Fiery tractor-trailer crash near Macon left a truck driver dead. His family is suing.
The family of a trucker who died in a crash with another tractor-trailer driver in Wilkinson County is suing the other driver and the company he worked for.
The lawsuit was filed by Brittney and Shemeka Wilson, the children of trucker Randal Wilson. The lawsuit alleges Navneet Singh, who drove a 2020 Freightliner Conventional truck for California-based company WRCH Transport Inc., negligently caused the crash and Wilson’s death because he ran a stop sign. He hit Wilson’s 1999 Freightliner Conventional truck, the lawsuit said.
The crash occurred at about 3:30 p.m. on May 21. The lawsuit said the truck caught fire and Wilson was burned alive.
Singh, WRCH Transport and Security National insurance company are named as defendants in the lawsuit. Security National provided liability insurance to WRCH, which “protects the public against injury to a person,” the lawsuit said.
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Wilson’s family alleges the lawsuit is worth more than $75,000, court records show.
On May 21, Wilson was traveling north on U.S. Highway 29 while Singh was heading west on U.S. Highway 112, approaching an intersection of the two routes, the lawsuit said.
The lawsuit alleges Singh was driving too fast for the conditions and failed to stop at the intersection’s stop sign, which caused the crash.
Wilson’s family alleges Singh failed to do the following:
Keep a proper lookout
Approach an intersection at a reasonable speed
Obey traffic control devices
Operate a commercial vehicle properly under federal rules
Exercise ordinary due care wile driving the truck
His actions were a result of a “conscious indifference to consequences,” the lawsuit alleged.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration regulates and provides safety oversight of commercial motor vehicles including Singh and Wilson’s Freightliner Conventional trucks in an effort to reduce crashes, injuries and fatalities.
The lawsuit also explained that Singh had other incidents in which he drove the truck unsafely, alleging that the California-based trucking company was negligent in hiring him and trusting him with a truck, and that Wilson’s death was foreseeable.
WRCH Transport is also accused of failing to comply with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, according to the lawsuit.
Brittney and Shemeka Wilson are requesting money for damages, attorney’s fees and a jury trial.
WRCH Transport didn’t respond to a request for comment when contacted by The Telegraph. A lawsuit only accounts for accusations, and none of the people being sued have filed legal replies to the allegations yet.
