WACO, TX — A motorcycle accident left its driver dead in Waco, Texas on Sunday, April 27th, 2014, according to a news report from the Waco Tribune.
Representatives from the Waco Police have said that they believe 40-year-old Chad Cotton was killed when the motorcycle he was driving was struck by a Mercury Marquis at around 1:50 Sunday morning.
Scene of the Accident
Chad Cotton was ejected from the bike and was taken by EMS to Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center where he died a few hours after he arrived.
The investigation remains ongoing by officials from local agencies.
Commentary:
Due to the nature of personal injury accidents and the stigma that surrounds them, people tend to be very, very unforgiving when it comes to victims in accidents like this. The think people fail to realize is the difficulty in determining a vehicle’s speed when it is driving in your direction. Police officers even use sophisticated equipment to see speed, so the driver in this situation may have thought that there was enough room to execute the turn, but in reality if the driver was speeding, they may not have had enough time or space, with no way of knowing. Granted, I’m not saying this is what happened because I was not there, but faulting a victim before all the information is on the table is irresponsible at best.
–Grossman Law Offices
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