{"id":16494,"date":"2024-11-18T16:12:25","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T16:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/81m-lawsuit-filed-against-fedex-for-death-of-motorist-standing-on-shoulder\/"},"modified":"2024-11-18T16:12:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T16:12:25","slug":"81m-lawsuit-filed-against-fedex-for-death-of-motorist-standing-on-shoulder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/81m-lawsuit-filed-against-fedex-for-death-of-motorist-standing-on-shoulder\/","title":{"rendered":"$81M lawsuit filed against FedEx for death of motorist standing on shoulder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_84\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>The family of a motorist killed in an accident with a semi truck has filed a $81M lawsuit against FedEx for the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The accident happened back on December 20th, 2022 at about 5 a.m. near Rooster Rock State Park in Oregon on Interstate 84.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/commuting\/2024\/11\/fedex-sued-for-81m-after-truck-kills-man-who-stopped-to-help-another-driver-on-icy-i-84.html?outputType=amp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Oregon Live<\/a>, 65-year-old Israel Gonzales Sanchez was stopped on the shoulder of I-84 helping another motorist in icy conditions when a semi truck leased to FedEx by True North Trucking Co. slid in the icy conditions and struck Sanchez as he stood on the shoulder.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The suit alleges that the truck driver was traveling too fast for conditions and, and faults FedEx for allowing its drivers to operate in dark, wet, and cold conditions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFedEx has long known of the extreme hazard for commercial truck driving during the \u2018Danger Zone,\u2019 between midnight and 6 a.m., during which time truck collisions involving death and serious bodily injury are seven times more likely to occur,\u201d states the suit.<\/p>\n<p>Both FedEx and True North are named in the suit. Neither have commented on the issue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cdllife.com\/2024\/81m-lawsuit-filed-against-fedex-for-death-of-motorist-standing-on-shoulder\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The family of a motorist killed in an accident with a semi truck has filed a $81M lawsuit against FedEx for the incident.\u00a0 The accident happened back on December 20th, 2022 at about 5 a.m. near Rooster Rock State Park in Oregon on Interstate 84.\u00a0 According to Oregon Live, 65-year-old Israel Gonzales Sanchez was stopped&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}