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Update on total accident

Discussion in 'Trucking Accidents' started by Bigtruck860, Jul 7, 2016.

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  1. Jul 7, 2016 #1
    Bigtruck860

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    http://www.wsbtv.com/news/prosecuto...-crash-that-killed-nursing-students/391207220

    A southeast Georgia prosecutor said Wednesday that he has dropped the criminal case against a trucking company charged in a fiery interstate crash last year that killed five nursing students.

    District Attorney Tom Durden, of Georgia's Atlantic Judicial Circuit, said he made the decision after Total Transportation of Mississippi agreed to spend $200,000 setting up a nonprofit group offering nursing students financial aid. A grand jury indicted the company in June on charges of vehicular homicide and other crimes related to the deadly crash on April 22, 2015.

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    Total Transportation was the employer of John Wayne Johnson, who drove the tractor-trailer that slammed into traffic backed up on Interstate 16 because of an unrelated crash. The big truck smashed two vehicles in which nursing students from Georgia Southern University were commuting to work at a Savannah hospital.

    Johnson, of Shreveport, Louisiana, still faces charges in the crash and is scheduled to appear in court next week. While Georgia law allows for corporations to be prosecuted in criminal cases, it rarely happens in the state.
     
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  3. Jul 7, 2016 #2
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    Any truth to the $80 million I heard?
     
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  4. Jul 7, 2016 #3
    justa_driver

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    Im sure there will be a lot of money to pay in this situation. My brother-in-law got 2 1/2 million from a trucking company for his injuries, course it messed him up for the rest of his life but at least it didnt kill him. I dont know how much his wife and kids got but they werent hurt as bad as he was. The truck T-boned him at the drivers door coming down a hill and couldnt get stopped for the redlight.
     
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  5. Jul 7, 2016 #4
    Big Don

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    As in to the judge, to get him to drop charges? Wouldn't be surprised, but perhaps 80 mil is a little high.
     
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  7. Jul 8, 2016 #5
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  8. Jul 8, 2016 #6
    mjd4277

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    Didn't think Total still had Peterbilts in its fleet. I thought a Freightliner was involved(Every Total truck I've seen to date is a Cascadia).
     
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    supersnackbar

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    Maybe it's same as with Arnold Transportation, they might be getting some of USeless Xpress' left over trucks
     
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  10. Jul 8, 2016 #8
    CaptainDaveG

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    80 million seems really high. While they were young it appears none suffered. Don't get me wrong this was an accident waiting to happen A police officer in our city was shot/killed while on duty by another officer after 3 years family got 5 million 3.6 in cash rest in retirement and health insurance. Can't imagine it being more than that for each of the girls. As time goes on and time does go on it will get more civil thinking. Look how cheap ownership got off.

    Be Safe Out There


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  11. Jul 29, 2016 #9
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  12. Jul 29, 2016 #10
    x1Heavy

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    *Grumbles....
     
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