18-Wheeler/Semi-Truck Crashes
Crashes involving 18-wheelers can cause catastrophic damage and complex liability questions.
Semi-truck crashes often involve severe injuries and multiple responsible parties. Evidence such as logs, inspection records, and cargo details can be critical.
Who Bears the Cost When an 18-Wheeler Crashes
Federal crash data from 2024 overturns the intuitive picture: 85.3% of people killed in large-truck crashes were not in the truck. They were in the other car, on foot, or on a bicycle. Of the 3,664 total deaths recorded in Class 8 crashes that year, 3,124 were not truck occupants. (Cash4Crashes analysis of NHTSA FARS 2024. Full data: Who Actually Dies in Large Truck Crashes.)
An 18-wheeler and a passenger sedan are not equal parties in a collision. A loaded tractor-trailer can weigh 20 to 30 times what a car weighs. When the two meet, the force goes into the smaller vehicle. That imbalance drives both the injury severity and the legal complexity of semi-truck claims.
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