Coachella Valley Big Rig Truck Accident Lawyer
Coachella Valley Big Rig Truck Accident Lawyer Sebastian Gibson, Named A Top Lawyer 13 Years in a Row and Now With Over 45 Years of Experience
The Right Choice in Big Rig, Tractor Trailer, Semi Trailer and 18 Wheeler Commercial Truck Accident Attorneys
When you’ve been injured in a big rig, tractor trailer or 18 wheeler commercial truck accident in the Coachella Valley or anywhere in California, finding the right Coachella Valley Big Rig Truck Accident Lawyer is essential to protect your rights and to make sure you obtain the compensation you deserve for your injuries and all you’ve been through.
Coachella Valley Big Rig Truck Accident Lawyer Sebastian Gibson now has over 45 years of experience representing truck and car accident victims, victims of other types of accidents such as motorcycle, pedestrian and bicycle accidents and others who have deserved the best in legal representation. We’re ready today to provide immediate assistance to you and yours after a truck accident and to begin preserving the evidence that can make a difference in your truck accident case.
When you work with Coachella Valley Big Rig Truck Accident Lawyer Sebastian Gibson, you’re working with an attorney who is named a Top Lawyer in Palm Springs Life Magazine year after year after year, and an attorney you can count on who has the determination to obtain a result you can be proud of.
Tired of trying to reach an attorney who will actually answer your calls? Call us and see the difference when you’ve chosen the right auto accident lawyer for your case.
The Coachella Valley Big Rig Truck Accident Attorney For Your Accident
In the most recent year available for statistics, the largest city in the Coachella Valley (Palm Springs) had 426 victims killed or injured in accidents. Seventy-five were accidents in which alcohol was involved. Twenty were motorcycle accidents, Twenty-two were pedestrian accidents, and twenty-nine were bicycle accidents. The rest were car accidents.
Fifty-five of the accidents in Palm Springs were speed related accidents, forty-two were accidents which took place at night and sixteen were hit and run accidents. The Coachella Valley city with the highest number of car and truck accidents was Palm Springs, followed by Palm Desert, Indio, Cathedral City, La Quinta and Rancho Mirage.
In terms of car and truck injury accidents involving alcohol, again the largest Coachella Valley city had the largest number by far. Palm Springs also had the greatest number of motorcycle accidents but Indio had more pedestrian accidents. Palm Springs had the greatest number of bicycle accidents, but when it came to accidents in which speed was a factor, Palm Desert had more speed related injuries followed by Indio, Cathedral City, Coachella and Rancho Mirage.
Palm Springs had the greatest number of injuries caused at night, but Indio had the greatest number of hit and run accidents followed by Cathedral City. As small as Rancho Mirage is compared to Palm Springs and other large cities in the Coachella Valley, Rancho Mirage had a surprisingly high number of car and truck injuries and fatalities.
If you’ve been injured in a truck accident, Sebastian Gibson’s practice areas in the field of truck accident law is today focused on the representation of individual victims who have been seriously injured and families who have lost a loved one when their vehicle has been involved in an accident with a big rig truck, tractor-trailer truck, semi-trailer truck, 18 wheeler, Fed Ex, UPS or other delivery truck, landscaping truck, garbage disposal truck, dump truck, cement mixer, flatbed truck, refrigerated truck, tank truck, heavy hauler, mobile crane, military truck, box truck, construction truck, car transport truck trailer, a fire truck or a heavy duty pickup truck.
Choosing the Right Coachella Valley Truck Accident Attorney in The Coachella Valley
Coachella Valley Big Rig Truck Accident Lawyer Sebastian Gibson can represent you and your family when you’ve been injured in a semi truck accident, big rig truck accident, 18 wheeler truck crash, landscaping truck accident, garbage disposal truck collision, gardening truck accident, slow moving truck that causes your injury, a truck accident in which the truck driver has fallen asleep, driven for too many hours or has failed to check over his or her truck for mechanical problems.
