DEKALB COUNTY, GA — One person died after a single-vehicle tractor-trailer accident that happened in Dekalb County, Georgia on Saturday, January 17th, 2015. The news said that the accident happened at about midnight Saturday morning.
One person died when the tractor-trailer they were driving crashed and rolled while driving in the southbound lanes of Interstate 285. Authorities said that the truck drove into a wall before rolling.
The driver of the truck was thrown from the vehicle and pronounced dead on the scene.
No other injuries were reported.
The investigation is currently ongoing.
Scene of the Accident
View from the Road
Commentary:
I think it is high time that tractor-trailer manufacturers start noticing these types of accidents, because the time for fixing the problems with the way these trucks are designed and constructed has long since passed. These tractor-trailers seem to handle front and rear-end collisions fairly well, but whenever they roll, their drivers and passengers are often worse than the people in other vehicles. Should a small compact sedan really fare better in a rollover accident than a massive tractor-trailer? If the driver of this truck would have survived in any other better-designed truck, then the manufacturer of the tractor-trailer in the accident could bear a portion of the liability, depending on how the facts fall into place.
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