Ashtabula County Ohio Semi-Truck Accident Lawyer | Semi-Trailer Sideswipes Car Injuring Driver

City: Harpersfield, Ohio

County: Ashtabula County, Ohio

Date of Accident: April 20, 2011

Type of Accident: Car / Semi-Trailer

A 53 year-old male was driving south on State Road 534 in a 1992 Plymouth Sundance. A 50-year old truck driver in a semi-trailer allegedly ran through a flashing traffic signal, sideswiping the mid-size car. The truck driver was ticketed for failure to yield. The driver of the Plymouth suffered non-incapacitating injuries. His car also had to be towed from the scene due to serious, disabling damage.

There were 9,246 crashes involving heavy trucks in 2010. Semi-trailers were involved in 9,181 of them. Of the total heavy truck accidents, the truck drivers were found to be in error 57.3 % of the time. Heavy truck accidents resulted in 2,718 injuries altogether. There were 112 total crashes in the city of Harpersfield, OH (population 2,603) in 2010 resulting in 80 accidents that had only property damage and 32 injuries with no fatalities. In Ashtabula County (population 102,728) there were 2,296 total accidents with 1,631 accidents that had property damage, 656 that had accident related injuries and 9 deaths.

If you've been seriously injured or have lost a loved one in New Lyme, Geneva-on-the-Lake, Gould, Plymouth Center, or Harpersfield, please call the Ashtabula County Ohio car, truck, motorcycle and pedestrian accident and wrongful death attorneys / lawyers at Chester Law Group at 1-800-218-4243 or visit our video website and order your FREE BOOK entitled "The Insider's Guide to Handling Ohio Accident Claims" at www.ChesterLaw.com.