STARKE, FL — Three people were taken to the hospital after a tractor-trailer accident that was reported in Starke, Florida on Monday, September 29th, 2014. The report from USA Today says the accident happened around 2:30 Monday afternoon.
Police say seven students on a Starke Elementary School bus and were hurt when a tractor-trailer hit the school bus. Authorities in charge of the investigation say the accident happened when the tractor-trailer hit the back of the school bus while driving on Highway 301 near the intersection with State Road 200. Several witnesses called police to report that the tractor-trailer was driving erratically just before the accident.
A female passenger in the truck was naked at the time of the accident, and first responders gave her a towel to cover herself when they arrived.
Seven students on the bus were hospitalized with unspecified injuries.
The Florida State Police are still investigating the accident.
Scene of the Accident
Commentary:
I really shouldnt need to spell out the implications of an erratically-driven tractor-trailer with a naked female passenger, do I? I’m going to take a guess and say that the trucking company is probably going to say that the driver was doing something so far out of the scope of his employment that they are not responsible. Trucking companies love nothing more than an accident where the whole thing can be dumped into the lap of THEIR driver, making said driver out to be some kind of boogeyman in an effort to shed all liability.
–Grossman Law Offices
