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Truckers are a growing motorist group using Pennsylvania’s highways, and commercial trucking accidents occur regularly in the Wilkes-Barre and Scranton region. When a truck crash happens, serious injuries and fatalities are a common result.
Common causes of commercial truck accidents in Wilkes-Barre and Scranton
According to IIHS, a large percentage of trucking crashes are caused by:
Motor vehicle accidents are an hourly occurrence in Charleston and across Charleston County. Many crashes are completely avoidable, caused by drunk drivers or distracted drivers. Whatever the cause, car accidents are a major safety and economic issue for the communities in this vast region.
Motorcycle accidents are a common occurrence in Charleston. These regions popular with motorcyclists, and with so many bikes on the roads, the number of collisions is high, and motorcycle accidents are a major safety and economic issue for riders in the Charleston area.
At one point or another, everyone is a pedestrian. As the expense of driving and insuring a vehicle rise, more and more people choose to walk to their destinations. As the number of pedestrians increases, so do the number of pedestrian accidents. To see where the Charleston region ranks in terms of pedestrian collisions nationally, please go to this National Highway Traffic Safety Administration report.
While rare compared to other types of motor-vehicle crashes, aircraft accidents do happen regularly, usually with devastating results. Despite significant safety improvements over the past decades, many people each year experience the pain of losing someone in an airplane crash.
The size and speed of trains brings death and destruction to anyone and anything in their path. The main forms of train accidents are train derailments, train and pedestrian accidents, and train and car accidents.
To learn about train accidents in Charleston, go to the Federal Railroad Administration site.
Truckers are a growing motorist group using South Carolina’s highways, and commercial trucking accidents occur regularly in the Charleston region. When a truck crash happens, serious injuries and fatalities are a common result.
Common causes of commercial truck accidents in Charleston
According to IIHS, a large percentage of trucking crashes are caused by:
Bicycling is becoming more popular in the Charleston region. And with this increase in popularity comes an increase in Charleston bicycle accidents.
Motor vehicle accidents are a common occurrence in Charleston and across Charleston County. Many crashes are completely avoidable, caused by drunk drivers, drugged drivers, or distracted drivers accidents. The risk of these collisions are a major safety and economic issue for the Charleston community.
According to the U.S. Coast Guard, from 2013 to 2014, deaths increased from 560 to 610, an 8.9% increase, injuries increased from 2,620 to 2,678, a 2.2% increase and the total number of accidents increased from 4,062 to 4,064, a 0.05% increase nationally. Where the cause of death was known, 78% of fatal boating accident victims drowned; of those drowning victims, 84% were not wearing a life jacket.