Georgia Truck Accident Lawyers Blog

It doesn't take a lot of searching on the Internet to see that people involved in serious trucking accidents in Atlanta and the surrounding areas can be devastating.

Our Georgia truck accident attorneys point out three recent examples where accidents involving large tractor trailers caused death and major injury.

People who are driving sedans and other smaller vehicles almost always are on the wrong end of a trucking accident. While truckers themselves do run the risk of being injured, given that they are higher up and have a chance of flipping due to the weight of the trucks they drive, the risk isn't nearly as high as the vehicles below.

In one case, a woman died in a horrible accident in Thomson, Georgia, after colliding head-on with a tractor trailer. Photos from the scene show a mangled vehicle that is barely recognizable. You can't determine the make or model or have any idea what the vehicle looked like before.

According to news reports, the accident happened in the early hours of a recent weekday on a highway. A 21-year-old woman collided with a tractor trailer and was pronounced dead at the scene, state troopers reported. The tractor trailer was carrying wood and was driven by a 45-year-old truck driver.

Witnesses reported that the woman drove into the northbound lane of the highway, attempting to pass another southbound vehicle. But when she didn't immediately get back into the lane, she ran straight into a tractor trailer that was coming over a hill.

The force of the accident caused the woman's vehicle to be dragged more than 200 feet -- nearly 2/3 of the length of a football field -- before it finally came to rest. It's unclear how fast the vehicles were going at the time, but that line alone describes the awesome power of these tractor trailers.

In an accident north of Macon on Interstate 75, two people died during a multi-vehicle accident on the highway. A television news station reported that at least two people died in the wreck where one of the vehicles involved was a tractor-trailer.

The accident took hours to clear up as traffic was completely blocked for some time as crime scene investigators attempted to piece together what happened.

A Georgia trucker was involved in a fatal accident in upstate New York recently when a delivery truck driver ran into the rear of an 18-wheeler that was having mechanical problems, killing a delivery truck passenger, a local newspaper reports.

The Georgia truck driver told police he was driving slowly on an interstate because he was experiencing mechanical problems. An appliance delivery truck driver said he didn't see the tractor trailer until it was too late. The impact of the accident killed his co-worker.

Even running into the back of an empty 18-wheeler can kill, as this story relays. Large trucks are so powerful they don't need to be fully loaded in order for other drivers to feel their impact.