Parked Trailer Leads to Wrongful Death
A driver of a car that struck a parked trailer in a lane of traffic died recently and the passenger in the vehicle was injured. According to reports, a trailer was parked on a dead-end roadway but in a lane of traffic when the car struck it.
A 25-year-old man from Bacliff, Texas was killed in the accident according to reports from the Galveston County Medical Examiner's Office. Not much is known about the injury sustained by the passenger or whether or not the trailer was properly parked with required cones.
Reports indicate that part of the trailer intruded into the windshield of the car, which was the mechanism of the fatal blow to the driver, and also what injured the passenger.
Commercial truck drivers have very specific rules under the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations regarding parking of tractor-trailers. Many times a serious or fatal accident can be attributed to an illegally parked semi truck.
When a commercial vehicle is illegally parked it does not provide sufficient warning to motorists coming upon it, which leads to many truck accidents.
