Scranton, Pennsylvania
Scranton, Pennsylvania, the county seat of Lackawanna County, is in the northeastern part of Pennsylvania at the foothills of the Pocono Mountains. Originally named Uniontown, the community is located in the Lackawanna River Valley. Scranton's close proximity to major metropolitan markets such as Philadelphia, New York City, Northern New Jersey, Harrisburg, and Syracuse has positioned the city as an attractive business location.
Due to a vast interstate highway network, with five interstate highways converging in Scranton, many companies have chosen to locate major manufacturing, back-office, and distribution facilities in Scranton. Scranton is served by the the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport in Avoca, nine miles southwest of Scranton. The main highways servicing Scranton are Interstate 81, which runs south to Harrisburg, Interstate 84, Interstate 380, Interstate 80, Interstate 476, the Pennsylvania Turnpike Northeast Extension (which runs south to Allentown and Philadelphia), U.S. Route 6, and U.S. Route 11. From Scranton, trucks can reach 80 million North American consumers overnight.
Scranton, along with all of Lackawanna County, has been seeing increased truck traffic from natural gas wells at Marcellus Shale drilling sites. According to a Times-Tribune June 2010 article, Pennsylvania authorities found environmental and safety violations on more than 130 trucks hauling waste water from natural gas wells during a three-day enforcement blitz covering four counties. Of the 210 commercial vehicles ordered out of service for violations, 131 were transporting waste water used in the process called hydraulic fracturing. Inspectors especially looked for safety deficiencies that could lead to crashes.
In 2008, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, there were 19 fatal motor vehicle crashes on Lackawanna County's roadways. Large trucks were responsible for 195 fatal crashes in Pennsylvania during 2008 or 9.6% of all fatal accidents within PA. Over 80% of these fatal tractor trailer accidents involved collisions with another motor vehicle, and over 50% of these accidents were front end collisions. The vast majority of heavy truck crashes involving vehicle failures as primary contributing factors in the crash were related to brakes, tires and wheels, and unsecured or overloaded trailers.
The Greater Scranton area has exploded with commercial growth, attracting dozens of significant national retailers, including the Mall at Steamtown, a 700,000 square foot multimillion dollar retail complex, located in the heart of Scranton’s downtown commercial district. Scranton hosts many architecturally interesting buildings from the early 1900s, including the William J. Nealon Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse on Washington Ave. The William J. Nealon Court House currently houses the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania as well as a U.S. Post Office.
The industries that fueled the city's growth in the later part of the 1800s were iron and steel. Scranton forged ahead as the center of Pennsylvania's anthracite coal industry in the early 1900s. After World War II, coal began losing favor to other energy sources and the population of Scranton began to diminish. Since the mid 1980s the emphasis has been on revitalization of the historic areas of Scranton. Abandoned properties were redesigned and marketed as tourist attractions such as the former DL&W train station, now restored as the Radisson Lackawanna Station Hotel, a six story historic landmark.
Today, Scranton is the geographic and cultural center of the Lackawanna River Valley and many of Scranton's attractions celebrate the heritage of an industrial center in iron and coal production.
Scranton Pennsylvania Truck Accident Lawyers
Lackawanna County, which includes Scranton, had 2,500 traffic crashes in 2008 and 22 deaths in traffic accidents. When the collision on a Scranton highway involves large trucks such as semi-trailers, 18 wheelers, flatbeds and garbage trucks, the crash is more likely to result in serious injuries and fatalities to the occupants of other vehicles. Two people in Scranton/Lackawanna County died in large truck accident in 2008.
If you or a loved one has been seriously injured in a large truck accident in Scranton or Lackawanna County, you need a truck accident lawyer with a proven record of standing up to trucking companies and protecting the rights of truck accident victims.
The experienced truck accident attorneys at Munley, Munley & Cartwright, P.C., obtained a $6.9 million settlement— the largest known civil settlement in the history of Lackawanna County Court—for an East Strasbourg couple, whose five-year-old son was killed and eight-year-old daughter critically injured when a garbage truck rammed their vehicle. While no amount of money will bring back a lost loved one, negligent truck drivers and trucking companies in Scranton, Lackawanna County and throughout Pennsylvania should be held accountable for the harm they do.
Munley, Munley & Cartwright, P.C., secured a $1.3 million jury verdict for a Clarks Summit woman for injuries she suffered in an Interstate 81 truck accident when an 18 wheeler driver suddenly changed lanes into the left lane of I-81 where she was driving.
The truck injury lawyers at Munley, Munley & Cartwright, P.C., focus on commercial truck accident cases and are experienced at analyzing and negotiating complex truck wreck cases on behalf of our clients. Contact an experienced truck injury attorney at Munley, Munley & Cartwright, P.C., for a free consultation by completing our online accident evaluation form or calling toll free 877-421-9175.
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