A Buena Vista, Georgia, woman is dead after the motorcycle she was riding crashed into a tractor-trailer truck at Macon and Lynch Road in Midland, the Muscogee County Coroner’s Office said. Early reports said the semi-truck failed to yield.
The 22-year-old woman was pronounced dead of blunt force trauma at 1:55 p.m. Thursday, January 26, in the emergency room at Midtown Medical Center, said Muscogee County Deputy Coroner Charles Newton. Local police told a reporter for the Ledger-Enquirer that the Freightliner semi-truck turned left at an intersection, failing to yield to the Yamaha motorcycle, which was approaching the same intersection from the opposite direction. “According to the report, the truck driver failed to yield and turned left in front of the motorcycle causing the motorcycle to strike the rear of the trailer,’’ the newspaper reported.
Based on the accounts of people who knew the woman who died, she would have been returning home from classes at Columbus State University where she was enrolled. She had served four years in the U.S. Army before leaving the military to pursue her education. Among the many people following the tragic news are fellow students at Columbus State, friends and acquaintances from the military, family and other friends.
Failure to Yield
Failure to yield truck lawsuits can be filed by next of kin when the victim dies or is injured so severely they can’t comprehend what has happened. If the other driver did not yield the right-of-way, you may have a claim against the truck driver, trucking company or other party responsible for the safe operation of the 18-wheeler. Courts welcome truck accident wrongful death lawsuits when a human tragedy deserves fair settlement of liability issues. A good truck accident lawyer will independently investigate the crash and staunchly pursue the accountability issues that so many families rightly put first in litigation. Families want to send a message to freight haulers about the human consequences of unsafe driving in hopes of diminishing the chances of similar crashes in the future. The federal government regulates commercial trucking and our lawyers are experienced in discovering truths that are missed or obfuscated by others. The best early advice to parents who have lost a loved one to truck driving negligence is not to sign any documents presented by lawyers for the trucking company or by any insurance representative. Then, too, it’s important to swiftly hire a lawyer for a failure to yield lawsuit while there is ample time to run an independent, full investigation into the facts.
