Truck Accident Lawyer in Petaluma, CA

If you or a loved one has suffered catastrophic injuries in a truck accident in Petaluma or Sonoma County, you need an accomplished legal team with decades of securing results against even the largest trucking companies. Choose the dedicated truck accident lawyers at Moseley Collins Law to fight for maximum compensation after your devastating crash.

For over 40 years, our firm has helped severely injured victims and grieving families recover fair financial restitution from negligent truckers and carriers who cause life-changing wrecks. Call us at 800-426-5546 for a free consultation on seeking the damages you require to move forward.

When a loaded big rig, tanker truck, 18-wheeler or other commercial motor vehicle smashes your family’s small sedan, questions understandably arise over what triggered the devastating collision.

Our veteran truck accident lawyers have seen just about every cause of truck crashes during 40+ years of investigating cases. We know a trucker’s 80,000-pound rig needs over 300 feet just to brake moderately at highway speeds. Their mammoth size and weight make trucks extremely difficult to maneuver. When driver errors or equipment failures occur, the consequences readily turn catastrophic:

• Speeding/Unsafe Speeds - Traveling too fast given conditions
• Distracted Driving - Eating, texting, talking while driving
• Fatigued Driving - Violating rest regulations
• Impaired Driving - Drugs, alcohol or medical issues
• Poor Maintenance - Brake, steering and tech malfunctions
• Unbalanced Loads - Improper cargo weighing/loading
• Unsafe Routes - Taking dangerous downhill grades/sharp turns
• Jackknifing - Losing control while turning

Truck drivers and trucking companies have legal duties to responsibly operate rigs without undue risks to other motorists. But when they breach these obligations through negligence, they must provide fair compensation to cover victims’ extensive costs and losses from resulting wrecks.

That is why choosing knowledgeable truck accident counsel is critical after crashes. Moseley Collins Law’s lawyers have intimate mastery of state and federal trucking safety regulations complex to the typical layperson.

When violations cause collisions, we leverage findings to force carriers, shippers and insurance firms to pay. Focus on healing, while we fight for your financial rights.

Moseley Collins Law goes the extra mile in investigating what caused collisions and proving who bears responsibility for clients' suffering. We are recognized as leaders in truck litigation with:

• Reputation Taking on Major Trucking Companies
• 40+ Years of Experience Recovering Millions for Clients
• Thorough Probes Using Accident Experts Proving Truck Driver Negligence
• Aggressive Pursuit of Maximum Settlements for Injuries/Losses
• No Fees Unless We Win or Settle Your Case

When you become a client, we immediately get to work utilizing our legal resources and connections to establish irrefutable negligence by truck drivers and companies. We then calculate and demand full restitution for clients’ present and future medical expenses, lost income, pain and emotional distress damages plus other losses stemming from the truck wreck.

Truck crashes often result in particularly catastrophic injuries - from traumatic brain damage and paralysis to severe burns and even wrongful death. As the injured party struggling to cope with health impacts and bills piling up, you need an unwavering advocate in your corner evening the odds against trucking insurance carriers eager to deny full liability.

In the chaos following catastrophic truck collisions, crash victims rightfully concentrate on emergency care and initial medical treatment. But gaining evidence from accident scenes ASAP remains critical for future legal claims against truckers and trucking firms.

The Moseley Collins Law team immediately gets to work on clients’ behalf:

• Photographing accident scene damage
• Collecting police reports
• Interviewing eyewitnesses onsite
• Retrieving erased electronic trucking data
• Researching carrier compliance audits
• Documenting weather/road conditions
• Obtaining medical evaluation records

Why do truck companies quickly dispatch accident investigators of their own? So, they can shift blame, refute valid injury claims and evade paying victims’ damages in full – or anything at all.

Trucking firms self-insure up to $750K - $5M per accident so they have tremendous financial incentive to deny fault and restrict payouts. That is why retaining a powerhouse firm immediately post-crash remains vital. We have ample resources to stand toe-to-toe with even the most aggressive corporate defense lawyers and adjusters.

