Two Freightliners Collide in a Deadly Highway Truck Accident
Missouri truck accident lawyers are following a deadly freightliner accident that perfectly illustrates the dangers of sharing the roads with these enormous vehicles. On Thursday, July 21, 2011, two freightliners collided, leaving an Illinois trucker dead. Arthur Vann Jr., 57, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident. This took place outside of Lenapah Oklahoma.
Highway patrol officers explained that Vann was heading south on U.S. 169 when he struck another freightliner from behind. The other truck was driven by Robert H. Weller, 62, of Muskogee.
Weller's truck was stopped behind another vehicle due to roadwork on the highway. When Weller's vehicle was hit from behind, the force caused him to smash into the Nissan in front of him. The driver of the Nissan, Jared Daniel Ward, 40, of Cherryville, Kan. was not injured.
When the two freightliners collided, Van's truck burst into flame, causing Weller's truck to do so as well. Apparently, both the truck driven by Weller, as well as the Nissan that he hit, were shoved about 70 feet by the force of the impact, and Ward's Nissan went another hundred feet after Weller's truck stopped moving.
Vann was pinned in his truck for three hours before his body was removed by Lenapah Volunteer Fire Department personnel using the Jaws of Life (a gigantic tool used to extricate people from mangled trucks or building collapses). Vann's body was transported to the Medical Examiner's Office in Tulsa, according to the highway patrol's report.
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