JUNCTION CITY, OR — Danielle Robert was identified as the woman that was killed in an accident with a log truck in Junction City, Oregon on Thursday, January 29th, 2015. Several news reports said that the accident happened at about 7:00 Thursday morning.
25-year-old Danielle Roberts was killed when the Honda CRV she was driving was hit by a log truck in a chain-reaction accident on Highway 99. Officials said that a pickup truck crossed the center line of traffic where it struck the CRV, which was then in-turn struck by a log truck.
Roberts was killed in the crash. Also Killed was 25-year-old Brandon Foster.
The investigation is currently ongoing at this time.
Scene of the Accident
View from the Road
Commentary:
This accident could go one of two directions, either the brunt of the fault will be shouldered with the pickup truck that crossed over the highway, or the log truck is going to bear at some fault. Let’s focus on the log truck for now. If the log truck was following the CRV at a safe and appropriate distance, would it have smashed into the CRV when it was hit by the pickup truck? Fault in chain-reaction accidents can be difficult to determine because of conflicting, often competing theories, but if the log truck could have avoided making this accident substantially worse by following at a cautious distance, then the log truck company needs to answer for their role in the accident, however big or small it may be.
— Grossman Law Offices