DENTON, TX — A tractor-trailer tipped in a serious accident that was reported in Denton, Texas on Tuesday, March 25th, 2014, according to the news report from the Denton Record Chronicle.
Police with details of the crash investigation think that 68-year-old truck driver Mike Jensen was hurt when the tractor-trailer he was driving that was hauling baking flour is thought to have suffered a control loss and crashed while driving on Interstate 35 around 5:30 in the morning. After leaving the road, the truck tipped onto its side.
Scene of the Accident
Mike Jensen was taken by fire department officials to a nearby hospital where an update on his condition was not made available by hospital personnel.
Witnesses describe a tractor-trailer blocking the roadway before the accident.
Investigators from the Texas Highway Patrol are currently investigating the accident.
Commentary:
There are a few facts reported in the article, that if accurate raise some serious questions about the accident. The first thing I would need to know about the accident is what the truck the witnesses saw in the road was doing while it was blocking all the lanes of traffic? If the truck had suffered a loss of control and jackknifed before driving off after causing an accident, the trucking company may have to answer some tough questions. While trucks drive off after accidents all the time, the technology to find them have grown by leaps and bounds over the previous years, and tracking down a driver may not be as impossible as some people think, but the faster the truck is found, the more intact the evidence may be, so it is always important consider time as of the essence.
–Grossman Law Offices
