18 Wheeler Rear Ended Family Of Seven At High
Rate of Speed on Interstate 20
DALLAS, Aug. 19,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- A Dallas, Texas woman and her family have filed
a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against a North Carolina trucking company and the driver
of its truck which rear ended them on Interstate 20 west of
Dallas, alleging that the driver
was speeding and failing to keep a careful lookout. The
plaintiffs, Cristian Ramirez, Mario
Garcia and their family including 4 minor children, filed
the lawsuit today in the United
States District Court for the Northern District of
Texas, Dallas Division, against MK
& SK Logistics Inc. and its driver, Swarn Singh Kharia. The
lawsuit alleges that on November 5, 2023, the 60-year-old defendant truck
driver Kharia was driving an 18 wheeler tractor trailer owned by
defendant MK & SK Logistics Inc., which was fully loaded at the
time on Interstate 20 headed east to Dallas when he failed to control his speed,
resulting in a violent and catastrophic collision into the rear of
plaintiffs' suburban and the trailer they were pulling. The family
was relocating from California to
Dallas, Texas at the time of the
collision. As a result of the high speed collision, the trailer was
dislocated from the suburban and the suburban overturned on the
highway. The entire family was seriously injured but was
fortunately able to escape the overturned suburban before a third
vehicle traveling on I-20 crashed into the overturned vehicle. The
two collisions resulted in a debris field which led to the closure
of the east bound lanes of Interstate 20. The
lawsuit alleges that defendants violated trucking
regulations, failed to keep a proper lookout, and were exceeding
the speed limit.
Derek Potts, of Potts Law
Firm, LLP in Houston who
represents the Plaintiffs said, "This is yet another unfortunate
example of dangerous inattention by truck drivers when they fail to
control their speed and keep a proper lookout. Such situations
require extreme caution as opposed to recklessness. Our clients are
lucky to be alive."
The lawsuit is styled Mario
Garcia, et a. v. Swarn Singh Kharia, and MK & SK
Logistics Inc.; Cause No.: 3:24-cv-2042.
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