Anderson County, KY — October 24, 2024, three people were injured following a semi-truck accident at around 6:30 a.m. along Bluegrass Parkway.
Authorities said in initial statement that the accident happened in the area of Bluegrass Parkway and Carey Mill Road, several miles west of Lexington.
Right now, details about the crash are limited. Authorities say that there was a pickup truck and semi-truck involved. Authorities suggest that events began after a semi-truck somehow crashed into a bridge pillar, overturned, then caught fire. Afterwards, a pickup crashed into the truck’s trailer.
As a result of the collision, at least three people were reportedly injured. Their injuries were described as serious. Right now, additional details are unavailable.
Commentary by Attorney Michael Grossman
While details are unclear right now, there are inherent challenges that come with just about any serious truck wreck. It’s important to anticipate these challenges, even if it’s just out of an abundance of caution. Too often, folks just assume authorities are going to be able to clean up the scene, get traffic going again, and do a thorough, complete crash investigation. In reality, their efforts often come up short when it comes to getting victims and families involved in a commercial vehicle accident the exhaustive details they need to tell their side of the story.
For example, I had a case not long ago involve a commercial vehicle. The family involved called us with concerns because they patiently waited to hear back from authorities, yet they still had no answers. We dug into things, and it turned out that the investigating officer was waiting on information from the trucking company. Shockingly, the officer allowed a company representative who was at the crash scene to pull the truck’s Engine Control Module. The rep simply promised they’d share their findings later on, and the officer thought that was a good idea.
To this day, thinking about that makes my jaw hit the floor. The ECM is like a black box that can show information like a truck’s speeds and even braking leading up to the collision. Letting the trucking company take that without independently preserving the evidence and then relying on them to analyze the information for the invesitgation would be like asking a murder suspect to dust for fingerprints. There would be no way to trust the information they came up with. We were able to salvage that case for the family, but one inexperienced officer’s slip up nearly torpedoed a family’s ability to get a just resolution after a serious truck wreck.
Simply put, I’ve handled hundreds of commercial vehicle accident cases, and stories like that are not unusual. Without careful steps from independent investigators, leaving things solely up to the authorities only risks letting something important slip through the cracks. For folks involved in such a serious accident, I can’t imagine anyone would say that’s a risk worth taking.
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