The brown UPS package car is one of the most familiar vehicles on Illinois streets, and familiarity hides how dangerous delivery work is for everyone around it. Package cars make constant stops, back frequently, park where cars are not meant to park, and run demanding routes on the clock. A UPS delivery truck accident is different from an ordinary crash in one key way: the driver is a UPS employee and UPS answers for the harm.
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The crash patterns are the predictable product of the work: backing over or into people the driver never saw, pulling out from a curb or driveway into traffic, striking pedestrians and cyclists in neighborhoods and school zones, and rear-end collisions at stops the driver misjudged. UPS vehicles carry data, and the company documents its routes; that evidence, from telematics to delivery scans to camera footage, is what turns a disputed story into a proven one. It has to be demanded early.
A loaded package car is many times heavier than a passenger car, and it strikes high. Crashes at city speeds routinely cause brain injuries, spine injuries, and fractures, and backing crashes involving people on foot are among the worst we see; CDC brain injury data shows why no head injury from a crash should be dismissed as minor. Life-changing injuries belong with our catastrophic injury team from the start.
Photograph everything, including the vehicle number on the package car. Get medical attention immediately, even if you feel able to walk it off; adrenaline hides injuries. Report it, and get the crash report when it is ready. Then talk to a lawyer before you talk to the company’s insurer, and before you post anything about the crash anywhere.
What a driver says at the scene rarely decides anything. The company’s insurer, not the driver, controls the claim, and it will evaluate your case based on the evidence and on how thoroughly it has been built.
It adds a workers’ compensation claim alongside the injury case, and coordinating the two properly protects your net recovery. We handle that coordination.
For the full picture of how UPS cases work, start with our Illinois UPS accident lawyer page, or see the UPS semi-truck page if your crash involved a tractor-trailer. These cases proceed under Illinois commercial vehicle law, and we handle them end to end.
And when the UPS vehicle involved is a feeder semi rather than a package car, our Illinois truck accident team takes the case from there.
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John D. Risvold is an equity partner at Collins Law Group, P.C. in Naperville, Illinois. He represents individuals and families in catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death cases, focusing on commercial trucking crashes, rideshare and autonomous vehicle litigation, medical malpractice and birth injury, and product defect claims. He has tried cases to verdict in Illinois courts, recovered more than $50 million for clients over thirteen years of practice, and has been named to Best Lawyers in America for Personal Injury Litigation and Illinois Super Lawyers.
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