When you need a Coachella Valley Big Rig Truck Accident Lawyer for a truck accident on the freeway or on city roads, a Fed Ex truck that causes your injuries, a UPS truck that causes your accident, or any other type of commercial truck or delivery truck that is involved in your truck accident, the right choice is Coachella Valley Truck Accident Lawyer Sebastian Gibson.
Whatever your needs for a truck accident in California, Coachella Valley Big Rig Truck Accident Attorney Sebastian Gibson is the right choice in truck collision lawyers to assist you in your truck accident claim when a truck accident in the Coachella Valley causes serious or catastrophic injuries or loss of life, loss of earnings and significant pain and suffering to your and your loved ones.
Whether your truck accident has occurred on the freeway, in the city or even within your home development, the Coachella Valley Big Rig Truck Accident Lawyer Sebastian Gibson to call when you need immediate help is Attorney Sebastian Gibson. With over 45 years of experience, we’re heavily involved in representing truck accident victims within California and we stand ready to assist you in receiving the compensation you deserve for your Coachella Valley big rig truck accident.
Callifornia Big Rig and Tractor Trailer Truck Accidents
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) tracks the number of large truck accident and bus crashes in the U.S. Of the approximately 415,000 police-reported crashes involving large trucks in 2015, there were 3,598 (1 percent) fatal crashes and 83,000 (20 percent) injury crashes.
Approximately 60 percent of all fatal crashes involving large 18 wheeler and tractor trailer trucks occurred on rural roads and 25 percent on rural or urban Interstate highways.
Thirty-five percent of all fatal crashes, 21 percent of all injury crashes, and 19 percent of all property damage only crashes involving large trucks occurred at night (6:00 pm to 6:00 am).
In 2015, 4,050 large big rig and tractor trailer trucks were involved in fatal crashes. According to statistics kept involving these large trucks, 53,263 commercial trucks were involved in injury crashes, and 95,337 were involved in tow away crashes.
Singles (truck tractors pulling a single semi-trailer) accounted for 65 percent of the large trucks involved in fatal crashes in 2015; doubles (tractors pulling two trailers) made up 3 percent of the large trucks involved in fatal crashes; and triples (tractors pulling three trailers) accounted for 0.1 percent of all large trucks involved in fatal crashes.
Of the 3,996 drivers of large commercial trucks involved in fatal crashes in 2015, 206 (5 percent) were 25 years of age or younger, and 211 (5 percent) were 66 years of age or older. In comparison, 4 (2 percent) of the 261 drivers of buses in fatal crashes were 25 years of age or younger, and 34 (13 percent) were 66 years of age or older.
Don’t be treated as just another statistic by an indifferent insurance company. Stand out from the crowd with Coachella Valley big rig truck accident lawyer Sebastian Gibson.
Choosing the Right Coachella Valley Big Rig Truck Accident Lawyer, Sebastian Gibson
If you’ve had a big rig truck accident anywhere in California, you need Coachella Valley big rig truck accident lawyer Sebastian Gibson on your side. Coachella Valley Big Rig Truck Accident Lawyer Sebastian Gibson has been named one of the Top Lawyers of 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 and 2011 and is an innovative and aggressive attorney that will provide superior representation to win your case.
Two words describe Coachella Valley Big Rig Truck Accident Lawyer Sebastian Gibson. Ridiculously Good. We try to live up to that description by our determination to do good for our clients. Clients like you.
It’s unfortunate how many accidents in California are caused by negligent, careless and reckless big rig truck drivers each year. The vast majority of accidents in California are caused by drowsy and inattentive drivers who simply lose concentration or whose attention is distracted after far too many hours on the road. If you’ve been the victim of such an accident caused by a negligent, careless or reckless big rig truck driver, you need a truck accident lawyer experienced in the handling of such cases.
