Rear Ended by a New Penn Truck:
Lawsuit for Injury and Wrongful Death

Rear Ended by a New Penn Truck: Company Information

New Penn Motor Express, Inc. (US DOT# 10670) is a YRC Regional Transportation company that transports goods in the Northeastern United States, Quebec, Canada and Puerto Rico. In the two years prior to September 16, 2010, Penn Motor trucks were involved in 56 accidents, 3 of them resulting in wrongful deathl and 27 of them resulting in personal injury.¹

New Penn's insurance carrier for bodily injury and wrongful death is OLD REPUBLIC INSURANCE CO. If you or a loved one was in an accident with a New Penn truck, you will get a call from new Penn or Old Republic Insurance Company. You should not talk to them because their goal is to limit their liability, meaning they want to minimize your compensation.

New Penn Motor Express operates a fleet of over 850 tractors and 1,700 trailers. Its service area includes the following states:

Connecticut
Delaware
Maine
Maryland
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Vermont

Under the law, the driver of a semi trailer or other commercial truck must use more care than other drivers to avoid a rear end collision. The reason is obvious: an empty semi truck can weigh 30,000 pounds. We look for evidence of any of the following:

Speeding or driving too fast for the conditions
Distraction
Driving too close to the car, motorcycle or other vehicle just before the accident

We also look at whether the road conditions or other circumstances (road construction or the weather, for example) would have required the driver to drive more cautiously.

Footnotes:

1. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

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Rear Ended by a New Penn Truck: Lawsuit for Injury and Wrongful Death