Loving County, TX — August 28, 2024, 53-year-old Jon Campbell was seriously injured in a multi-vehicle accident on County Road 300 in Loving County.
According to authorities, the incident happened around 1:10 p.m. on CR 300 near Ranch to Market Road 652. Preliminary investigation suggests a Mack semi-truck was towing a trailer north on the roadway near mile marker 20. Ahead in the road, a Ford F-150, Campbell’s GMC Sierra, and a Freightliner tractor-trailer were stopped for heavy traffic.
According to investigators, the Mack driver told them he tried to brake but his foot became stuck and he could not slow approaching the other vehicles. The Mack truck crashed into the Ford, pushing it into the Sierra, which in turn hit the semi-trailer attached to the Freightliner truck.
Jon Campbell sustained serious injuries in the chain-reaction crash. The Mack truck driver received non-life-threatening injuries. The Ford and Freightliner drivers were reportedly unhurt.
No further information is currently available.
Commentary by Attorney Michael Grossman
I don’t have any specific reason to doubt the Mack truck driver’s story here, but when I read that his foot supposedly got stuck while trying to brake, I can’t help but feel some skepticism. I’m sure it’s not impossible for a foot to get stuck around or under a pedal, but it seems like a doozy of a trick to get it stuck so fast and so hard that you can’t do anything but plow into traffic. So is it more likely that his foot somehow got unfixably stuck in an instant, or that he came up with an excuse on the spot because he didn’t want to admit to something else?
Look: I don’t know that man from Adam, and I don’t want to insult him. I just know from decades of experience that people sometimes get creative to avoid getting in trouble. Commercial drivers are no exception, and they have more incentive than your average Joe to cover their behinds since their jobs (and sizable insurance policies) hang in the balance. We’ve even occasionally found out their employers encouraged them to spin a yarn to investigators.
So how do we learn what really happened just before the crash? The same way we would any other time: Evidence. Forensic crash analysis, witness interviews, examination of the Mack truck and its supposed foot-trap pedals, electronic data from the truck’s control module, checking out the driver’s phone records for data use or texts, and many other sources of helpful data must be gathered and interpreted by experts. Of course, that’s easier said than done, so I hope investigators took the time and care needed to get the injured man the whole story he needs and deserves. If they didn’t, someone else may need to pick up where they left off.
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