SLATON, TX — One person was hurt in a single-vehicle accident that happened outside Slaton, Texas on Thursday, April 23rd, 2015. News agencies out of the are said that the accident took place at around 7:30 Thursday night.
One woman was taken to the hospital after the Chevy pickup truck she was driving drove off the road for reasons currently under investigation while driving on Highway 84. Officials said that the pickup truck rolled several times before it came to a rest.
The woman was taken by helicopter to a nearby hospital where she was being treated for unspecified injuries.
The investigation is ongoing at this time.
Scene of the Accident
View of the Road
We could talk all day long about what caused this vehicle to drive off the road, but what I’d like to focus on right now is how the pickup truck fared and performed in the crash itself. Why? Because a great number of pickup trucks and SUVs have serious issues when it comes to rollover accidents. What do I mean? Pickup trucks and SUVs tend to have very high centers of gravity, which means they’re very prone to rollovers. This is something vehicle design engineers know about, so you’d think they’d prepare the truck with safety features for a rollover accident, right? Wrong. These vehicles have been rollover prone for years, yet manufacturers keep releasing vehicles whose roofs cave in at the drop of a hat in these accidents. If this accident could have had a better outcome with less-serious injuries in a better constructed vehicle, then the manufacturer needs to be put into a position to explain why they’ve not prepared their product for a very foreseeable accident.
— Grossman Law Offices
