Commercial Vehicle Accident

When trucking companies put profits over safety, the most vulnerable people suffer. One 18-wheeler driver, knowingly overworked by his employer despite the regulatory limits on his hours of service, was driving while fatigued and blew through a red light at an intersection, broadsiding an 83-year-old grandmother’s car at high speed. She suffered massive internal injuries and spent her last year fighting for her life on a ventilator in an acute care facility, unable to even speak, before finally succumbing to her injuries. $4,850,000