Truck Accident Lawyer in Encinitas, CA

Commercial trucks traveling along Interstate 5 and other major highways surround the Encinitas area. Their sheer size and weight pose grave dangers when these massive vehicles crash into smaller passenger cars. Suffering catastrophic injuries with overwhelming financial consequences, victims require an assertive advocate to fight for maximum compensation.

If you or a loved one suffered harm in a truck accident in Encinitas or anywhere in San Diego County, immediately contact the accomplished truck accident lawyers at Moseley Collins Law. For over 40 years, we have helped truck crash victims recover millions in settlements and results from drivers, trucking companies, parts manufacturers and other liable entities. Time is of the essence to preserve evidence and fully protect your rights.

A fully loaded semi-truck can weigh over 80,000 pounds--30 times the weight of a typical SUV. When speeding down highways at 60-70 mph near Encinitas, these enormous rigs require football field lengths just to make a complete stop. Add reckless, negligent or impaired truck drivers to the mix, and horrendous outcomes result.

In their aftermath, overturned big rigs often leave smaller vehicles crushed beyond recognition. According to the most recent data from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, 4,136 people were killed and an additional 116,000 injured in crashes involving large trucks and buses in 2019 nationwide.

Common truck crash injuries include:

• Spinal Cord Damage
• Traumatic Brain Injuries
• Internal Organ Damage
• Broken Bones
• Amputations
• Severe Burns
• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Because truckers must carry at minimum $750,000 to $1 million insurance policies under state and federal regulations, seeking maximum damages up to available policy limits proves essential with such serious harm in play.

As experienced litigators, Moseley Collins Law pursues full damages truck accidents cause, including:

• Past & Future Medical Expenses
• Medical Transportation
• Lost Income
• Loss of Future Earning Capacity
• Cost of At-home Care
• Permanent Disabilities
• Disfigurement
• Physical Impairment
• Emotional Distress
• Loss of Consortium
• Pain and Suffering

We also bring wrongful death claims for surviving families who lose loved ones.

If you or a loved one are involved in a truck accident, seek immediate medical assistance and report the collision to one of the following police stations in the Encinitas area:

Encinitas Sheriff’s Station
175 N. El Camino Real
Encinitas, CA 92024
760-966-3600

The Encinitas Sheriff's Station provides law enforcement services to Encinitas, Leucadia, Cardiff-by-the-Sea, and Olivenhain areas.

San Diego County Highway Patrol
9330 Farnham St
San Diego, CA 92123
619-220-5492

The San Diego CHP office dispatches officers and assists in investigations for accidents occurring on local highways and interstates.

Carlsbad Police Department
2560 Orion Way
Carlsbad, CA, 92010
760-931-2197

The Carlsbad Police Department assists with accidents that occur within Carlsbad city limits near the Encinitas border.

Some of the largest trucking, shipping, and logistics companies with substantial operations near Encinitas include:

• FedEx Freight
• UPS Ground Freight
• Old Dominion Freight Line
• Western Express
• U.S. Xpress
• Estenson Logistics

When commercial carriers like these act negligently on highways surrounding Encinitas, our truck accident lawyers hold them fully accountable.

As a coastal community situated between Los Angeles and San Diego, Encinitas sits along numerous heavily-traveled trucking routes, including:

• Interstate 5: Heavily-traveled major North-South Route hugging the Pacific Coast from Mexico to Canada.
• California Route 78: East-West highway beginning in Oceanside and merging into I-5.
• California Route 101: North-South scenic highway through Encinitas between LA and San Diego.
• El Camino Real: Historic roadway running right through downtown Encinitas.

No matter which highway, road or street a truck crash occurs on, Moseley Collins Law thoroughly investigates liability.

The truck accident lawyers at Moseley Collins Law provide aggressive representation to injured victims throughout Southern California, including:

• Cardiff-by-the-Sea
• Carlsbad
• Del Mar
• Encinitas
• Escondido
• Fallbrook
• La Jolla
• Leucadia
• Oceanside
• San Diego
• San Marcos
• Solana Beach
• Vista

Suffering catastrophic injuries in a truck crash often leads to overwhelming financial consequences and reduced quality of life. While no amount of money can reverse permanent disabilities or loss of a loved one, obtaining compensation for your losses can help you move forward.

If someone else caused your truck accident injuries in California through reckless or negligent actions, you have a right to hold them accountable. An experienced lawyer will fight to help recover full and fair compensation.

Economic damages in trucking accident cases compensate concrete financial losses stemming from a crash. These include both expenses already incurred and costs expected in the future due to disaster impacts.

Past, current and future medical bills fall under economic damages, covering expenses like emergency transport, hospitalization, surgeries, specialty doctor visits, medications, medical equipment and at-home nursing care required for recovery and rehabilitation.

If injuries force you to miss work for any period, calculate lost wages. Reimbursements account for earnings you could reasonably have expected to earn were it not for a catastrophic truck crash.

Similarly, if disabilities inhibit returning to a previous career or reduce ability to work full-time going forward, factor diminished future earning capabilities into economic damages.

Non-economic losses involve harder to quantify, but still profoundly life-altering impacts accidents cause. Compensation aims restoring quality of life best as possible.

A damage category no one wants added to the ledger, pain and suffering provides compensation for both physical anguish and emotional distress resulting from truck accident trauma.

In severe injury cases, recovery can disrupt marital relations, family life and friendships, cutting off critical emotional support networks when needed most. Loss of consortium addresses such relationship strains.

By fully understanding both tangible as well as intangible accident costs, truck injury victims gain clarity on the scope of damages law provides. An assertive lawyer leaves no compensation category unpursued when negotiating legal settlements or trying cases in court.

With convenient offices around California, Moseley Collins Law provides responsive legal guidance truck accident victims throughout Southern California require to emerge positively. What advantages do clients gain by retaining us?

Since opening our doors over four decades ago, the firm’s lawyers have extensively litigated truck accident cases specifically, not just dabbled when more lucrative opportunities did not pan out. Seasoned in the intricate legal details these technically complex cases entail, no nuance gets missed.

We dedicate tremendous resources to fighting for truck accident victims instead of juggling family law disputes, bankruptcy filings and criminal defenses on the side. Staying laser-focused on transportation litigation allows our lawyers to glean deeper insight into intricate legal and technical details that winning results and settlements require.

While past outcomes never guarantee future results, Moseley Collins Law lawyers have successfully fought for Southern California truck accident victims for decades, recovering substantial results and settlements clients require to move lives forward positively.

Because we stand behind our reputation, pursuing maximum damages against negligent truckers and companies, Moseley Collins Law works on contingency. We only collect if your case succeeds, deducting reasonable fees and costs from amounts recovered.

Injuries often prevent traveling significant distances immediately following collisions. As your fierce advocates, Moseley Collins Law lawyers make house calls within Encinitas and reasonable distances beyond at your convenience during recoveries.