Personal Injury Law

Student Killed In Automobile Accident Trying To Avoid Debris In Roadway

As serious injury lawyers we are increasing getting calls from victims of motor vehicle accidents caused by debris on Georgia?s highways and even Interstate highways. It is bad enough to come up on road debris in an automobile but it can easily result in the wrongful death of someone on a motorcycle. In Atlanta, it is not uncommon to see old furniture, ladders and other objects which have fallen off of vehicles.

This week, a Nepali student was killed in a motor vehicle accident in Fairfax County, Virginia. Kritika Singh, 21, who was driving an Isuzu Rodeo, died in the accident while avoiding a mattress laying on the roadway on I-66 highway. According to Virginia State Police, a box truck, which was in front of her vehicle, turned sharply to avoid hitting the mattress. Singh?s vehicle traveling behind the truck, hit the mattress, ran off the road and hit the truck.

A Georgia resident was killed when he tried to avoid a pickup truck bed liner which had blown out of the bed of the truck onto the highway. In that case authorities were able to trace the bed liner to the owner of the truck and criminal charges were lodged against the owners.

It is often difficult to identify the person or entity who was responsible for littering highways with road debris; however, we have on occasion been successful in doing so. If you have been injured as a result of similar accidents, it is imperative to contact a lawyer at Finch McCranie, LLP immediately so that a good and timely investigation can be done.

Full post as published by Georgia Injury Lawyer Blog on November 24, 2008 (boomark / email).