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Orange County Trucking Company May Pay for Safety Violations
July 26, 2007

On May 4, 2007, three tender lives were snuffed out in a horrific crash on the Santa Ana (I-5) freeway when a truck owned by the Carson, California based K.W. Express slammed through a parked minivan owned by Lori Coble. In the aftermath of the tragedy, it has been revealed that K.W. Express has been found wanting on at least 15 safety standards.

According to a report published by the Orange County Register on July 21st, Department of Transportation agents have found incredible traffic safety rules violations at K.W.Express, ranging from falsification of duty status documents that record how many miles drivers have traveled to the shocking absence of any written drug or alcohol policy at the company. Officials have given the company until September to appeal or risk compliance. For those who have been jamming forums insisting that the company might not deserve the blame for the accident, news of these violations should put all arguments to rest. A company that hires (in this case, contracts) drivers even before any drug or alcohol tests have been conducted deserves to be shut down.

Officials at K.W.Express have been pleading ignorance about the rules and are insistent that transportation officials go easy on them. What's even more shocking is that officials claim they weren't aware contracted drivers needed to be drug tested! Regardless of whether they were contracted or hired drivers, young lives have been cut short, immense injury has been caused and a family has been shattered.

You can expect personal injury attorneys for the Cobles to probe into how these hazardous safety violations could have impacted the tragic outcome of the accident.

If you've suffered personal injury due to brazen disregard for traffic safety like the one above, don't just sit by in silence. Call the personal injury attorneys at The Reeves Law Group.

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