Truck Accidents: What Happens When The Shoe Is On The Other Foot

28 April 2019 by Jonathan Phillips

In almost all truck accident lawsuits, it is the driver of a smaller vehicle suing the driver of the semi or commercial truck. You hardly ever hear about a case that is the other way around. Yet these cases do happen, and usually the truck driver has very good reason to be suing. The following examples are cases where a truck driver is the one suing, and scenarios of the proverbial shoe on the other foot, so to speak. 

Commercial Trucks Hitting Commercial Trucks

Trucks hitting trucks does not seem like something that would cause major wreckage or injury, but it does. A double-wide cab semi hitting a single cab-over or a commercial box truck is typical in these cases. The truck and the driver that suffer the most damage and injury respectively sue the driver who caused the damages/injury. With the exception of a lighter truck sideswiping a heavier truck, virtually all incidents of heavier trucks hitting lighter trucks result in lawsuits from the drivers' perspectives of the lighter trucks. A truck accident attorney will help anyone who is injured in such a truck accident as well as help sue for repairs to the client's truck. 

A Collision of Heavy Duty Pickups and Commercial Trucks

By extension, a commercial truck hitting a heavy duty pickup truck (and vice versa) also results in a truck accident lawsuit with a twist. Depending on who hit who, and who suffered the greater injuries and vehicular damage, the lawyer will pursue the case with the client who comes to him/her first. Both drivers are likely to survive, but one or both vehicles may not. 

Car Off Overhead Pass Onto Truck

It is well within the realm of possibility that a car on an overhead pass can crash through the barrier and land on top of a truck. When this happens, the damaged truck and injured truck driver can sue the car's driver, regardless of the severity of the driver's injuries after the car broke through the barrier and off the overhead pass. Such an accident can occur late at night, or early in the morning when truck drivers are on the road and car drivers are either drunk or too sleepy to realize what they are doing/what is happening. If the car's driver does not survive such an accident (which is highly likely given the type of impact twice over), then the truck driver should sue the car driver's insurance company. 

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