Truck Accident Help in All 50 States
Where your crash happened decides your deadline and your fault rules. Tennessee gives most injury victims just one year; Missouri gives five. Four states — Alabama, Maryland, North Carolina, and Virginia — can bar recovery over any share of fault, while others only reduce it. Your state's page lays out the deadline (with its statute), the fault rule in plain English, the freight corridors that shape local truck traffic, and city-level pages for major metros.
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Texas
Injury deadline: 2 years from the crash date for most injury claims (Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 16.003); wrongful death runs 2 years from the date of death
Deadlines, fault rules & local helpCalifornia
Injury deadline: 2 years (Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 335.1)
Deadlines, fault rules & local helpFlorida
Injury deadline: 2 years for negligence claims arising from crashes on or after March 24, 2023 (HB 837; older crashes may have had 4)
Deadlines, fault rules & local helpGeorgia
Injury deadline: 2 years (O.C.G.A. § 9-3-33)
Deadlines, fault rules & local helpTennessee
Injury deadline: 1 year — one of the shortest in the nation (Tenn. Code § 28-3-104)
Deadlines, fault rules & local helpLouisiana
Injury deadline: 2 years for crashes on or after July 1, 2024 (La. C.C. art. 3493.1); crashes before that date had only 1 year
Deadlines, fault rules & local helpIllinois
Injury deadline: 2 years (735 ILCS 5/13-202)
Deadlines, fault rules & local helpOhio
Injury deadline: 2 years (Ohio Rev. Code § 2305.10)
Deadlines, fault rules & local helpPennsylvania
Injury deadline: 2 years (42 Pa. C.S. § 5524)
Deadlines, fault rules & local helpNorth Carolina
Injury deadline: 3 years (N.C.G.S. § 1-52)
Deadlines, fault rules & local helpArizona
Injury deadline: 2 years (A.R.S. § 12-542)
Deadlines, fault rules & local helpNew Mexico
Injury deadline: 3 years (N.M.S.A. § 37-1-8)
Deadlines, fault rules & local helpOklahoma
Injury deadline: 2 years (12 O.S. § 95)
Deadlines, fault rules & local helpMissouri
Injury deadline: 5 years (Mo. Rev. Stat. § 516.120)
Deadlines, fault rules & local helpDeadlines shown are general rules — exceptions can shorten or extend them. Each state page includes the full picture.
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