Trucking Firm To Pay At Least $14 Million In Crash That Killed 5 Nursing Students
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...legal depositions revealed that Total Transportation of Mississippi hired the truck’s driver, John Wayne Johnson of Shreveport, Louisiana, even after he had disclosed being fired by a previous employer for falling asleep at the wheel.
You can see why companies are so strict about hiring drivers with any sort of background, history, or medical issues. If for whatever reason it may be that that driver gets in an accident the lawyers are going to go after that company for MILLIONS like this case.
I could never live with myself if I caused an accident like this. So horrible.
I was so upset when this event happened that I almost quit trucking all together. No amount of money can erase the pain suffered from the families and the driver.
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Trucking firm to pay at least $14 million in crash that killed 5 nursing students
"The employer of a tractor-trailer driver blamed for a fiery interstate crash that killed five Georgia nursing students has agreed to settle wrongful death lawsuits for large sums, with at least one victim’s family receiving $14 million, attorneys in the case said Wednesday."
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Commercial trade, business, movement of goods or money, or transportation from one state to another, regulated by the Federal Department Of Transportation (DOT).