DeFUNIAK SPRINGS, FL — Highway Patrol representatives have identified John Rogers as the man that was hurt in an accident with a dump truck in DeFuniak Springs, Florida on Thursday, March 19th, 2015. News agencies said that the accident happened sometime Thursday afternoon.
37-year-old John Rogers was hurt when when dump truck he was driving and a tractor-trailer collided while driving in the westbound lanes of Interstate 10. News reports said that the tractor-trailer struck the dump truck from the rear for reasons currently under investigation.
Rogers was taken by EMS to a local hospital where he was being treated for unspecified injuries.
The driver of the tractor-trailer was identified Terry Mills, who refused treatment at the scene.
Mills was charged with careless driving in connection with the accident.
Scene of the Accident
View of the Road
Commentary:
When a rear-end collision between massive commercial vehicles like dump trucks and tractor-trailers, the front driver is rarely injured, and sometimes never even feels the impact. The fact that the front truck driver not only felt the impact, but was injured by it tells me there must have been a great deal of force transferred from the rear truck to the front one. Plainly put, the rear driver must have been going pretty quick. This notion, coupled with the fact that the tractor-trailer driver was cited immediately following the accident tells me that the trucking company is probably running damage control strategy meetings right now to insulate their profits from harm, instead of taking responsibility for the damage they caused from the get-go. No matter how open-and-shut this looks, I always tell people to expect a fight. Never once have I seen a trucking company take responsibility for an accident without some legal strong arming.