Personal Injury Law

Truck Crash-Fatigue May Have Played a Role in Trucker's Impalement

By Jeffrey Lowe

An Illinois truck driver was fatally impaled last week by a fence post when his semi veered off the highway, the Associated Press reports.

The accident happened on March 4 south of Indianapolis on Interstate 65. Elvin Stanley, a 47-year-old truck driver from Chicago, left the road around 1 am. The truck went down an embankment, hit some trees then drove through a fence. One of the fence posts crashed through the truck?s windshield and impaled Stanley.

State police believe driver fatigue may have been a factor.

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Full post as published by Trucking Accident Attorney Blog on March 06, 2008 (boomark / email).