The California Vehicle Code statutes are meant to prevent big rig truck drivers from falling asleep at the wheel, texting or performing other activities when they should be attentive to driving conditions, but truck drivers become distracted when they fill out forms while driving, play with the radio, use their cell phones to call their destinations or loved ones, talk to passengers, bend down to pick up something that’s fallen off a seat, or eat while they drive so they don’t lose time. When they perform these or any number of other tasks while driving, they become inattentive to the road, and truck accidents occur.
Big rig truck accidents also occur when truck drivers fail to heed weather reports or continue to drive during windy conditions or other types of dangerous weather when they should be pulling off the road rather than risking their own lives and that of other drivers on the road. Big Rig trucks need to be properly maintained, repaired and loaded and when they’re not, additional big rig accidents occur, blocking freeways and causing additional accidents as people look at the damage and rear end other vehicles.
One of the biggest troubles with a big rig accident, is that when a big rig truck hits anything smaller in the way, more often than not, the smaller vehicle is going to be crushed or burn in a catastrophic accident involving sometimes horrendous injuries and or the death of any passengers, their children and their pets. If the big rig truck does not jackknife, it may rollover and crush any other vehicles in its path.
If you need a Coachella Valley big rig truck accident lawyer, you need to call attorney Sebastian Gibson so we can immediately begin investigating your case and preserving evidence.
What Is The Statute Of Limitations For Filing A Lawsuit For Damages For Injuries From A Big Rig Accident in the Coachella Valley.
The statute of limitations, which is the date by which you must file a lawsuit in the appropriate court for your injuries resulting from an accident in California, or for a wrongful death is two years. If the injured party was a minor at the time of the accident, you have a longer period of time to file suit.
There are other exceptions to the statute of limitations and there are different statutes of limitations for each area of law, such as breach of contract actions, etc. One of the most important exceptions is that for claims against any type of public entity such as a school, city or city bus line, a claim must be filed with the city within 6 months of the accident.
For an analysis of the statute of limitations for any type of legal matter, it is essential to have Coachella Valley Big Rig Truck Accident Lawyer Sebastian Gibson analyze your case to determine whether the statute of limitations has already passed or if you may still file a lawsuit.
Where Do You Get Police Traffic Collision Reports For A California Big Rig Accident?
After any type of injury accident in California involving cars or other types of vehicles, if the investigating officer called to the scene of the accident feels there are serious injuries, the officer will make notes in order to prepare a report. At the end of their investigation, the officer will hand you a card with the address of the investigating police department, sheriff’s department or highway patrol office with the report number for your car or other vehicular traffic accident.
If the police, sheriff’s department or highway patrol weren’t called to the scene, you should have obtained information from the other party including their name, address, phone number, vehicle information and insurance information.
Big rig and tractor trailer truck accident collision reports, and commercial truck accident reports involving other types of commercial trucks can take more time to complete. Let our offices obtain the truck collision report issued for your truck accident and we’ll analyze what the truck operator may have done to cause your collision.
Where Can You Get Medical Treatment For Big Rig Accidents In California?
There are a host of medical providers who will provide you with medical treatment after big rig accidents in California. These include offices of doctors, medical specialists such as orthopedic doctors, radiologist offices where you can obtain x-rays and MRI’s, physical therapists and chiropractors. At the Law Firm of California big rig truck accident lawyer Sebastian Gibson, we also keep track of which doctors will treat clients on a lien basis when our clients have no health insurance or medical payments coverage on their car insurance policy.
However, if you have been seriously injured in any type of big rig accident in California, we recommend you go to your nearest hospital. If you are uncertain if your health insurance company will cover your medical expenses at the hospital you wish to go to for medical treatment, call the number on the back of your health insurance card.
If you have medical payments coverage on your auto insurance and you’ve been injured while in a vehicle with such insurance, you may be able to have your medical bills paid by your car insurance company in the event you don’t have health insurance. Some liability insurance companies, however, only offer what they call “excess medical pay coverage” which means that they will pay medical bills only to the extent that your health insurance, if any, doesn’t cover them first and they will pay the bills only after seeing proof that any health insurance coverage denied the bill.
