David Marsh settled a case on behalf of the family of a woman who was killed in a collision with a log truck in Lowndes County. The wreck happened on a dark stretch of a rural two-lane highway; our 41-year-old client was traveling 83 mph in a 55 mph zone in an effort to get to work. The top of her sedan was sheared off when it went under the trailer of the log truck. The log truck was blocking her lane of travel because the driver of the log truck was illegally backing it on the highway into a side driveway. The log trailer had only one working side lamp and its reflective tape was worn and very dirty.
David argued that no matter how fast our client was traveling, our client could not possibly see the trailer across the roadway and in the darkness, struck the trailer. She left behind a husband and two teenage sons.
