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Great Hills, TX Truck Accident Lawyer
Big trucks have blind spots the size of a car on every side, and a Great Hills driver caught in one can be sideswiped or crushed in an instant. SMB Law, PC helps people hurt in truck blind-spot and turning crashes. A Great Hills truck accident lawyer knows a truck’s blind spots and wide turns cause crashes the driver should have prevented. Shane has been licensed since 2003 and personally proves how a Central Texas blind-spot or turning crash happened.
Great Hills’ interchanges and merges along US-183 and Mopac put cars right alongside trucks changing lanes and making wide turns — exactly where no-zone crashes happen.
Where a Great Hills truck accident claim is handled
Great Hills is in Travis County, so a lawsuit is filed with the Travis County District Clerk at the Civil and Family Courthouse on Guadalupe Street in Austin. Most claims settle with the carrier’s insurer before suit.
Blind spots, wide turns, and no-zone crashes
A tractor-trailer has large no-zones — blind spots directly in front, close behind, and along both sides, worst on the right — where the driver cannot see a nearby car. Crashes happen when a trucker changes lanes into a vehicle they never saw, swings wide for a right turn and traps a car in the resulting gap (a ‘right-turn squeeze’), or backs without a spotter. Truck drivers are trained to account for these blind spots and to signal and check before every maneuver, so a no-zone crash usually reflects a driver who failed to do what their training requires — not an unavoidable accident. The defense will often argue the car was in the blind spot and therefore at fault; the evidence — mirror sightlines, the truck’s camera and turn-signal data, and the geometry of the impact — frequently shows the trucker had both the duty and the chance to avoid it. We investigate Great Hills blind-spot crashes to place responsibility where the training and the physical proof put it.
Answering the ‘blind spot’ blame game
Almost every Great Hills blind-spot case draws the same defense: the car was where the trucker could not see it, so the car is at fault. The answer is that a professional driver’s duty does not end at the edge of a mirror — they are trained to know their no-zones, to signal early, to check and re-check, and to yield when they cannot confirm a lane is clear. We rebut the blame-shifting with evidence: the truck’s forward and side camera footage, turn-signal and steering data from its electronic systems, the mirror configuration, and a reconstruction of each vehicle’s position in the seconds before impact. Shown properly, that record usually establishes that the crash was the trucker’s to prevent — and keeps a Great Hills client from absorbing fault for being in a spot the driver was responsible for clearing.
Decades of Texas injury experience on your side
Truck cases are bigger, better-defended, and more document-heavy than ordinary crashes, and that is where experience counts. You work directly with attorney Shane M. Boasberg, who has represented injured Texans for more than two decades and has been licensed by the State of Texas since 2003. He understands how trucking companies and their insurers build a defense, what records to demand, and how Central Texas juries respond to a serious commercial-vehicle case. You get a lawyer who has handled the pressure of these claims — not a case manager reading from a script.
Working with us from Great Hills
Our office is in downtown Austin, an easy reach from Great Hills. We handle most consultations and case updates by phone and video, and there is no fee unless we recover for you. If travel is difficult, we can also come to you.
Why injured clients choose SMB Law, PC
- Direct attorney access — you talk to Shane, licensed since 2003, not a call center.
- No fee unless we recover — truck-injury cases are handled on a contingency basis.
- Honest advice and transparent terms explained before you commit.
What working with us looks like
- Free consultation to understand what happened and the law that applies.
- Investigation — we send preservation letters, obtain the truck’s records, and identify every insurer.
- Negotiation or court — we settle when the offer is fair and litigate when it is not.
- Recovery paid out and medical liens resolved so you keep more of it.
Frequently asked questions
What is a truck ‘no-zone’?
A truck’s blind spots — in front, behind, and on both sides — where the driver cannot see a nearby vehicle. The right side is the largest.
Who is at fault in a blind-spot truck crash?
Usually the truck driver, who is trained to account for blind spots and check before moving — though the defense often tries to blame the car.
What is a right-turn squeeze?
When a truck swings left to make a wide right turn and traps a vehicle in the gap it creates, causing a crash on the truck’s right side.
Do I have to travel to your office from Great Hills?
No. Our downtown Austin office is about 11 miles south via US-183 and Mopac, and we handle Great Hills claims by phone and video.