For over 40 years, Moseley Collins Law has fought and beaten dozens of major carriers and insurance groups – from FedEx, UPS and Schneider National to KAG, Canal and Great West Casualty Company. When they see we have strong evidence confirming their liability due to negligence or violations, they understand a multi-million dollar result looms unless settling.

While you take it one day at a time recovering, we tenaciously handle everything needed to build your claim against all responsible parties - freeing you to focus energy on what matters most, your rehabilitation and family.

If injured in a truck accident locally, contacting the area police remains essential. Here are the main law enforcement departments and stations near Petaluma, CA responsible for responding to truck collisions, conducting crash scene investigations, securing evidence and taking witness statements:

Petaluma Police Department
969 Petaluma Blvd. North
Petaluma, CA 94952
(707) 778-4372

California Highway Patrol - Napa Area Office
1034 Imola Ave
Napa, CA 94559
(707) 625-1100

Sonoma County Sheriff's Office
2796 Ventura Ave.
Santa Rosa, CA 95403 (707) 565-3941

Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety
500 City Center Drive Rohnert Park, CA 94928 (707) 584-2612

Fast reporting of truck crashes alerts police so personnel can be promptly dispatched while accident forensics remain fresh. But for legal claims, our Moseley Collins Law truck litigation team takes charge contacting officers, acquiring police reports and using findings to establish causations and culpability where carriers, shippers or drivers acted irresponsibly.

Numerous major Northern California highways and heavily-used Sonoma County roads pass through the Petaluma area resulting in significant daily truck traffic flows:

• U.S. 101 Highway – Heavily-traveled highway bringing semis and commercial transport trucks barreling through Petaluma and Sonoma County. Big rigs use it to reach the Pacific Coast or as a cut across between I-80 and I-5.
• State Highway 116 – Significant work commuter traffic mixes with commercial trucks hauling towards Sonoma Raceway and between Marin County, Sonoma Valley wine region and North Bay suburbs.
• State Highway 121 – Route heads out of Petaluma connecting Sonoma wine country to Napa Valley across Carneros region mountain roadways utilized by beverage distributor and agricultural farm trucks.
• East Washington Street - Main Petaluma artery and extension of State Highway 116 bringing tremendous local commuter vehicles blending with regional supplier trucks.
• North McDowell Blvd – Key city thoroughfare accessing western commercial and industrial areas seeing FedEx, UPS and other delivery trucks plus routine semi-trailer rigs, concrete mixers.
• D Street – Crosses Petaluma north of downtown accessing Highway 101 interchanges used by heavy southbound truck traffic with risky merging.

Within Sonoma County, treacherous mountain/hill grades, narrow bridges, blind rural curves and high-volume Highway 101 interchange zones pose substantial hazards - especially when big rigs, flatbeds and car haulers travel at excessive speeds or drift crossing lanes. When truckers drive negligently given road conditions, their massive vehicles can wipe out entire families in seconds.

Moseley Collins Law's elite team of trucking safety specialists use local field expertise, crash reconstruction analysis and operating records procurement proving what triggered devastating Sonoma County-area collisions. Then we build strong negligence claims to recover maximum damages from truck insurers covering victims’ tremendous losses.

The accomplished semi truck accident lawyers at Moseley Collins Law help injury victims throughout Sonoma County, CA and surrounding Northern California areas including:

• Santa Rosa
• Rohnert Park
• Sonoma
• Windsor
• Healdsburg
• Sebastopol

We also aid clients across greater Bay Area counties like:

• Napa County
• Solano County
• Marin County
• Contra Costa County

And represent Central Valley residents from metros:

• Sacramento
• Stockton
• Modesto
• Fairfield

Our devotion and successful track record supports clients from San Francisco to Eureka down through Fresno and Bakersfield. Every community deserves access to strong legal advocates when victims suffer severe harm due to preventable truck collisions. Moseley Collins Law works tirelessly to secure the maximum results clients require to cover damages and long-term care costs to restore their lives fully after catastrophic truck crashes.