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Unlicensed Truck Driver Sued For $40 Million After Killing Three In Texas Crash
Posted on Feb 18, 2011
Could the truck driver that struck you or a loved one have been unlicensed to drive a commercial vehicle? That was the case in a tragic Texas truck accident in Tyler in which three people were killed last year.
According to the Southeast Texas Record, the deadly TX big rig accident took place on I-20 outside of Tyler, Texas, on March 27, 2010. For reasons still unknown, a tractor-trailer traveling behind a car carrying three people rear-ended the smaller vehicle, slammed it into a concrete barrier, and then ran over the car. Three people were killed in the accident: Chashawna Blevins and Tre'Vion McKinney were pronounced dead at the scene of the accident while Burnett McKinney III was rushed to a local hospital were he succumbed to his injuries.
The truck driver, Robbie Thompson, was unlicensed to drive a commercial truck in the United States. During the investigation into the fatal tractor-trailer accident, Texas police found that the trucker failed to notice that the car in front of him was stopped in the road, failed to stop for traffic, failed to control his speed, and failed to pay attention to the road.
The three families of the car accident victims say that the trucking company that hired Thompson, Dynamic Environmental Services, is responsible for the fatal truck accident because they knowingly put an untrained, unlicensed, and unqualified driver behind the wheel.
The wrongful death lawsuit seeks $10 million for each family for damages that include medical care, pain and suffering, loss of future earnings, loss of parental consortium, loss of household services, disfigurement, mental anguish, loss of consortium, interest and court costs.
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