Clinton, IN — There was a major wreck last night (Thursday, August 6, 2015) that left the driver of a lumber truck with serious injuries. Police said that they responded to a call around 11:30 p.m. and found a semi-truck hauling lumber that had crashed off Route 63, leaving the driver hurt.
His name wasn’t released, but the police said that he was flown to a hospital.
The damage to the truck was severe and the trucker was evidently stuck in the cab for more than 2 hours that night before he could be cut free.
The accident happened just south of Clinton, they said, when the semi-truck swerved off the side of the highway for unknown reasons and hit the guardrail.
Map of Clinton, Indiana
Commentary:
There weren’t a lot of details released here, but I know some folks have a tendency to assume the worst when presented with little information. It’d be easy to simply assume that this trucker probably drifted off to sleep behind the wheel or did something else to cause this accident, but I don’t think that’s very fair to the driver — do you? One thing that might need to be investigated here is the actual semi-truck itself, because it seems to me that it’s possible a mechanical issue could’ve been the real culprit.
Semi-trucks are big machines with a lot of moving parts. If you don’t service and repair them regularly, things start to go wrong. I’m not trying to insinuate that this truck wasn’t up to par or anything like that, I just want my readers to remember that accidents are sometimes caused by things other than the driver. An example would be a broken steering column, or even failed air brakes.
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