Truck accidents cause some of the most catastrophic injuries we have seen at McGowan, Hood, Felder & Phillips, LLC. The destructive force that can be wielded by a fully-loaded seventy or eighty thousand pound 18-wheeler at highway speed (65 mph) is best described in the language of physics. The truck’s energy of movement (its kinetic energy) would be able to produce enough power to light your home – one kilowatt – for nearly an hour; that of a four thousand pound car traveling at the same speed would produce that single kilowatt for only about twelve minutes. Small wonder then, that when trucks and cars collide at highway speed 72 percent of the fatalities are among occupants of the cars...more