Negligent, Reckless and Careless Big Rig Truck Driving Accidents in California, And Much More
With over 40 years of experience as a personal injury attorney, Coachella Valley big rig truck accident lawyer Sebastian Gibson represents victims involved in an auto accident, big rig truck accident, 18 wheeler truck accident, tractor trailer truck accident, semi truck accident, commercial truck accident, motorcycle accident, pedestrian accident, bicycle accident or any other type of car or motor vehicle accident or personal injury claim. Many of these accidents in California have involved wrongful deaths, serious spinal cord injuries and traumatic brain injuries, as well as injuries to children.
Our personal injury lawyers have handled cases involving distracted and inattentive drivers, drowsy driving, aggressive driving, road rage intentional driving, negligent or careless driving, drunk driving accidents, reckless driving, hit and run accidents, intersection crashes, failures to stop at red lights and stop signs, accidents caused by speed, accidents caused by distracted drivers and drivers using their cell phones to text or tweet at the time of their accident.
Negligent driving by inattentive drivers isn’t simply committed by drivers of commercial and big rig trucks and drivers of tractor trailers and 18-wheelers, it’s also committed by young and old, people going to work or school, car and car pool drivers, drivers of SUV’s and pickup trucks and by motorcycle riders, and riders of mopeds and scooters.
The victims of careless and inattentive driving include other drivers of cars and trucks, pedestrians, bicycle riders, riders of motorcycles, sport bikes and mountain bikes as well as children playing and these accidents cause broken bones, internal injuries, back and neck injuries, soft tissue injuries, scars and on occasion, catastrophic injuries, paraplegia, quadriplegia and wrongful deaths.
As a Coachella Valley Big Rig Truck Accident Lawyer, We’ll Be With You Throughout Your Case, All Along The Way
More than a million big rigs pass through the Coachella Valley on the Interstate I-10 freeway each year. In California, interstate drivers are allowed by law to log up to twelve hours per day behind the wheel of these humongous trucks, and most are reluctant not to drive as much as they can. The more they drive, the more money they make.
The truck speed limit on the I-10 through the Coachella Valley is 55 mph. Most truckers drive through the valley at faster speeds. It would be easy to blame all of the big rig crashes and tractor-trailer rollovers in the Coachella Valley on speed, but there are too many other factors, including the negligence of others. With trucks that can weigh as much as 80,000 pounds, the passengers in cars and pickups they hit have a lesser chance to survive.
The factors which Coachella Valley Big Rig Truck Accident Lawyer Sebastian Gibson commonly sees in crashes involving big rig crashes and tractor trailer rollovers commonly include speed, driver fatigue from driving too many hours without a break or too many hours in one day, lack of familiarity with the highway, bad weather including wind or rain, wet roads, drugs or alcohol, falling asleep at the wheel, expired medical certificates, poor maintenance, fires on board and safety violations.
If you’ve been involved in an accident with a big rig or tractor trailer on the I-10 freeway or elsewhere, you want a Coachella Valley big rig truck accident lawyer who will be with you every step of the way.
A Uniquely Talented, Experienced And Knowledgeable Coachella Valley Big Rig Truck Accident Attorney You Can Trust
With law degrees in both the U.S. and the U.K., Coachella Valley Big Rig Truck Accident Lawyer Sebastian Gibson and over 45 years of experience in California and in London, Sebastian Gibson has spent the last 35 years representing accident victims in Southern California. During that time he’s been frequently interviewed on radio and TV for his expertise, his wit and humor. The author of thousands of articles on the internet, Sebastian Gibson has also written for the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journal newspapers and is the author of a recently published book in 2012.
With millions of dollars in settlements for his auto accident clients and families who’ve lost a loved one, Coachella Valley big rig truck accident lawyer Sebastian Gibson has been named one of the Top Lawyers for the past 13 years by Palm Springs Life Magazine and called “Brilliant” and “A Legend.” He’s known for his wit and humor, and a determination to make sure his clients receive the compensation they deserve. He has also been named as a “Superb” Lawyer by Avvo, their highest rating, which rates attorneys throughout the U.S.
