There is always a risk when driving. Resident from around Columbia, Missouri, can definitely testify to that. In the last two weeks, four vehicle accidents have occurred.
Four residents of Boonville, a town near Columbia, were injured Friday in an accident near the Cooper County Fairgrounds.
An 18-year-old girl was making a left hand turn when she crossed the center line and was hit by a 45-year-old driving a truck.
It was a moment of inattention that cost three people their lives. Reaching for his cell phone on the dash board, a trucker lost track of where he was and rolled into a whole line of traffic, knocking cars out of the way like bowling balls.
The 51-year old trucker who was involved in an awful accident that killed three and left many others injured two years ago, was released from jail after serving 371 days of his sentence for involuntary manslaughter. The man had served a one year sentence; a sentence in part determined in consultation with the victims of the crash, explained a New York Trucking Accident Lawyer.
The facts of the case are that the trucker was momentarily distracted by reaching for his cell phone and while doing that, took his eyes off the road. The truck kept going and plowed into a line of vehicles sitting on the highway. The resulting chain reaction crash killed three and injured at least 14 others. The charges in this case were not filed until nine months after the crash, as it took that long to sort out the relevant details.
This case is an example of what “could” have happened if there had been any other vehicles around the semi that rolled on its side. That kind of a visual will bring a shock of fear to most people. Who wants to be involved in a wreck with a semi?
In this semi wreck, the big rig was heading north when it started to fishtail on slippery roads. As a result of the rear end doing its thing, the truck then rolled over on its side, blocking six lanes of traffic. Can you just imagine what would have happened if all six lanes had traffic in them when the truck went down, asked the New York Truck Accident Lawyer?
The driver walked from this crash without injuries and considered himself to be pretty lucky at that. But for the fact that there was no one else around at the time of the morning when the accident happened, both he and other drivers may have suffered severe injuries. As it was, it took emergency response crews at least six hours to repair a damaged guardrail before four lanes were reopened for use.
It’s hard to imagine how someone could backup over a person, but that is what happened in this case. The deceased was killed in a parking lot, reported the NYC Truck Accident Lawyer by a trucker who was trying to move his unit to another spot.
As he was backing up, he didn’t see the man walking behind him. Unfortunately, the trucker backed over him. EMS crews responded, but the man was dead by the time they arrived. According to the police report, the driver of the truck wasn’t speeding or being reckless, he was trying to maneuver his big rig to another location in the parking lot. If the man killed was in a blind spot, right behind the truck, it may explain why the trucker indicated he did not see him.
One question the police will want answered is why the deceased was walking behind a moving semi when it was backing up. Most units have an ear piercing backup warning signal that goes off to let people around them know they are moving. It’s possible that the warning signal was not working and may have been defective. Only a full investigation will reveal all the details. This is what is done in all of these cases. Nassau and Suffolk Counties are not exceptions.
This particular accident was logged in as one of the worst anyone had even seen. What happened? A semi careened into a line of stopped traffic, killing five and injuring at least 10 others, some very severely reported the New York Truck Accident Lawyer
The most shocking aspect of this story is that the driver of the big rig did not even pause or give any signs of slowing down, even with a line of stopped cars in front of him. The cars were stopped at the site of a previous accident to allow EMS crews to do their work.
When the semi hit the end of the line, the whole line bunched up like an accordion, leaving death and destruction in its wake. The police report indicated that there were no skid marks involved in this wreck and that the truck was doing 70 mph when it hit the last car in the line. According to witnesses, the trucker was driving erratically just prior to being involved in the accident.
It was a moment of inattention that cost three people their lives. Reaching for his cell phone on the dash board, a trucker lost track of where he was and rolled into a whole line of traffic, knocking cars out of the way like bowling balls.
The 51-year old trucker who was involved in an awful accident that killed three and left many others injured two years ago, was released from jail after serving 371 days of his sentence for involuntary manslaughter. The man had served a one year sentence; a sentence in part determined in consultation with the victims of the crash, explained a New York Trucking Accident Lawyer
The facts of the case are that the trucker was momentarily distracted by reaching for his cell phone and while doing that, took his eyes off the road. The truck kept going and plowed into a line of vehicles sitting on the highway. The resulting chain reaction crash killed three and injured at least 14 others. The charges in this case were not filed until nine months after the crash, as it took that long to sort out the relevant details. In New York and Long Island authorities warn against this kind of behavior and the consequences.
No one leaves home to go to work expecting they will never return home. However, that is just what happened in this fatal fiery wreck, the result of a chain of unfortunate errors.
A 46-year old man was hit and killed while he was trying to move his car out of traffic. It had given up the ghost on him and he knew it should not be left in the middle of the bridge in case someone else hit his disabled vehicle.
As the man was attempting to move his car, a trucker in another lane, spotting what was going on, attempted to slip by the car by swerving around it. The trucker missed the car alright, but struck the man moving it. As a result of the impact, the big rig hit the median and burst into a red hot inferno, reported a New York Truck Accident Lawyer.
In some cases, the truth is stranger than fiction and this case has all of those elements; a bit of hard, cold truth and an old world element of what may be considered to be fiction, but, is also truth.
A 60-year old Amish woman who survived a very ugly tractor trailer crash that killed three and left more than a dozen others badly injured, has declined to sue the trucker who caused the accident, indicated a New York Truck Accident Lawyer. That is the Amish way; not to take money from others when a situation is considered to be God’s will. And, according to God’s will, she would not participate in suing the man who killed her father.
The truck that hit them was fully loaded with scrap metal – 13 tons of it. The trucker had been driving for more than 86 hours over an 8-day period and was in violation of the hours of service regulations. He had been cited 41 times for fraudulently altering logbooks.
The Truck company and trucker involved in this fatal fiasco had been sued no less than five times before this latest incident, said the New York Truck Accident Lawyer. There were two other people in the same car the Marine recruits were in when this accident happened and it also involved five other vehicles and a motorcycle. In other words, it was a total mess.
The family of one of the deceased is seeking $20 million in punitive damages from the Truck company and a further $1 million in punitive damages from the trucker. They are also asking for $25,000 in compensatory damages and $17,000 in burial expenses. The lawsuit further states the Truck company had no business allowing the trucker to drive, given his string of serious traffic offenses and that they should have been aware of them, explained the Truck Accident Lawyer. In Suffolk and Westchester Counties when alcohol is involved in the case, the authorities have little pity for the driver.
The driver was convicted of drunk driving three times, as well as letting his daughter and other underage kids use drugs and/or alcohol in a motel room. He evidently lied on his application to get hired, pointed out the New York Truck Accident Lawyer.
Although the police tracked down the suspected big rig driver in this fatal hit and run accident, he was choosing not to talk to them. Since he was not saying anything one way or another, the police had not moved to charge him, indicated the New York City Truck Accident Lawyer.
The police will make it a point to send a criminal complaint to the DA’s office, asking he be charged with two counts of vehicular manslaughter. The facts of the case are heart-wrenching. A 56-year old woman and her 28-year old daughter were brutally killed in an intersection while crossing the street when a hit and run rig driver sped through the intersection and kept right on going. The daughter left behind a son, a newborn and a grieving husband.
According to eyewitnesses, both the women were in the crosswalk and had the right of way. The police were planning further investigations to determine if the driver was under the influence, texting, had defective brakes, was not paying attention to what he was doing or whether he was drifting off to sleep behind the wheel, said the New York Truck Accident Lawyer
