Dallas, TX — There was a wreck on I-35E in South Dallas yesterday (Thursday, April 30, 2015) that involved two semi-trucks and left one of the drivers with injuries. This happened at about 5:00 a.m on Thursday morning, near I-20.
The news reports said that a white semi-truck was headed south on I-35E that morning and was near Wheatland Road when it crashed into the back of another semi-truck.
The driver in the first truck was injured and had to be taken to a hospital after rescue workers cut him out of his cab. The seond truck driver apparently wasn’t hurt.
From the news reports, the truck the first driver was in belonged to Birmingham, AL-based SNC Distribution Services Corporation.
Map of the Accident
View from the Road
Commentary:
The truck driver who was injured here appears to have been driving for SNC, a company based out of Alabama. I did a little research on their company here in Dallas because I thought perhaps something might’ve been wrong with this driver’s truck or brakes. What I found was that this company (assuming the information I got from the news is correct, of course) has had 418 vehicle inspections in the last 2 years, resulting in 238 violations and 42 trucks being taken off the road until they could pass an inspection.
Now, this is a mid-sized company, it appears, with only 426 trucks in its fleet. However, that’s still quite a few trucks to keep up with. I’m not saying that their poor maintenance record is indicative that something was wrong with this truck, but I don’t think that’s the kind of information you should ignore either.
This is why I choose to research these things (as with all the cases we handle) because if you rely solely on the police report, you won’t get the whole story. I think plenty of people would be content to blame this accident on the SNC truck driver, when it might have been out of his control.
— Grossman Law Offices
