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Chain Reaction Involving Tractor-Trailer Kills One

By Eddie Farah

A driver from Kingsland, Georgia died Friday afternoon after a chain-reaction on the road involving a tractor-trailer.

The tractor-trailer was hauling a load of beer, heading south near Pecan Park Road, when he rear-ended a pickup truck that was pulling a cement mixer. All of this occurred on North Main Street in north Jacksonville, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

The 45-year old driver, Tony Baker, was in a truck heading northbound when his truck hit the jackknifed tractor-trailer. Baker was pronounced dead at the scene while the other drivers were okay.

It was just this summer when the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) announced that for the second year in a row, the number of large trucks (greater than 10,000 lbs.) involved in crashes in Florida had decreased and were at their lowest recorded levels since 2003.

Aggressive law enforcement programs have helped.

In 2007, partnered with the Florida Highway Patrol in enforcing programs to target aggressive driving, speeding, and following too closely by not only the drivers of big trucks, but the drivers of passenger cars as well that drive carelessly around these trucks.

But it doesn't sound as though Tony Baker was anything but in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Originally posted at InjuryBoard by Eddie Farah

Full post as published by Jacksonville Personal Injury Lawyer on October 11, 2008 (boomark / email).