Knoxville Personal Injury Lawyer

Just before Thanksgiving tragedy struck a family whose daughter was killed in a tractor trailer accident along I-40. Lindsey A. Toft was a passenger in an SUV with three other teens, including Lindsey’s sister Jessica Toft. Apparently an 18-wheeler signaled to move into the right hand lane of the Interstate where the SUV was traveling. Matthew Harris, the driver, blared his horn in an attempt to stop the tractor trailer, but he was forced off the road and into a guardrail. The car then spun around and was struck by another tractor trailer, upon which Lindsey was thrown from the vehicle. The Herald Citizen tell more:

The four teens had been to Crossville to see a movie and were on their way back home, the trooper said. In the westbound lanes just east of Monterey, a tractor trailer truck was traveling in the left lane alongside the Ford SUV. The truck driver attempted to enter the right lane, and that forced Matthew Harris to swerve over off the road to avoid being hit, and the truck traveled on, the trooper said. “The truck had given a signal that he was moving over, and Matthew Harris blew his horn, but had to move to the side to keep from being hit,” the trooper said. The Ford SUV may have been in the trucker’s blind spot, Trooper Bilbrey said.

After moving over, the Ford SUV hit the guardrail, then bounced back onto the highway and struck another tractor trailer truck which had been traveling right behind the Ford, the trooper said. “That second truck swerved trying to keep from hitting Matt’s SUV, but there was a collision, and Lindsey A. Toft was ejected through the back window.” The two girls in the back seat were not using seatbelts, the trooper said.

This tragedy should never have happened. Hopefully the driver of the 18-wheeler will be located and help responsible in an appropriate manner. We wish the victims and their families the best.

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