Personal Injury Law

Truck Driver Dies After Tractor Trailer Accident In Georgia

A Delaware truck driver met his death after crashing his tractor-trailer into some trees alongside Interstate 95 about 11 miles inside the Georgia state line. According to authorities 54-year-old Robert Earl Webb may have fallen asleep, but he also had a history of heart disease and there was evidence he may have suffered a heart attack just before Thursday?s crash. Authorities said Webb was alive just after the accident but died at the scene. The tractor trailer truck left the road and traveled 559 feet as it went down a banked roadbed and hit several trees before stopping upright in a water-filled ditch.

Cases like this one raise a lot of questions about tractor-trailer safety. Fortunately no one else was injured or killed as a result of this truck accident. Had it been otherwise, a competent lawyer representing the innocent victim would have been investigating to determine whether the driver was suffering from drivers fatigue or whether he was in adequate physical condition to have been driving a big rig.

Under federal law a tractor trailer driver can only drive a certain number of hours in a certain time period and must maintain an accurate record in the form of a driver?s logbook. In short there are many regulations governing the operation of a truck used in interstate commerce. If you or a family member has been injured in a tractor trailer truck accident you should contact the trial lawyers of Finch McCranie, LLP immediately to protect your legal rights.

Full post as published by Georgia Injury Lawyer Blog on November 26, 2008 (boomark / email).