WICKENBURG, AZ — One person has died and another remained hospitalized after a tractor-trailer collision that happened in Wickenburg, Arizona on Thursday, May 29th, 2014, according to a news article from KPHO.
Police with details of the crash investigation have said that they have reason to believe that a truck driver was killed when the tractor-trailer he was driving was struck head-on by another tractor-trailer that had crossed over the median while driving on Highway 93 on Thursday morning.
Scene of the Accident
The driver of one of the trucks was killed, while the driver of the other was taken by EMS personnel to a nearby hospital.
Investigators from the Arizona Department of Transportation is handling the crash evaluation.
Commentary:
There are plenty of reasons tractor-trailers cross over the median and into oncoming traffic, but I’ve never come across one that was in any way excusable for the responsible party. Many times, the driver is either distracted by his phone, radio, GPS, or a midday snack in the glove compartment, luckily many of the commercial freight companies are starting to put driver-facing cameras in their rigs, and looking at this evidence could show if the driver was on a mobile device when the truck crossed over. If this turns out to be the case, the trucking company needs to be held responsible for he actions of their driver.
–Grossman Law Offices
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