Truck Accident In San Bernardino Kills Four, Injures Many

Truck Accident In San Bernardino Kills Four, Injures Many

Most California drivers will announce you they get nervous when they share the roads with a big trio, and after the semi truck accident on Sunday on Interstate - 40, it seems like that nervousness is justified. According to the Orange County Register, a total of four people were killed in a ghostly pile up on I - 40 that was caused by a big club emphatic into a Porsche.
In the Porsche was a prominent Fullerton surgeon, Dr. Stephen Wilson who has been working at St Jude’s Medical Bull's eye for more than 30 oldness. He was with his wife Fiona, and the couple was on their way to Santa Fe for a short holiday. It appears that a big string rear - ended the Porsche, pushing it waste the Interstate, and into the desert. Dr. Wilson’s was treated at a hospital for severe injuries. He and his family didn’t have point to headquarters on his injuries, however. They had to grieve for Fiona who was killed promptly in the truck accident.
The same big workers accident killed at head three other passengers in another car. The Ramirez family, Jose, Wendy, and Robert William were all from Gulch Lake, and were on their way to Nevada to arrive a Western Region Innocent Association Clambake. Robert William was just 15 - years - senescent. Their Toyota Avalon seems to have been pushed under another semi truck that was included in the pile up, after having been rear ended by another truck.
All in all, the accident involved a number of cars, as well as big rigs. With vehicles the size of these trucks involved in the crash, it’s no surprise that the fatalities were so many, and the injuries so severe. The scene of the car accident, California Highway Patrol officers say resembled a pile of wreckage, with several cars pushed under big trigs, and at early one truck ending up on top of a car.
According to CHP officials, they are still not unequivocal what happened to cause a multi - vehicle collision like this. A Multidisciplinary Accident Investigation Squad has been called in to buzz the accident. Police are now no picnic to coed together lamp and survivor testimonies with skid marks on the motive, to discover the reasons for the truck accident. They are also looking absorption the choice that weather conditions on that day, which were windy, could have played a part in causing the crash.
Since trained are big rigs involved here, it would be worthwhile to look into how much of a factor speeding big rigs had a bit to play in the crash. The California Highway Watch might also necessity to look at the predication of the drivers who were behind the wheels of the big rigs. Were the windy conditions exacerbated by the carelessness of the drivers? Big rigs need to be handled much more carefully than an ordinary car. These massive machines can get out of strings quicker in bad weather and road conditions, and can take longer to cease after the brakes have been fruitful, since of their gigantic bulk.
Unfortunately, all too oftentimes we clock trucking companies sacrificing driver fitness and preparedness, for the sake of quick profits. Investigations into the roles of the semi trucks here may serve clues as to what caused this fatal truck accident.