Personal Injury Law

Head-On With Tractor-Trailer Kills Georgia Motorist

By Eddie Farah

A car traveling south in the northbound lane on U.S. 1 in Georgia collided head-on with a tractor-trailer Wednesday night. The passenger died. He's been identified as 33-year-old Charles Allen Music of Lyons, Georgia who was thrown from the Ford Mustang at the Ware-Charlton County line.

The driver of the Mustang, identified as Joshua Grantham, was in Shands Hospital reported to be in good condition this morning. The trucker was taken to Satilla Regional Medical Center in Waycross and was reported to be injured, as was his passenger. No more information is available on their condition because of privacy laws.

For some unknown reason, the Mustang was heading south in the northbound lanes of the highway. The collision with the northbound Freightliner truck is under investigation but a contributor to the article says that they likely got on the wrong side of the road somewhere through Waycross, Georgia, as it has happened before.

No word on whether seat belts were used, but it is somewhat unusual for a driver to survive a passenger unless one was buckled in and one was not.

Today, vehicles are designed with safety features and side and front airbags, but the seat belt remains the easiest and most cost-effective life saver there is. The moment it takes to buckle up and to secure your children is worth it. Might even be worth a life.

Full post as published by Jacksonville Personal Injury Lawyer on July 31, 2008 (boomark / email).