Trucking Accidents causing more Wrongful Death
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Nationwide, 5200 Americans died last year and thousands more were injured in trucking accidents.
A detailed and informative, new investigative report by the Dallas Morning News shows trucking accidents are becoming more frequent and predictable. More innocent drivers are falling victim to an industry that is increasingly placing profits ahead of safety. Companies frequently hire felons, drunks and drug addicts to drive their enormous machines.
In one case study, an illegal immigrant who supplied a fake social security number to obtain his commercial driver's license wiped out an entire family when he crossed the center line while piloting a seventy thousand pound semi-tractor trailer rig. The driver admitted to company officials, under oath, that he lied about his truck driving experience, faked his social security number and was in the country illegally. Regardless he was allowed to drive. In addition, he continued to drive, with no restrictions following the accident that killed several people.
Despite compelling evidence against the driver and his employer neither the company nor the driver suffered any consequence. The driver received no criminal charge, his license was not suspended nor did he even receive a citation from the Department of Safety. His employer likewise received no safety citation or review.
In what should be a lesson for tort reformers, the only repercussion suffered by the company and its driver was a jury verdict holding them financially responsible for the accident.
For more detail the reader is encouraged to read the entire report.
More to come on this three part investigative report.