Truck crash claim: what can I do?

Interstate 81 — one of the most truck-dense corridors in the eastern United States — together with I-95, I-64 and I-66 routes heavy freight through the Shenandoah Valley, Roanoke and the I-95 corridor localities. Out-of-state carriers routinely remove cases to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (Alexandria, Richmond, Norfolk) or the Western District (Roanoke, Abingdon), where the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations apply. Virginia's two-year statute of limitations (Va. Code § 8.01-243) is unforgiving, and the Commonwealth remains one of only a handful of pure contributory-negligence jurisdictions: under Baskett v. Banks, a plaintiff found even one percent at fault recovers nothing. That doctrine makes early crash reconstruction, electronic control-module downloads and preservation of the driver's hours-of-service logs decisive in Virginia trucking litigation.