Mason County, TX — May 1, 2024, Jerry Wayne Miller was killed as the result of a car accident at around 6:45 p.m. along U.S. Highway 377.
Preliminary details about the crash say that it happened outside of the town of Mason just west of the intersection of U.S. 377 and TX-26.
According to officials, 53-year-old Jerry Miller was in a Chevy Silverado going northbound along the highway. The vehicle somehow went to the left where it crashed head-on into a guardrail. Details say the guardrail pierced through the vehicle. Miller was killed as a result of the accident. Right now, additional details can’t be confirmed.
Commentary by Attorney Michael Grossman
I certainly don’t know more about this accident beyond what’s already publicly available. However, anytime that a guardrail goes through a vehicle, it’s worth finding out if there was a defect with that guardrail.
Generally speaking, guardrails are supposed to be able to deflect around a vehicle that hits it, even when straight on. It should bend off to the side away from the passenger cabin to ensure it doesn’t go through the vehicle and hit anyone inside. In more recent years, though, investigations have found instances where a guardrail fails to do this due to a manufacturing defect, and it leads to situations where a driver or passenger is killed in a crash which would otherwise have been survivable.
To be clear, none of this should supersede or exclude finding out other contributing factors. At the end of the day, the priority should be ensuring the victim’s loved ones have the whole story. It’s just that guardrail defects are rarely within the scope of a typical police investigation, and sometimes getting them to expand that scope means asking questions they didn’t think to ask.
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