Semi-trucks, garbage trucks, cement trucks, buses, or any such huge heavy vehicles are often called “moving barriers” during personal injury claims. Medical experts and biomechanical engineers use this term because, whether someone driving a normal vehicle hits something of this magnitude or vice versa, the occupant of the car or motorcycle may as well have crashed straight into a concrete wall.
All of the impact and substantial force involved end up directed toward the person in the smaller vehicle because of the difference in size and mass. Tragically, this often results in truly horrible injuries. When victims of trucking accidents are lucky enough to survive, they will often suffer spinal injuries or traumatic brain injuries just because of the force involved.
These vehicles are extremely dangerous and must be treated with utmost caution on the road. Accidents with them are all too frequently fatal, and the injuries suffered by survivors are virtually always serious and life-changing.
This also makes the personal injury claims afterward, which are needed to recover the costs and losses associated with such accidents, incredibly important. This means you need to be very careful about preserving what evidence you can at the scene.