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The first priority of trucking companies is profits. Safety comes second. Truck accident cases often can be traumatic because of a truck's large size. Where damages are severe, multiple parties are involved, and injuries are serious, having a lawyer evaluate your case can help you recover the compensation you deserve.

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Posted January 25, 2021
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Gravel Truck Crash Victim Retains McMinn Law Firm
Austin Gravel Truck Wreck Victim Retains McMinn Law Firm Representing a driver hurt in last week’s heavily publicized gravel truck crash in Austin, personal injury lawyer Justin McMinn filed a lawsuit against Marcos Trucking Corp.
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Posted November 18, 2020
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Texas Motorcycle Law: Lane Splitting
Lane splitting in Texas is an often contested and wondered about practice for motorcycle riders. While it’s never safe to do in fast moving traffic, lane splitting has been made legal in one state. As motorcycle injury lawyers, it’s important to stay up-to-date on how state and local traffic laws move into law. See where…
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Posted January 22, 2020

Why You Shouldn’t Call It an Accident
This week New York Times reported that the persistence of collisions may have a correlation with societal apathy. “Language can be everything” they say, and could our semantics be at the root of an increase in traffic fatalities? Advocates for traffic safety are calling for media and policy makers to drop the word “accident” for “crash.” As more cities…
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Posted October 24, 2019
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Truck Accident Lawyers
On this Page: Bastrop School Bus Involved in Crash with Tractor Trailer Laws regulating trucking industry How new laws save lives Reality of truck crashes and personal injury claims Bastrop School Bus in a Crash with 18-Wheeler on Highway 71 Wednesday morning a Bastrop school bus was involved in a crash on SH 71. About…
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Posted March 8, 2017

Investigations in deadly bus, train crash in Biloxi continue
Four seniors on a trip from Bastrop died in a tragic train-bus crash in Biloxi, Mississippi. As authorities uncover details for the case, families search for answers. Update: March 8, 2017 Authorities in Biloxi, Mississippi have released developments from the fatal bus, train crash. Personal Injury Attorney Jason McMinn Discusses Dangers of Railroad Crossings on…
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Posted August 14, 2015
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The Real Effects of Binge Drinking
August marches on, the temperature is climbing, and students from the local universities are beginning to trickle back into this not-so-tiny college town. As students begin to gather in classes and parties, a particular tendency of young American adults begins to resurface: binge drinking. The National Institute for Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism defines binge drinking…
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Posted August 3, 2015

Moran Fuentes & Resendiz Killed In 18-wheeler Crash on I35 in Austin
18-Wheeler Crash on I-35 Claims Two Lives Recently there was a tragic accident near Rundberg Lane involving an 18-wheeler and a pick up truck. Telesfora Moran Fuentes, 46, and Yesenia Nayeli Resendiz, 23, from Oklahoma City both were killed in this tragedy. Five other souls were wounded critically, three of whom were children taken to the Dell Children’s Medical…
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Posted March 27, 2015
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News Digest: Salado I-35 Truck Accidents, Falling Beam Kills Clark Davis
Salado Truck Accident Victim Identified As Clark Davis, 32, of Arlington Events Timeline & News Digest (from www.mcminnlaw.com) Below are quotes and news story references related to the multiple truck accidents and bridge beam fall to I 35 in Salado, TX. This information is updated as more stories break. Update: March 27, 2015 The fatality…
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Posted October 25, 2014
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McMinn Auto Accident Lawyer’s Win In American Association For Justice
With permission from American Association for Justice, here is the text of the article in full: "Side underride guard could have prevented motorist's death, estate claimed "Sun v Lufkin Indus., L.L.C., No. 20140CI-04970 (Tex., Bexar Co. Jud. Dist. June 5, 2014). "Kuo-Tung Sun, 47, was driving in one of two west-bound lanes of a state…
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Posted April 27, 2010
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Facts About Accidents Involving Truck Driver Fatigue
Each year over 750 people die at the mercy of fatigued truck drivers, and more than 200,000 are injured, according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. It isn’t only the occupants of the passenger vehicle that are killed in driver-fatigue trucking accidents, around 600 truck drivers die each year in these accidents as well.…
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