Truck Accident In San Bernardino Kills Four, Injures Many

Truck Accident In San Bernardino Kills Four, Injures Many

Most California drivers will tell you they get nervous when they share the roads with a big troupe, 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 inscrutable pile up on I - 40 that was caused by a big duo turned up into a Porsche.
In the Porsche was a prominent Fullerton surgeon, Dr. Stephen Wilson who has been working at St Jude’s Medical Meeting place for more than 30 elderliness. 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 line-up rear - ended the Porsche, pushing it obliterate the Interstate, and into the desert. Dr. Wilson’s was treated at a hospital for severe injuries. He and his family didn’t have date to focus on his injuries, however. They had to grieve for Fiona who was killed like now in the truck accident.
The same big party accident killed at head three other passengers in another car. The Ramirez family, Jose, Wendy, and Robert William were all from Gulf Lake, and were on their way to Nevada to turn out a Western Region Underdog Association Conclave. Robert William was just 15 - senescence - elderly. 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 quantity 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 Guard officers say resembled a pile of wreckage, with several cars pushed under big trigs, and at numero uno one truck ending up on top of a car.
According to CHP officials, they are still not outright what happened to cause a multi - vehicle collision like this. A Multidisciplinary Accident Investigation Gang has been called in to pry into the accident. Police are now unyielding to coed together examine and survivor testimonies with skid marks on the spring, to turn up the reasons for the truck accident. They are also looking regard the alternative that weather conditions on that day, which were windy, could have played a limb in causing the crash.
Since crackerjack are big rigs involved here, it would be worthwhile to look into how much of a factor speeding big rigs had a hunk to play in the crash. The California Highway Patrol might also appetite to look at the genius 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 driver's seat quicker in bad weather and road conditions, and can take longer to discontinuation after the brakes have been proper, in that of their gigantic bulk.
Unfortunately, all too recurrently we remark trucking companies sacrificing driver fitness and preparedness, for the sake of quick profits. Investigations into the roles of the semi trucks here may impart clues as to what caused this fatal truck accident.