Conroe truck wreck lawyers bring to your attention an unusual truck cargo accident. An Idaho potato truck hauling a cargo of spuds to a processing plant caught its trailers’ tires on the edge of the road and rolled over onto its side. The toppling of the truck created some instant mashed potatoes. More of the spuds rolled across two lanes of an interstate exit ramp.
The truck was hauling a 48-foot farm-bed trailer. When the trailer’s tires caught on the edge of the road, the snag pulled the whole tractor-trailer slowly over onto its side. The slow motion crash left the seat-belted truck driver and his passenger uninjured, but created enough instant mashed potatoes to feed a small town.
This truck cargo accident serves to illustrate what happens when a truck’s cargo shifts. When the potato truck’s trailer caught the edge of the road, the trailer would have started to tip to that side. Potatoes, if not adequately secured, will start to roll to the lower side of their container. In a trailer 48 feet long, there are a huge number of potatoes.
The weight of that cargo of potatoes shifting to one side will push the errant side of the trailer farther down over the road’s edge, and will gradually pull the truck cab along as the whole assembly begins to shift along with the cargo. Then when the truck and trailer topple onto their side, the trailer can buckle and break, spilling cargo all across the road.
If you’re in the path of a falling truck or its cargo, you could easily suffer catastrophic injuries. A heavy truck can mash cars and their occupants as easily as it mashes potatoes. The expenses that result from the average truck wreck run much higher than those resulting from the average car accident.
If the trucker or trucking company limited its coverage to the minimum required by law (as many do), you need an experienced Conroe truck wreck lawyer to seek out all the causes of your accident and all liable parties who could owe you compensation for your injuries. For example, in the Idaho potato truck wreck, the cargo loaders could well be at fault for failure to properly secure the spuds.
If you’ve been injured in a truck wreck, you can download our free e-book covering some major elements of truck accident claims. And if you have questions about how the law applies to your accident and what compensation you might claim, contact our dedicated Conroe truck wreck lawyers at 877-307-9500 or through our web contact form for a FREE consultation. If you have questions, our experienced truck accident attorneys have answers for you.