fatal truck accident<\/a>\u00a0that occurs on any U.S. road or highway could just as easily have happened in Illinois. That’s why we all have a stake in making sure that negligent truckers and the companies they work for are taken out of service before they cause a fatal crash.<\/p>\nSadly, a truck accident in Kentucky recently claimed the lives of six people and caused serious injuries to two others. The victims were a Wisconsin family on their way home from a trip to Florida. According to the state police, the trucker was following too closely behind their SUV prior to the crash. Potential criminal charges against the driver are pending.<\/p>\n
What is particularly infuriating about this crash is that the warning signs which could have prevented it were not heeded. The trucker is employed by a Michigan company with 35 vehicles and an undisclosed number of employees.<\/p>\n
Over the last two years alone, the company has accumulated 17 traffic violations for offenses such as following too closely, failing to wear a seatbelt and speeding. During that same period, the company’s vehicles were inspected 59 times; 12 of which resulted in vehicles being removed from service.<\/p>\n
We must wonder: at what point is a trucking company’s safety record deemed bad enough to warrant the permanent removal of its drivers from the road? It should not take a fatal accident to finally bring attention to a trucking company’s negligence.<\/p>\n
Source:\u00a0<\/strong>Detroit News, “Michigan firm in crash had 17 tickets since ’11,” Brett Barrouquere and Steve Karnowski, Mar. 5, 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trucking companies are the lifeblood of shipping in the contiguous United States. It ultimately doesn’t matter where a particular company is located, because its drivers may travel across the entire country. Thousands of truckers – both safe and dangerous – … <\/p>\n
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