Western Washington Personal Injury Law Blog

An accident between a large truck and a passenger vehicle can be a deadly event. When an Edmonds resident is involved in a collision with a semi or other large commercial vehicle they may suffer serious injuries that impact the long-term quality of their life. Recovering from a truck accident can be a time consuming and expensive process and victims can decide to sue for their damages to aid them in their recovery pursuits.

Knowing how to plead a truck accident case can depend greatly on why the accident happened in the first place. There are a number of different causes of truck accidents and not all possible causes will be discussed in this post. Readers should always speak with their own personal injury attorneys to determine how best to address their pending legal claims.

Parents with small children may be amazed by their kids' capacities to find fun in basic household items. A child may have a room full of new toys but may derive more entertainment from the box they arrived in than from the actual products their parents purchased from them. Because children can be capricious and inquisitive in their actions, they can get themselves into tricky and sometimes dangerous situations when they are not fully supervised by responsible adults.

This is especially true when children are free outdoors. While expected threats like roadway traffic and dangerous strangers are always issues that can place children in harm's way, children can suffer serious and even fatal injuries when they are hurt on the properties of other people. This is particularly the case when those properties contain dangerous but interesting hazards within their boundaries.

Vehicle accidents are common, but each one is unique. The individual set of circumstances that gave rise to the collision between two or more vehicles, as well as the injuries and losses suffered by the victims, may give it its own facts on which to proceed. When one of the vehicles involved in the crash was a large truck or other commercial vehicle, even more distinctive considerations may need to be made.

That is because large trucks and vehicles are often subject to different rules and regulations than other automobiles when they travel on Washington roads. Their drivers may be required to hold special licenses to drive them, and they may be subject to different speed limits and maneuvering limitations on the roads. There are regulations regarding how large trucks should be loaded and their cargos secured, and special safety steps that their drivers should take to ensure that they are not a danger to anyone with whom they share the roads.

Assault charges are very serious and can result in criminal convictions for Edmonds residents. A person who is charged with assault should understand that different penalties can occur in their case, depending upon the degree of the charge. There are significant differences between first, second and third degree assault charges.

First degree assault is the most serious charge that a person may face in this category of offenses. It is charged when a person intends to inflict great bodily harm on their alleged victim through the use of a firearm or deadly weapon, or when they expose them to a dangerous poison or substance. First degree assault may also be charged when a person is alleged to have actually inflicted great bodily harm on another person.