Some Safety Tips to Observe when You Share the Road with TX Big Rigs

All properly registered vehicles, in theory, have an equal right to share our Freeport, Texas roads. But smaller vehicles always face a disadvantage against larger, heavier vehicles. You don’t need to be on the road with an aggressive or malicious driver to suffer. One minor misstep or brief moment of inattention on the part of a big rig driver in Freeport, Texas can destroy a smaller vehicle and kill or maim its occupants in moments.

Our Freeport accident lawyers provide a few tips you can follow to increase your level of safety in the presence of looming big rigs.

• Avoid a truck’s blind spots. If you can’t see a truck’s side mirrors, the trucker can’t see you either.
• Don’t pass a truck on the right. Big rigs make WIDE right turns, sometimes from a center lane.
• Leave plenty of space between you and an 18-wheeler both in front and behind you. One of the biggest killers of truck accident victims is the underride phenomenon where a car drives fully or partially under the truck.
• Don’t speed or make sudden lane changes around 18-wheelers. The massive vehicles are slow to respond to changes in speed or direction, and might not be able to react in time to avoid a collision.
• If the trucker seems to be driving drunk, distracted, or disgruntled, STEER CLEAR. We vaguely recall one incident of a truck driver experiencing road rage from gridlocked California traffic. As we recall, he “floored it” and ran over approximately 26 smaller vehicles with his giant, heavily loaded truck.

Contact us if you have problems from a truck driver’s negligent actions and they cause you injury. Our Freeport accident lawyers have dedicated more than 12 years to holding negligent truckers accountable for their harmful actions. Our efforts have helped our clients win full financial recoveries for their undeserved accident injuries. Our Freeport accident lawyers could help you too.

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