Kenworth Truck Accident Attorneys

Kenworth has been manufacturing trucks, school buses and transit buses since 1912. Recently, they have focused on trucks that are medium or heavy duty. They are based in a suburb of Seattle in Washington named Kirkland. During our 30+ years of protecting victims of truck accidents, we have seen plenty of accidents involving Kenworth trucks. Our sincere hope is to help you reach maximum medical improvement and get the maximum compensation possible for your injuries under the law.

Types of Kenworth Trucks

Kenworth makes many Class 8 models of medium and heavy duty trucks. They can be seen hauling loads, trailers and equipment across most of California. The most popular models in Canada and the United States for the conventional Class 8 category include the W900, T2000, T700, T660, and T800. Their medium duty trucks include the T440, T370, T270, and T170 (though those range from Class 8 and 7 to Class 6 and 5). Their most popular heavy duty is the C500. Many Kenworth trucks come with PACCAR engines. They have models that use gas and diesel. One other interesting fact is that they were the first to create the cab-over engine (or COE) type of truck. Kenworth makes big rigs, semi-trucks and much more.

Kenworth Trucks Workers’ Compensation

Like all workers in California, truckers who drive trucks are required by law to be covered by workers’ compensation by their employer. The workers’ compensation insurance held by your employer could pay medical expenses, death benefits, temporary disability, income, permanent disability compensation, medical benefits, and vocational rehabilitation, when the injury and circumstance warrants. We will also look to maximize your benefits by finding third parties. They are people, companies or government entities who are also responsible for all or part of your workplace injury other than just your employer. This may include a road or highway construction firm, Kenworth truck mechanic, truck manufacturer, and others.

Common Kenworth Truck Injuries

Due to the size and speed of Kenworth trucks, many of the possible results of truck accidents can be rather traumatic. Concussions, whiplash, becoming deformed, brain injury, amputation, neck injury, ligament sprains, contusions, cuts, being crushed, burns, muscle strains, blindness, lacerations, coma, broken bones, back injury, heavy bleeding, and wrongful death are all possible outcomes of trucking accidents. The Kenworth truck accident injury attorneys of DiMarco | Araujo | Montevideo have over thirty years of experience helping those hit by trucks and truckers with their legal cases for all the above injuries, results and more.

How Truck Accidents Happen

Truckers can be on the road for many hours on end and so they invariably encounter many types of challenges and dangers. A main reason truck accidents cause so many injuries each and every year is that Kenworth trucks can be forty or more times heavier than the car or van it crashes with. Over two-thirds of truck accident injury victims were not the ones in the actual truck. Truck accidents can happen in many ways including a car got in the way of the wide turn, rollover, load shift, an intoxicated driver (DUI), a drunk driver, poor road design, improper loading, out of control downhill, poor repair or maintenance of the truck or car who started the accident, rear-ender, brake failure, speeding, jack brake failure, run-off-road collision, poor road condition, too much downhill speed, swerved off road, drugged driver, overworked driver, load too heavy, driver on cell phone, negligent hiring, illegal loads, under the influence driver, driver on drugs, improperly secured load, and animal collision. It is important that the trucking company you work for always keeps up on the maintenance on your truck.

Additional Causes of Kenworth Truck Accidents

Some more types of causes of trucking accidents that include colliding with a pole or stop light, sleep deprivation, poor eyesight, spill, unsafe lane change, illegal lane change, collision with a median or barrier, hit a pedestrian, hit a deer, driver fell asleep at the wheel, side collision, hit road debris, poor road construction, poor reflexes, jack-knife, equipment failure, head-on collision, air-brake failure, another driver hit the truck, blind spot accident, swerved into a car, side swiped a car, driver eating or calling, low bridge clearance, trucker texting, inexperienced UHaul driver, low building clearance, low warehouse clearance, or a distracted trucker on a cell phone while driving. As should be obvious, Kenworth trucks need to be taken seriously.

We Can Help You

Even if you are unsure whether your Kenworth truck accident case has merit, please contact us anyway as we will be able to discuss that with you over the phone and give you prudent advice as to your legal options. We are well known throughout Orange County, California, Long Beach, San Jose, San Diego, Los Angeles, Ventura, Fresno, Riverside, San Bernardino, Central California, Sacramento, San Luis Obispo, Oakland, and San Francisco as top tractor trailer accident lawyers who know how to help you. We offer a free initial consultation and case evaluation for all injured truckers or those hit by Kenworth or any other type of truck. Even after that free initial meeting, we work on a contingency basis where you won’t owe us anything unless we win your injury case.

The Kenworth trucking injury attorneys at DiMarco | Araujo | Montevideo are willing to have the meeting at your home or hospital room if you are unable to come to our office. We are available to meet Monday through Friday between 8:30am and 5:30pm and we can also setup appointments on Saturdays, Sundays and in the evening.

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