Raisin, TX — Authorities have released the name of Brandon Talkington, who was killed in an accident on Thursday, April 17, around nine in the evening.
Talkington’s Jeep was hit from behind as he was driving along U.S. Highway 59, when he was hit by Charles Lankford. The collision caused Talkington to lose control of his Jeep, which rolled off the highway.
The collision didn’t kill Talkington, and emergency workers reporting on the scene say that he was able to get out of his vehicle after the incident. However, he died a short time later.
Scene of the Accident
Commentary
There are a couple of different things to look at in this case. On is that it happened in the evening. One might think that if the victim were trying to merge onto the highway, then the sensible thing for any vehicles behind him to do would be to slow down and let him get on. But because this happened at, it’s possible that the Jaguar that hit the victim wasn’t able to properly judge the car’s speed, and by the time he saw the two vehicles were going to collide, he didn’t have the time to do anything about it. It’s also possible that the Jaguar had every chance to see what was going on and correct for it, but for whatever reason just didn’t. The reports I’ve read on this one don’t offer many details on the driver of the Jaguar, so I’m hesitant to speculate. But it’s worth noting that there perfectly reasonable explanations for both sides of the argument here.
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