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The Federal Motor Carriers Safety Administration and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration carried out a “Large Truck Crash Causation Study” from examination of 967 large truck accidents, which occurred between April 2001 and December 2003. Injuries or fatalities were sustained in all of the sample accidents. In 23 percent of the large truck accidents and crashes, there was at least one fatality. Incapacitating injuries were suffered in 28 percent of the accidents and non-incapacitating injuries were sustained in 38 percent of the collisions. One-quarter of these accidents were single-vehicle, involving only the large truck or an inanimate object. One-half of the crashes involved the large truck and one other vehicle and the remaining 25 percent involved two or more vehicles. The large truck configuration that was involved in the vast majority of the collisions, 62.2 percent, was a tractor pulling a semi-trailer. The three major crash types, which involved large truc

A wrongful death lawsuit is a civil court action brought by survivors of the deceased against a person or corporation whose negligence or intentional act caused the death. It is a separate lawsuit from any criminal charges the responsible party may face in connection with the death. A well-known example is the case of O.J. Simpson who was acquitted of murder in a criminal proceeding, but found responsible in a civil wrongful death lawsuit brought by his ex-wife’s and Ron Goldman’s families. In situations where a corporation, such as a tobacco company, is the cause of the wrongful death, criminal charges cannot be brought. A wrongful death lawsuit is the only option for the deceased’s family to be awarded restitution. Each state has unique wrongful death statutes, but they generally outline who is entitled to bring a wrongful death lawsuit. Wrongful death statutes were originally brought into being to provide compensation for spouses and dependent children of a person whose death