From the news reports, it appears that the 18-wheeler was headed along Loop 410 when the driver lost control (or the truck did) and it swerved off the highway and down a steep embankment.
The truck then overturned and landed upright, spilling the trailer full of sand it was hauling. It was just the driver in the truck, a man in his 50’s, and he was hospitalized with injuries.
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Commentary:
On a whim, I happened to catch the name of the company that owned this truck and looked up their records with the DOT. As it turns out, Bear ReadyMix Concrete is in the 86th percentile for vehicle maintenance violations — and this company only has 15 vehicles registered with the DOT! That tells me that this company has a hard time keeping its vehicles maintained and functioning properly, or they just don’t care enough to do it.
In either case, now that we know this information, you can see how finding out why this truck flipped over on the highway that morning might not be so straightforward, right? It would be easy to simply blame the driver and say he lost control, but what if something was broken on the truck? What if some sort of mechanical failure outside the driver’s control caused this accident?
Perhaps I’m completely wrong here and this was just a one-time, freak accident that will never repeat itself. Somehow, though, I doubt it and it seems like this ought to be investigated very closely — along with the company that owns the truck.
— Grossman Law Offices
