Wabash hit with nuclear verdict

The automobile driver was drunk and the automobile driver and his passenger weren't wearing seatbelts, so that is Wabash fault.

 

The OP linked to the comments on a 3rd party website to the original article. Here is the original article.

Wabash National hit with $462M verdict in trailer equipment case

 

This is a quote from the article you posted:
"Wabash commented after the trial that the jury “was prevented from hearing critical evidence in the case, including that the driver’s blood alcohol level was over the legal limit at the time of the accident.”

Wabash also pointed out that “the fact that neither the driver nor his passenger was wearing a seatbelt was also kept from the jury, even though plaintiffs argued both would have survived a 55-mile-per-hour collision had the vehicle not broken through the trailer’s rear impact guard."

 

Drunk driving and no seatbelts; that's Wabash fault!

 

Hold on .... this is INSANE. This article is saying a drunk rearended a Truck , and neither the drunk or his passenger were wearing a seatbelt and it is the company WABASH that made the trailers fault?
Did I read right?
This is too much. How slimey can humans be?
RIP to the departed, but that drunk driver killed them not Wabash. And this is a United States of America court that refused to give the jury the truth about the whole deal?
Where the hell do we go from here?

 

I believe the ATM would be a good start.

 

I laughed at first but now I have to ask , how is money going to help this ? This is a moral problem. Or an ethics problem. It is a human problem that humans think throwing money at it will cure it. They are wrong.

 

Claiming Wabash is responsible for making "safe" trailers is ridiculous. First, the trailer had an ICC bar. Second, how does a manufacturer prevent others from running into them? It's not possible. Should wall builders have to make their walls "safe"? It's not possible. This country has turned into a joke. Clown world at it's finest.