Deadly I-44 Truck Accident Leaves One Dead

Truck accidents can be more deadly than automobile accidents because their size makes them all but unstoppable. This accident in Springfield, Missouri, left one dead and the tractor-trailer burning at the base of an embankment on I-44.

According to a news report in the Springfield News-Leader, the collision occurred when

…one tractor-trailer was sitting on the shoulder of I-44 and the second hit it and ran through a guardrail….The tractor-trailer that went off the road was a westbound 1999 Freightliner from a trucking company in Indiana, police said. It drifted onto the shoulder and tried to correct but sideswiped a 2009 Kenworth tractor-trailer from a trucking company in California.

After traveling through the guardrail, the Freightliner then went down the embankment where it was still fully engulfed when it came to rest on its top, the release said.

The driver was the sole occupant and was pronounced dead at the scene. Police are still investigating why the Freightliner drifted onto the shoulder.

When people suffer catastrophic injuries and wrongful death in trucking accidents, the lawyers at The Law Offices of Frank L. Branson work hard to identify the responsible parties and hold them accountable. The Law Offices of Frank Branson is not involved in this case.

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