A jury deliberated less than an hour before awarding $3.5 million to the family of a man who died when his van was crushed between two logging trucks in a January 2008 semi truck accident.
The Gorum truck was being operated at a high rate of speed and with defective brakes in violation of Alabama law.As wrongful death attorneys, we know that speeding is one of the greatest contributors to auto accidents with nearly a third of all car accidents attributed to speeding. Defective auto parts are also a top cause of car accidents. Defective brakes, coupled with speeding, can cause a serious auto accident at high and unsafe speeds.
This semi-truck accident occurred in Elmore County where Alabama 14 intersects with Alabama 170 going toward Eclectic. A car had stopped to make a left-hand turn, and first a logging semi-truck and then Sanderson’s van had stopped behind it.
The Gorum logging truck, driven by Fruge, failed to stop, and rammed Sanderson’s van, pushing it into the logs on the truck in front of him.
On Wednesday, a Chilton County jury ordered Ken Gorum Trucking and Gary Fruge, the driver of the logging truck, to pay the $3.5 million to the family of James Sanderson who suffered a wrongful death. Fruge failed to break in time before crushing Sanderson’s van in a gruesome semi truck crash.
As semi truck accident lawyers, we know that these types of crashes often result in wrongful death. The loss of a life is devastating and life-changing for surviving family members. If your family is in this situation, we can help you recover the maximum wrongful death settlement with the least amount of stress, as well as assist you in finding the best car insurance policy for your future vehicles so that you are covered if another accident happens.
Call us now at 1-800-655-6585 or click here for a FREE CONSULTATION with an experienced wrongful death attorney to find out how we may help you. We look forward to providing good advice to help you make smart decisions about your case in either English or Spanish.
About Michael PinesMichael Pines is a former insurance company attorney who specializes in car accident injury. While he was an insurance attorney, he learned from behind the scenes on how insurance companies work and how they decided to pay injured people. Now that he works against insurance companies, Michael's inside knowledge has resulted in significant benefits to his clients injured in car accidents.
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