |
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