{"id":297,"date":"2013-01-29T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T10:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seidmanlaw-net.lawblogger.net\/blog\/illinois-truck-accidents-caused-by-a-range-of-factors\/"},"modified":"2022-06-29T17:11:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T22:11:00","slug":"illinois-truck-accidents-caused-by-a-range-of-factors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/blog\/illinois-truck-accidents-caused-by-a-range-of-factors\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Truck Accidents Caused By A Range Of Factors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"item-meta h3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/category\/legal-articles\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Legal Articles<\/a> | January 29, 2013<\/p>\n<p>Truck accidents are more likely to result in serious bodily harm or death than other types of accidents because of the sheer weight of most trucks, especially tractor-trailers and trucks carrying cargo. Because trucks are heavy, they build momentum at high speeds, making it hard for them to stop quickly. When a truck driver encounters a sudden change in road conditions or just becomes distracted and fails to pay attention to the road, the consequences can be dire. Heavy vehicles require more time and distance to stop, so even if the driver sees an obstacle many yards ahead, there still may not be enough time to stop. A range of factors, including distracted and sleepy drivers and poor weather conditions, cause truck accidents.<\/p>\n<h3>Distracted, Sleeping Drivers a Likely Culprit in Many Truck Accidents<\/h3>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/blog\/illinois-truck-accidents-caused-by-a-range-of-factors\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Illinois Truck Accidents Caused By A Range Of Factors\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legal Articles | January 29, 2013 Truck accidents are more likely to result in serious bodily harm or death than other types of accidents because of the sheer weight of most trucks, especially tractor-trailers and trucks carrying cargo. Because trucks are heavy, they build momentum at high speeds, making it hard for them to stop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-articles"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Illinois Truck Accidents Caused By a Range of Factors<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A range of factors, including distracted and sleepy drivers and poor weather conditions, cause truck accidents.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/blog\/illinois-truck-accidents-caused-by-a-range-of-factors\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Illinois Truck Accidents Caused By a Range of Factors\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"A range of factors, including distracted and sleepy drivers and poor weather conditions, cause truck accidents.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Seidman, Margulis &amp; 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