Police statistics show an increase in the number of deaths due to texting while driving.
It was dark, it was raining and the road was slippery. The moon cast a brilliant glow on the water that had collected in the depressions left in the road, thanks to heavy traffic constantly traveling in the same lanes. The large truck was on its way to its destination to deliver steel rails. The trucker was ripping it off because he was running late and time means money to a trucker.
Reaching for his cell phone, the trucker decided to text his employer to let him know he was on time and on the go, expecting to be at his final destination within two hours. Those Blackberries are great when it comes to texting; they have a removable keyboard and should be easy to handle and handle at the same time. Yeah, he thought as he pulled out the phone, this will only take a couple of minutes tops.
Right in the middle of writing the sentence, “I’m on time and I expect to be by…”, the large truck hit a larger puddle of water and began hydroplaning, causing the rear of the truck to tip over. The entire unit hurtled into the opposite lane of traffic.
Josh Dvernik was 20 years old. He had his whole life ahead of him; he was on his way to college in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He never saw the approaching truck cross the center line. Josh died at the scene. The carnage was something a 30-year veteran state trooper said he had never seen before and hoped never to see again.
Including Josh, there were three deaths that night, all because the truck driver texted while driving. In the split second that he took his eyes off the road to start texting, he lost control of the truck. His negligence resulted in profound tragedy.
Josh Dvernik’s family filed a wrongful death lawsuit. The test will be a long one, as going after commercial truckers is a difficult test. There are many rules, regulations, landlords, insurance companies, and exceptions; and the great lawyers fight hard to restrict justice.
During the course of the preparation for the trial and, indeed, during the trial itself, the daily expenses of life for the Dvernik family will continue. Josh’s mother quit her well-paying job as an OR nurse due to a mental breakdown over the sudden death of her son. The family must make do with reduced income in the wake of a tragedy that has resulted in increased expenses. They must find a way to pay ordinary and extraordinary bills and expenses.
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