With offices in Palm Desert and Newport Beach, our personal injury lawyers have represented individuals injured in big rig truck accidents and we can represent you against an insurance company for a big rig truck accident in California, both inland, and up and down the coast.
You Just Get Better, We’ll Handle All The Other Things From Your Big Rig Accident
The most important thing for you to do after being the victim of an accident caused by an negligent or careless driver or one where the other driver was inattentive or distracted, is to get the best possible treatment you need for your injuries.
Depending on the level of impact to you or your vehicle, you’re almost certainly in some, and perhaps a great deal of pain, may still be off work, and may be worried how you’re going to pay for medical treatment if you have no health insurance.
Coachella Valley big rig truck accident lawyer Sebastian Gibson can safely guide you through your accident, deal with the insurance adjusters and refer you to doctors who will wait to be paid out of any settlement for the treatment they provide to you.
Don’t Let An Insurance Company Diminish The Value Of Your Big Rig Truck Driving Accident
We’ll prevent you from falling into traps set by insurance company adjusters who may either be ignoring you or calling you constantly, trying to trip you up by taking a recorded statement to either pin the blame on you or to get you to say you’re fine before you can even identify all your aches and pains.
Despite their warm and friendly image on TV, insurance companies can be difficult at best to deal with. An insurance company adjuster will often suggest that your claim has little or no value by using any admissions you made in your recorded statement against you or by using pre-existing medical conditions against you.
If an insurance company infers they see some comparative negligence on your behalf for even a made up reason, suddenly even a “nuisance value” settlement offer may sound like a good deal when it’s not, to an accident victim desperate to have their car repaired so they can return to work and put food on the table for their family.
Call Coachella Valley Big Rig Truck Accident Lawyer Sebastian Gibson For Your Big Rig Accident in California
The time to act is now, before the insurance company concludes your case can be resolved for pennies on the dollar because you’re unrepresented and categorizes your case as having little more than nuisance value. Call the number at the top of this page to talk to Coachella Valley big rig truck accident attorney Sebastian Gibson.
Causes of Truck Accidents in the Coachella Valley and Throughout California
Strict deadlines put on truck drivers by their carriers and brokers can lead to dangerous driving, speeding and carelessness while operating vehicles that weigh as much as 10 or 20 times the weight of a car.
A truck driver and a commercial trucking company are required to make an inspection of their truck before setting out on the road. Such truck inspections can be superficial when facing a deadline to get goods delivered by a specific time. Truck brakes that seem mushy, balding tires, transmission or steering problems, truck lighting and other maintenance that need looking at are unfortunately put off until another time.
Commercial truck drivers operating on too little sleep and falsified rest periods, popping drugs to stay awake that only last so long, or relying on coffee to keep alert for merging or slow traffic can lead to disastrous consequences.
Trucking companies delivering commercial goods to businesses in California without sufficient assets, aging trucks or already facing fines or judgements for previous accidents can find themselves in financial trouble and only able to only hire truck drivers without the sufficient experience to drive safely on the roads you travel.
Commercial truck drivers from Palm Springs and Palm Desert to Indio and Thermal, in the Coachella Valley and California have been known to take unjustifiable risks when pulling out into traffic. Driving a big rig, tractor trailer or 18-wheeler truck at sunset or at night that is unable to accelerate quickly enough to avoid traffic coming in the opposite lane or around a bend is a recipe for disaster.
Coachella Valley Big Rig Truck Accident Lawyer Sebastian Gibson has seen the consequences of these and other factors that cause catastrophic truck accidents in California and have the ability to obtain the compensation you deserve when you’ve suffered severe injuries in a California commercial truck accident.
