Sandusky, OH — Police in Sandusky are currently looking for a driver after a hit-and-run wreck left a man injured just outside of town on Tuesday of this week, July 6, 2015. Nick Hamlin, 29, was identified as the victim and the hit-and-run vehicle was reportedly a blue, commercial flatbed truck.
The accident happened at 4:15 p.m. that afternoon, near the intersection of Ohio Highway 4 and Bogart Road.
It appears that Hamlin was driving his car along Highway 4 that afternoon when he tried to turn into a private driveway and was rear-ended by a blue flatbed truck behind him that failed to slow down in time.
The accident pushed Hamlin’s car into a nearby cornfield, but the flatbed truck fled the scene and hasn’t been found since. Police with the Ohio State Highway Patrol are looking into his whereabouts.
Map of the Accident
View from the Road
Commentary:
Lots of people say that lawyers are only interested in going after truck drivers and semis every time there’s an accident, but that’s not really accurate. We’re interested in getting negligent drivers off the road, and it just so happens that that includes commercial drivers from time to time. Now, I know it sounds like I target commercial drivers a lot, but when things like this happen, it’s kind of difficult to refrain. If you ask me, it’s drivers like this trucker that give the others a bad name, not lawyers like me.
If this driver is found, then he and his company will have to be held accountable for what happened here. A common theme when a driver “goes rogue” like this is for the company to deny any liability. The argument basically says that since the driver was breaking the law while on the job, they’re not responsible for him, he’s the police’s problem.
Unfortunately, the law doesn’t really work that way. If a company gets to enjoy the benefits of an employee that earns them money, then they must also take on the consequences when that employee causes an accident that hurts or kills another person.
— Grossman Law Offices