16-year-old Kara Taylor was killed in an accident on the Dallas Tollway
On May 10, 2009 16-year-old Kara Taylor of Little Elm, TX was killed in a car accident on the Dallas North Tollway. The accident occurred just after midnight as Taylor's Mercury Mountaineer was struck by a Ford pikcup truck driven by 24-year-old Mariza Martinez. Martiniez was allegedly driving at a high rate of speed in the wrong direction on the Tollway. Taylor was pronounced dead shortly after arriving at the hospital, and a passenger in her vehicle was hospitalized.
Unknown charges are pending against Martinez.
Posted by:
Dallas wrongful death attorney Michael Grossman
| Posted on:
5/12/2009
| Comments (5)
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Dallas Texas wrongful death attorney Michael Grossman said:
I want to start by offering my condolences to Ms. Taylor's family. This is something that no parent should ever have to experience.
This accident is really quite infuriating. In my line of work, I have dealt with many death cases and investigations on the Dallas North Tollway, and the main question that comes to mind is "How in the world does anyone accidentally drive the wrong way on this road?"
If you have never seen the Dallas North Tollway, it is a highway type road with concrete walls spanning most of its length. Access to the tollway is very controlled and almost every single entrance or exit has a toll booth with signs all over the place letting you know if you are going the wrong way. In fact, if I was asked to pick a road that would be very challenging to accidentally go the wrong way on, I would probably pick the Dallas North Tollway.
Now the obvious answer to the rhetorical question posed above is, unfortunately, more than likely "alcohol".
In every single one of the cases my firm has worked involving deaths on this road, and in every single wrong-way-driver accidents on the tollway I have ever heard of from colleagues and the local media, drunken driving has always been the reason. I want to make it clear that I am not making any accusations whatsoever, but that has been the rule and not the exception in every such case I am familiar with.
How many young people have to die due to the alleged negligence of others?
I wish the best for Ms. Taylor's family.
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camille collinsworth said:
Kara Taylor was my childhood friend. I spent almost every day of elementary school at her house playing in her yard and pretending the bunk beds were our kingdoms. she was an important friend in my life that moved to little elm but i never forgot her. I'm left angry at how a mere accident has left her just a childhood memory. She taught me a lot in those years, I was going through some rough things at home. She never let me down. I know she was meant to do great things, i know she will be terribly missed. god bless.
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Whitt bonner said:
Kara was my lifelong friend thanks for supporting us
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Mary Armstrong said:
The night of this incident, my son was returning home from working on Main Street in Frisco. He entered the tollway at Main Street. He encountered this driver who was drunk at the time according to toxicology results. Fortunately, he was able to avoid her by pulling over into the middle shoulder. He is a young driver and was in the left lane so he swerved to the left shoulder. He then telephoned 911 and then his sister as he was so shook up. The accident must've happened approximately a couple minutes after Joel encountered this driver as reports said that the accident was called in at 12:28 and I believe he called my daughter at 12:26.
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Shana said:
I saw Kara's wreck and I went to school with her. It hot our school hard she was loved by many people and missed dearly!
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