As a skilled commercial truck accident lawyer, Sebastian Gibson will act immediately to preserve evidence and hire experts to reconstruct the causes of your truck accident in the Coachella Valley and to determine the responsible parties for causing your injuries.
Compensation You’re Entitled To Following A California Truck Accident That’s Not Your Fault
Once a determination has been made as to the responsible parties and their insurance carriers, Coachella Valley Big Rig Truck Accident Lawyer Sebastian Gibson will seek to obtain compensation for your past and future medical bills and treatment, property damages for your car, motorcycle or truck, loss of wages and earning capacity, pain and suffering, loss of enjoyment of life including loss of consortium and in instances when a truck driver has been drinking and is convicted of driving while intoxicated, punitive damages.
Commercial truck drivers operating big rig and tractor trailer trucks with the destructive capability of a tank have the highest standard to avoid a disastrous and tragic accident that can cause loss of life in an instant.
Driver fatigue caused by lack of sleep, substance abuse whether by alcohol or drugs, speeding to make deadlines or economic gain, insufficient inspections and truck maintenance, unsafe loading of trucks, and failure by a truck company to sufficiently train their truck drivers in safe driving techniques all contribute to the growing number of commercial truck accidents on California roads, highways and freeways in daytime traffic or late at night.
If you’ve been injured in a Coachella Valley Big Rig commercial truck accident, call Coachella Valley Big Rig Truck Accident Lawyer Sebastian Gibson without delay. Our office works on a contingency fee and we utilize experts in all phases of your case. We can refer you to medical specialists that work on a lien basis to ensure you obtain the medical treatment you need for your injuries. Our office also advances the court costs and our time and unless we’re successful in your case, you pay us nothing to reimburse us for costs we’ve advanced or for our legal fees.
What Happens After A Coachella Valley Big Rig Truck Accident
After a commercial truck accident in California, a trucking company will immediately be on the line to their insurance carrier who will call out the troops to obtain, photograph or hide evidence. Truck drivers will clam up, records may become falsified, and maintenance records augmented. When such actions take place, it can be difficult to trace the actions that led to a truck accident disaster.
Fortunately, Coachella Valley Big Rig Truck Accident Lawyer Sebastian Gibson is familiar with such tactics by truck drivers, their employers and commercial truck company insurance investigators as are most truck accident investigators from the California Highway Patrol and many Sheriff Officers who are called to the scene of truck accidents in Palm Springs and throughout the Coachella Valley and Orange County.
The Growing Number of Commercial Trucks On Freeways in California
More and more commercial trucks are on freeways not only in the slow lane, but in the lane next to the slowest lane and even occasionally in all the third lane from the right as big rig trucks are forced to the left by merging traffic or when seeking to pass slower trucks.
Even when traffic signs are posted prohibiting trucks from passing in mountains or hills, it’s not uncommon to see tractor trailer big rig trucks and 18 wheeler trucks passing slower commercial trucks late at night when truck drivers feel confident they won’t be seen by a California Highway Patrol officer.
As truck drivers are as a rule better trained than the average driver of a car, the cause of a truck accident on the freeway can be the result of the failure by the driver of another vehicle failing to yield the right of way to a commercial truck unable to move to another lane while merging into traffic. In such an event, the driver of the car merging without looking will commonly be found to be the primary cause of the truck accident.
When two or more commercial trucks are involved in a truck accident, one of the most common causes of such an accident is fatigue that causes the driver of one 18-wheeler truck to run into the rear of a second big rig commercial truck.
If you’ve been involved in a commercial truck accident, on the freeway, on a rural road or around town, or by a landscaping truck, garbage truck or delivery truck, call the offices of Coachella Valley Big Rig Truck Accident Lawyer Sebastian Gibson immediately. Our office will go into motion without delay to preserve evidence crucial to your case. Whether your accident is in the Coachella Valley, Orange County or anywhere in California, the right choice for you and your family after a truck collision resulting in injuries or loss of life is Coachella Valley Big Rig Truck Accident Attorney Sebastian Gibson.
