{"id":115,"date":"2017-02-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garmerprather.lawblogger.net\/blog\/safer-driving-can-reduce-truck-accidents-in-kentucky\/"},"modified":"2019-04-29T12:38:22","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T16:38:22","slug":"safer-driving-can-reduce-truck-accidents-in-kentucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.garmerprather.com\/blog\/safer-driving-can-reduce-truck-accidents-in-kentucky\/","title":{"rendered":"Safer driving can reduce truck accidents in Kentucky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Semi-tractor trailers are a ubiquitous sight on Kentucky roads and highways, and most passenger vehicle drivers understand that commercial vehicles weighing as much as 80,000 pounds should be approached with caution. Accidents involving buses and large trucks claim thousands of lives each year in the United States, and 60 percent of these fatal crashes involve an impact with the front of trucks. Sometimes these front-end collisions are caused by distracted or fatigued truck drivers braking too late or not at all, but they are most often the result of dangerous passing maneuvers. <\/p>\n<p>It can take twice as long for a fully laden tractor-trailer to come to a safe stop, and emergency braking can cause large trucks to jackknife dangerously. Passenger vehicle drivers should bear this in mind when passing slow-moving trucks, and they should also remember that <a href=\"http:\/\/transportation.ky.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">commercial vehicles<\/a> have much larger blind spots than cars, pickup trucks or SUVs. Tailgating is a dangerous practice at any time, but the chances of suffering a serious injury increase exponentially when the vehicle being tailgated is a semi-tractor trailer. <\/p>\n<p>About 10 percent of the motor vehicle crashes that took place in Kentucky in 2014 involved commercial vehicles, and the majority of these truck accidents were caused by the drivers of the passenger vehicles involved. In addition to dangerous passing maneuvers and tailgating, passenger vehicle drivers frequently cause accidents by weaving, misjudging clearances and failing to yield the right of way. <\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.garmerprather.com\/blog\/safer-driving-can-reduce-truck-accidents-in-kentucky\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Safer driving can reduce truck accidents in Kentucky\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Semi-tractor trailers are a ubiquitous sight on Kentucky roads and highways, and most passenger vehicle drivers understand that commercial vehicles weighing as much as 80,000 pounds should be approached with caution. Accidents involving buses and large trucks claim thousands of lives each year in the United States, and 60 percent of these fatal crashes involve an impact with the front of trucks. Sometimes these front-end collisions are caused by distracted or fatigued truck drivers braking too late or not at all, but they are most often the result of dangerous passing maneuvers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trucking-accidents","tag-truck-accidents"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Safer driving can reduce truck accidents in Kentucky &#8212; Kentucky Injury Law News &#8212; February 23, 2017<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Semi-tractor trailers are a ubiquitous sight on Kentucky roads and highways, and most passenger vehicle drivers understand ... truck accidents\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.garmerprather.com\/blog\/safer-driving-can-reduce-truck-accidents-in-kentucky\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Safer driving can reduce truck accidents in Kentucky &#8212; 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