Suspended Driverse License News
The company who employed a truck driver who had a suspended license and who lied on his trip log, has been ordered to pay 23.75 million to victims
(Allen, Flatt, Ballidis & Leslie Inc.) March 23, 2009 - An Illinois jury punished a company and their driver for a 2004 accident and pile up where the driver was operating the truck on a suspended license and when he falsified a trip log. A trip log is to be kept by drivers as proof they are not working too many consecutive hours and tired a factor that heavily increases the likelihood of an accident. Trip logs and other safety measures are in place to protect the public from such accidents.
The jury ordered the trucking company C.H. Robinson Worldwide and other defendants to pay $23.75 million to the victims of a 2004 tractor trailer crash that killed two people and injured several others. Jurors found that the driver of a truck was negligent in the crash.
The only way that trucking companies will enforce the rules on drivers to maintain a valid license and properly maintain and follow trip rule guidelines, is to punish them when they don't. Sometime, like a child, a stiff penalty will make them remember to follow the rules, especially when lives are at stake.
Florida suspended license driver kills Broward County I-95 passenger
(JusticeNewsFlash.com) 3/30/2009 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL - FHP says Broward County I-95 head on car crash leaves 1 dead and 3 injured.
Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) investigators report preliminary findings, on Monday, related to a fatal car crash, which occurred on I-95 at Broward Blvd., in Broward County Florida early Friday morning. As reported by the Sun Sentinel, FHP highway automobile accident investigators have confirmed the driver, of a 2003 BMW, who collided head on with a white 2005 Ford van carrying three passengers, at about 4:15 a.m., on Friday, was driving northbound in the southbound lanes of I-95.
The BMW’s driver, 31 year-old Davydson Soares of Pompano Beach, was driving on a suspended license, according to Florida Department of Motor Vehicles records, when he crashed into the van killing 23 year-old passenger, Aracely Mendoza from Miami. The driver of the Ford van and the two other passengers, all from Miami, were transported by emergency medical personnel to Broward General Medical Center for treatment of their injuries.
Soares was injured in the car wreck and transported to Broward General Medical Center, treated for his minor injuries, and released. FHP states he was not wearing a seatbelt in the fatal motor vehicle collision and discovered he was recently charged with disorderly conduct on March 22, 2009, by Miami Beach police officers. FHP highway accident detectives are awaiting Soares toxicology results to determine if alcohol or drugs was a factor in his reckless driving.
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