Collisions Between Two Large Vehicles
Everyone makes mistakes when driving. This is why the law requires all vehicle owners in New Jersey to carry liability insurance. It is also why, in certain parts of the Garden State, drivers still routinely trade insults and the occasional obscene gesture even when they manage to avoid a collision. The bigger the vehicle, the more damage it can do. This is why you need more than a regular, personal driver’s license if you are going to drive a whopping vehicle like a bus or a commercial truck. With vehicles like this, you endanger many more people besides the occupants of your own vehicle if you make a mistake. It follows, then, that the companies that own these vehicles carry insurance policies with policy limits sufficient to cover the damages caused by major accidents, where multiple people suffer severe injuries. When the accident includes more than one commercial vehicle, it might not always be immediately clear which company bears which share of liability for the accident. If you suffered injuries in an accident where two or more of the vehicles involved were commercial vehicles, contact a New Jersey auto accident lawyer.
Drivers and Passengers Injured When City Bus Collides With Utility Truck
On August 12, morning rush hour had ended, and work vehicles were making repairs near the intersection of 15th Avenue and Bedford Street. PSE&G Utility workers had removed a utility pole, which disrupted electricity to the surrounding area. The outage affected two apartment buildings, a senior living community, and two traffic lights.
The traffic light outage might have been what caused the driver of an NJ Transit bus to make an error. The bus collided with a PSE&G truck that was stopped at the side of the road near the site of the repairs. The bus was transporting 12 passengers at the time of the accident; a witness said that the passengers seemed to have suffered injuries to their faces and feet. Ambulances transported all 12 bus passengers to nearby hospitals, as well as the drivers of the bus and the truck. None of the 14 vehicle occupants involved in the accident had life-threatening injuries.
On a surface level, the fault for the accident seems to belong to the bus driver who failed to avoid hitting the utility truck, even though it was a large, stationary obstacle. More likely, though, the City of Newark. Leaving two traffic lights non-operational during daytime driving hours is dangerous. The city could have done more to avoid collisions, such as having police direct traffic until traffic light service was restored, or blocking off the area of road where the utility truck was stopped.
Contact Monaco Law About Commercial Vehicle Accidents
Contact Monaco Law PC in New Jersey to discuss your commercial vehicle accident case. Joseph Monaco is a New Jersey wrongful death and personal injury lawyer serving Atlantic County, Burlington County, Cape May County, Camden County, Cumberland County, Gloucester County, Mercer County, Middlesex County, Ocean County, Salem County and all of New Jersey.
Source:
newjersey.news12.com/14-injured-when-nj-transit-bus-crashes-into-pseg-truck-in-newark
