Little Rock, AR — May 1, 2024, Cameron Barker was killed following a commercial truck accident at around 4:45 p.m. on the I-30 frontage road.
Preliminary details from the Arkansas Department of Public Safety indicates the collision happened at 9524 westbound I-30 frontage road, just off McDaniel Drive.
According to officials, 23-year-old Cameron Barker was in a GMC going westbound along the frontage road. Up ahead, it appears a Freightliner pulled out of a parking lot onto the frontage road. Barker’s GMC ended up crashing into the Freightliner, resulting in Barker sustaining fatal injuries.
Right now, other details about the crash can’t be confirmed.
Commentary by Attorney Michael Grossman
One thing I haven’t seen authorities talk about is the exact timing of the events here. One of the reasons in-depth accident reconstructions are so important is because finding out how a crash could have been avoided may came down to fractions of a second.
Here, for example, I’m wondering if the truck driver looking for cross traffic and thinking they could turn safely onto the service road was reasonable. If a prudent professional driver would have seen the victim and waited for them to pass, what was different about this driver’s decision? Frankly, authorities are not always motivated to get so granular in their efforts, so it can take more thorough independent investigations to really determine how a commercial truck accident could have been avoided and why it wasn’t. Are those efforts happening here?
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