Two men who were injured when their pickup was run off the road by an 18-wheeler, then insulted with a ticket that accused them of being at fault, received a $900,000 dollar settlement when the trucking company realized the men could prove they were not at fault.
On December 5, 2004, the two men were driving their pickup on interstate 295 in Florida, when they were rear-ended by a tractor-trailer owned and operated by L & S Logistics Services. The men were left in the woods in their inverted pickup. Then, when they were rescued by paramedics and being taken to the hospital for treatment of their severe injuries, a sate trooper came in and issued a ticket to the driver.
However, the men refused to accept this, and they hired a personal injury lawyer to prove they were not at fault for the crash. In examining the trailer they were towing the night of the crash, they found that the semi truck’s logo, its grill, and license plate had left an impression on the trailer’s doors.
Then they discovered that the driver’s license had been suspended 11 times and had been involved in 4 previous accidents while driving a tractor-trailer. Furthermore, the trucking company had destroyed evidence of the crash, and the judge was considering punitive damages when the trucking company decided to settle.
This kind of driver should not be allowed to be on the road, and if you have been injured in an automobile accident with a semi truck, it is entirely possible the driver that hit you has hurt other people, and will continue hurting people unless you can get them off the road and penalize the trucking company that put them out there. To stop this vicious cycle, contact the trucking accident injury lawyers at The Law Offices of Barry G. Doyle, P.C. today to get
