If you or your loved ones have been injured or killed in a truck accident, you need a trucking accident attorney to represent you and your family as you pursue your claim. Large trucking companies have their own investigators and attorneys fighting for them - you need someone on your side.



When tractor trailer collisions do occur, trucking companies involved in the accident often send representatives to the accident scene. These agents work to handle everything at the scene of the accident so that they can limit or mitigate their company’s liability and financial exposure. These companies’ representatives know that the best time to confront an accident victim in order to limit the trucking company's financial exposure is immediately following or soon after the wreck, when the collision victim is still in pain, on medication, worried about his job, family and future, and feeling especially pressured to find a source of money to pay bills while the collision victim is out of work because of his injuries.
 

The law firm of Teague & Glover, P.A. has been helping the victims of trucking accidents and their families in all of northeastern North Carolina, including Edenton, Elizabeth City and the Outer Banks, Gates County, Hertford County and Bertie County for over 25 years. Our firm has tried numerous cases and obtained some of the largest personal injury verdicts in northeastern North Carolina. We are proud that one of our attorneys, Danny Glover, Jr., has been elected to the Board of Governors of the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers for 2003-2006 and has been elected as the Chair of the AutoTorts Section of the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers.

Trucking accident claims involve special rules and regulations that apply to truckers and truck companies. Truck wrecks can happen due to a variety of reasons, such as:

• Trucking companies failing to run background checks on their truck drivers or continuing to allowing their truck drivers to drive big rigs, despite a history of carelessness and negligence
   
• Unrealistic schedules that encourage truck drivers to speed and violate other trucking safety laws
   
• A truck driver's failure to adjust for bad driving conditions (rain, snow, fog, etc.)
   
• Inadequate training
   
• Truck driver fatigue, intoxication, and/or drug use
   
• Overly aggressive driving by the truck driver
   
• Poor maintenance of the tractor-trailer
   
• Improper loading of the trailer

If you've been injured, an experienced trucking accident attorney can help you receive fair compensation for your injuries including lost wages, hospital bills, pain, suffering and aggravation. If your family has a wrongful death claim as a result of a trucking wreck, you may also be entitled to recover damages for your loved one's loss of earnings, medical and funeral bills and your family's pain and suffering, as well as the compensation for the loss of companionship, guidance and support.

If you have been injured in a trucking accident in northeastern North Carolina, including Williamston, Edenton, Ahoskie, Elizabeth City, or on the Outer Banks, contact our office today at 252-335-0878 to speak to an experienced trucking-accident attorney. Or, you may contact us online.