Pemberton Township, NJ — According to a report from the Burlington County Times, a 16-year old boy was critically injured after being hit by a Ford F-450 stake-body truck in Pemberton Township, New Jersey, on Friday September 12, 2014. The accident happened on Margaret Street, around 4:30 in the afternoon.
The report says that the young boy, who hasn’t been identified, was riding his Yamaha dirt bike when the accident occurred. The truck hit the boy as it was backing into a private driveway.
The boy was taken to a local hospital, and remains in critical condition.
Not many details of the accident haven been released. At this point, local police are investigating in an attempt to discover what caused the collision.
Scene of the Accident
Commentary
There are two things that strike me here. One is that the driver of the truck was backing into a driveway, and the other is that he was driving a Ford F-450. I don’t know if you’ve seen an F-450, but they’re big trucks. So the driver is backing a big truck into a driveway, which immediately puts the onus on him if he backs into something.
There hasn’t been a lot of reporting done on this accident, so our picture of things is a little incomplete. But I’ve been involved in several cases like this in the past that have played out just like this one seems to be. If it turns out that the driver wasn’t paying attention and hit the young man, then he’s going to be liable for the accident.
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