The short answer: maybe, but the part that can kill your case is not Arizona's two-year lawsuit deadline. It's the truck's electronic data getting wiped out way sooner.

That catches people off guard.

If a box truck hooked a wide right turn at an intersection in Scottsdale and clipped you in a company car while you were headed to a client meeting, there are really two clocks running at once. One is the legal deadline to sue. The other is the evidence clock. The second one is the one that does the damage fast.

Arizona gives you longer to sue than the truck gives you to save evidence

For a normal Arizona injury claim, the statute of limitations is usually two years from the crash date. If you miss that, you can lose the whole claim.

But event data recorder information, telematics, onboard cameras, GPS logs, and driver electronic logging records do not wait around for two years. Some systems overwrite in days. Some in weeks. Some keep partial data longer, but not always the piece you actually need.

And in a wide-right-turn crash, that data matters.

A box truck driver will often say you were in the blind spot, you came up too fast on the right, or you drifted into the turn path. The truck company may back that story before anyone even pulls the footage. Meanwhile the truck's speed, braking, throttle input, steering, route tracking, and camera data can quietly disappear.

That is where people get screwed.

Why wide-turn crashes turn into blame fights in Scottsdale

Scottsdale has plenty of intersections where this goes bad fast, especially around Scottsdale Road, Bell Road, Indian School Road, and the busier commercial strips near Airpark and South Scottsdale. Delivery and plant traffic mixes with commuters, rideshares, and work vans all day.

A truck making a wide right turn may swing left first, then cut hard right. If you are beside it in a smaller vehicle, the company may claim the turn was obvious and you should have backed off.

That argument gets louder if nobody locks down the truck's data early.

And if you work at a meatpacking plant, your schedule may not leave much room to deal with this. Early shifts. Long hours on your feet. Maybe you got back to work because missing a paycheck was not an option. Your employer may act like the crash is between you and the other driver because you were behind the wheel.

That is not the full picture.

Being on the clock changes the paperwork, not the truck company's exposure

If you were driving your employer's vehicle to a client stop, you were likely in the course of employment. That can trigger workers' comp issues for your injuries.

It does not automatically let the box truck company off the hook.

You may have a workers' comp claim and a third-party injury claim at the same time. Different systems. Different deadlines. Different insurance carriers. Your employer acting annoyed or distant does not rewrite Arizona law.

But delay still hurts. A lot.

The first month matters more than most people realize

If the crash already happened and nobody preserved the truck evidence, these are the time-sensitive pieces:

• the truck's event data recorder and telematics
• onboard or dash camera footage
• driver logs, dispatch records, and delivery route data
• intersection surveillance or nearby business video
• photos of vehicle damage before repairs
• your employer's vehicle usage records and trip assignment

This is especially true with commercial fleets running hard in Arizona. Spring is busy, and by summer the extreme heat starts wrecking tires and stressing vehicles statewide. Up on Valley freeways, 115-degree pavement can make bad maintenance show up in ugly ways. Down in Yuma, produce and agricultural truck traffic stacks up seasonally on routes like US-95. Commercial operators know records matter. They also know those records do not preserve themselves.

Is there still time if weeks have already passed?

Yes, possibly.

If you are within days or even a few weeks of the Scottsdale crash, some data may still exist. Even if the black box cycle has partly overwritten, there may be backup telematics, camera systems, dispatch metadata, maintenance records, driver phone records, or post-crash inspection documents.

If it has been months, the case is harder, not automatically dead.

Arizona's two-year limit may still leave you time to file. But proving fault becomes more of a street fight when the truck's best electronic evidence is gone. Then the case leans harder on vehicle damage patterns, witness statements, scene photos, police reporting, and whether the turn setup at that Scottsdale intersection supports your version or theirs.

So if your real question is "did I wait too long," the honest answer is this: you may still have time to bring the claim, but you may be losing the evidence every single day you wait.