• June 23, 2022

Grand Prairie, TX -- June 2, 2022, a Heath woman was injured due to an accident where her vehicle crashed with a truck on Belt Line Road.

Reports from authorities said that the crash took place at around 2:45 p.m. along Belt Line Road at the intersection of Hunter Ferrell.

Officials said that a 49-year-old Heath woman was in a Jeep Wrangler traveling southbound along Belt Line Road. At Hunter Ferrell, police said that a northbound semi-truck failed to yield making a left turn, resulting in a collision with the Jeep.

The Heath woman sustained injuries said to be incapacitating. No further information about the crash is available at this time.

Commentary on Truck Accident on Belt Line Road in Grand Prairie

Unless police are overlooking something important, it's challenging to envision a scenario in which this truck driver did nothing wrong. I would always encourage thorough investigations to even consider unlikely possibilities, but even the likely explanation that a mistake led this crash can involve unique hurdles requiring more experienced professionals.

For instance, I handled a truck wreck not long ago in which it turned out a reckless truck driver was actually just a poorly trained one. He had almost no experience driving trucks, but his employer was so desperate for warm bodies behind the wheel they put him in a truck, rushed through all of the safety training in about an hour, and got him driving. Any halfway decent trucker can attest to how incredibly stupid that is. It's essentially a time bomb waiting to go off.

Situations like that where there are more serious mistakes than, say, a truck driver just looking at their phone, require a lot more evidence and more involved legal maneuvering. After all, getting help for people is just one priority, high as that priority may be. Just about every family I help out also wants to be sure the right people are being held fully accountable for their actions. It remains to be seen if those steps are being taken here.

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