Kentucky Injury Law Blog

In Johnson County, the father of one of three men who was killed in a Kentucky truck accident involving a Pepsi delivery truck is suing the cola maker and the truck driver for his wrongful death. Eddie Lee Patrick Sr. is seeking unspecified damages from Pepsi Bottling Group Inc. and trucker Rick Brown. The deadly Kentucky truck accident occurred last month when the pick up truck that 21-year-old William Anthony Patrick and two other men were riding were involved in a motor vehicle crash with the truck on US 460.

Also killed in the truck crash were 19-year-old Daniel Pennington and 21-year-old Dustin Lee Rodriguez, 21, who was thrown from the vehicle. Both Patrick and Pennington were burned so badly that they had to be identified using dental records.

Patrick’s Kentucky wrongful death lawsuit accuses Brown of driving the Pepsi truck in a reckless and negligent manner, which caused it to cross over the center line and hit the pickup truck. The truck driver, who also sustained serious injuries in the traffic crash, claims it was the pickup truck that drove into his lane. Also according to the complaint, William Anthony Patrick and Pennington very likely experienced severe suffering prior to their deaths and the younger Patrick might have survived the Kentucky auto accident if the pickup truck didn’t catch fire.

2007 NHTSA Large Truck Accident Facts
• 413,000 large trucks weighing over 10,000 pounds were involved in US traffic crashes.
• These large vehicles made up 8% of the motor vehicles involved in deadly accidents.
• They made up 4% of vehicles involved in motor vehicle crashes resulting in property damage or personal injury.
• 4,808 died in large truck accidents.
• 101,000 others were injured.
• Of the 1,188 deadly Kentucky motor vehicle accidents that occurred that year, 103 of them involved large trucks.

Father Files Lawsuit After Son's Deadly Crash, WKYT.com, March 12, 2009

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Related Web Resources:
Truck Accident Laws, Justia

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