MONTGOMERY, TX — County Officials working with Department of Public Safety representatives have named Sierra Moore, Lorenzo Morgan and Aaron Broderick as the three people that were injured in an accident with a concrete mixer truck in Montgomery, Texas on Tuesday, June 2nd, 2015. Officials reports from the Montgomery Police department said that the accident happened at about 11:00 Tuesday morning.
19-year-old Sierra Moore, 20-year-old Lorenzo Morgan and 22-year-old Aaron Broderick were hurt when the Ford Fusion they were in was hit by a Cemtex concrete truck while driving through the intersection of Stewards Creek Road and Highway 105. Authorities have reason to believe the concrete truck ran the red light when it struck the Fusion. The Fusion was pinned to the truck as it drove off the road and into a nearby ditch.
Morgan, Moore, and Broderick were taken to area hospitals following the accident to be treated for serious injuries. The driver of the concrete truck was identified as 50-year-old Lazaro Alvarez. It is not clear if Alvarez was hurt in the accident.
State Police are still looking into the cause of the accident, and hope to release more information in the coming days.
Scene of the Accident
View of the Road
Commentary:
From all the preliminary police reports I’ve studied about this accident, it seems fairly obvious that the concrete truck, and by extension, the company behind the truck is going to be facing a lot of questions concerning this crash. However, victims and their loved ones need to understand that these trucking companies are not in the business of “taking accountability”, they’re in the business of padding their profit numbers, and any accident like this represents a threat to that goal, so people need to expect stiff resistance. I’ve seen trucking companies fight tooth and nail over a driver that left the scene of a fatal crash while high on drugs, so seeing a concrete truck company fight tooth and nail over a red light running driver wouldn’t exactly shock me. Even in the most blatantly obvious, red-handed cases, I’ve never seen a trucking company just throw up it’s hands and fix everything they’ve damaged, so preparing for a fight is the best way for victims to see a favorable outcome.
With this accident, any good lawyer worth their weight would be able to tell that the accident was caused by the truck violating a law or statute (in this case, if the news is correct, running a stop), which is what the legal field likes to call negligence per se, but the trucking company may try to deflect and say it was the victims that broke the law, but a good attorney can turn this underhanded tactic right around on them. Just beware, these cases are never as simple as they seem at first-blush.
— Grossman Law Offices
