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If You are Hurt in an Accident You Need New York Lawyers On Your Side

Being in an accident can be a very unpleasant experience for a person whether or not anyone is injured or not. Even if you are not the one who is at fault a serious accident can drain you emotionally, physically and most of all financially, especially in the current litigious climate. One the most common accidents on the roads these days, is when a heavily loaded semi truck gets into an accident with a car. If you find yourself involved in this kind of accident or for that matter any other kind of motor vehicle accident in New York, lawyers should be the first people you call.

In the last few years new laws have been passed to allow these behemoths to keep getting bigger and heavier and now they can run to 53 feet in length and weight over 80,000 pounds when fully loaded. When this much weight is flying down the expressway at 70 miles per hour or more it is an accident looking for a place to happen. Many of the drivers are operating on little sleep having been on the road for weeks or months and are, as many New York lawyers can tell you, in no shape to be in charge of this much vehicle.

Part of the reason the drivers operate under these conditions is that there are far more jobs than drivers and those that are working are overworked. Another problem that has begun to surface in recent years according to many New York lawyers is that trucking companies are getting so desperate that they will hire anyone to drive these big rigs, whether they are licensed or not. In many cases a license is obtained just to get them behind the wheel making our highways a very dangerous training area for these drivers.

If not being able to get good drivers is not a big enough problem, there is the condition of the trucks to consider. As lawyers in New York have seen time and again, many of these trucks spend so much time on the road that much of the maintenance is done on the fly whenever and wherever the truck is off the road for a few hours. Because of this much of the maintenance work done is very subpar if in fact it is ever done at all as there is no money being made while the truck is down for maintenance.

New York lawyers can tell you from personal experience that poorly maintained trucks combined with overtired and inexperienced drivers are responsible for more motor vehicle accidents in a year than any other cause. Because these vehicles have become so large the amount of damage they can cause when involved in an accident can be truly devastating.

If you or some you love is involved in any kind of motor vehicle accident and needs the help of a New York lawyers office you should contact the offices of Gunzburg Law. Michael Gunzburg has been specializing in personal injury law for almost 20 years and will be there ready to fight for your rights in a court of law.


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