Rear Ended Accident On The I-5
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My memory might be a little foggy, but I think about a year ago a driver named Chris with UPS was stopped in traffic and was rear ended by a car traveling at a very high rate of speed. Both women in the car died. Sad.
No, I've not been rear-ended. However, I have been hit in the steers by 4-wheelers 3 times (once in WA, twice in CA) and hit in the drives/trailers once in Idaho. My last one was in Jan 2018. Haven't been hit since fortunately.
Laura
TWIC:
Transportation Worker Identification Credential
Truck drivers who regularly pick up from or deliver to the shipping ports will often be required to carry a TWIC card.
Your TWIC is a tamper-resistant biometric card which acts as both your identification in secure areas, as well as an indicator of you having passed the necessary security clearance. TWIC cards are valid for five years. The issuance of TWIC cards is overseen by the Transportation Security Administration and the Department of Homeland Security.
I was thinking of suing the other party directly but I don’t think it’s right as her insurance did the payout amount. Did you do the same?
Btw I saw your profile and it shows your husband had brain injury? From a trucking accident?
No, I've not been rear-ended. However, I have been hit in the steers by 4-wheelers 3 times (once in WA, twice in CA) and hit in the drives/trailers once in Idaho. My last one was in Jan 2018. Haven't been hit since fortunately.
Laura
TWIC:
Transportation Worker Identification Credential
Truck drivers who regularly pick up from or deliver to the shipping ports will often be required to carry a TWIC card.
Your TWIC is a tamper-resistant biometric card which acts as both your identification in secure areas, as well as an indicator of you having passed the necessary security clearance. TWIC cards are valid for five years. The issuance of TWIC cards is overseen by the Transportation Security Administration and the Department of Homeland Security.
I was thinking of suing the other party directly but I don’t think it’s right as her insurance did the payout amount. Did you do the same?
Btw I saw your profile and it shows your husband had brain injury? From a trucking accident?
No, he hated driving and wanted to work on a cattle ranch as a cowboy. On 17 August 96 we were fighting a lightning strike fire. What the ranchers did up in Montana was to put in a big plastic barrel that held 100 gallons of water in the back of their pickups. They had a motorized pump and while one person drove the other one sprayed the fire. The pickup lurched, causing the husband to stumble. Just as he got his balance the chain holding the motor caught him in the knees and he went out over the back landing on the back of his head. I could tell he had a concussion at the very least. On Monday the 19th the boss came out to the ranch and the husband told him what had happened. So that morning he painted buildings and in the afternoon he was riding his horse to get the bulls out of the cows, when his horse stepped in a prairie dog hole and fell, tossing him out on the front of his head. The boss came back to the house, told me to call for an ambulance and then I ran out to him. He remained conscious for several hours before slipping into a coma from 3 bleeds in his brain. He was 56 and never was able to work after that.
No, I have never sued anyone for anything. When the husband died in Sept 2014, I tried to find a lawyer to take on the hospital that screwed up his care. I couldn't find even one to take on this mammoth corporation of hospital lawyers. I had just gotten my CDL , so have been driving since.
Laura
CDL:
Commercial Driver's License (CDL)
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles:
- Any combination of vehicles with a gross combined weight rating (GCWR) of 26,001 or more pounds, providing the gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of the vehicle being towed is in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any single vehicle with a GVWR of 26,001 or more pounds, or any such vehicle towing another not in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any vehicle, regardless of size, designed to transport 16 or more persons, including the driver.
- Any vehicle required by federal regulations to be placarded while transporting hazardous materials.
HOS:
Hours Of Service
HOS refers to the logbook hours of service regulations.
I was thinking of suing the other party directly but I don’t think it’s right as her insurance did the payout amount. Did you do the same?
Btw I saw your profile and it shows your husband had brain injury? From a trucking accident?
Lawsuit against who and for what, Mike W.?
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I was hauling a semi truck with full fuel tank and someone rear ended me while I was at a stop. Didn’t feel anything. The girl was lucky to be alive because my bumper was low enough to protect her from going underneath. No damage to my bumper at all. I guess I was lucky too.
Anyone experienced the same?