Head-on crashes are more frequently fatal than many other types of wrecks due to the high speeds and impact forces usually involved. Many head-on crashes are caused by people driving the wrong way down the road, as happened in a fatal Houston collision on Memorial Day weekend. Statistics show that more than 60% of the wrong way drivers are drunk at the time of the fatal accidents they cause.
But head-on crashes also result from driver distraction, speeding, and driver impatience, among other things. For example, one recent collision that claimed the life of Mattie Jones, 82, occurred because a driver in a Dodge pickup truck tried to go around a slowing vehicle pulling a Meals on Wheels trailer. The Dodge sideswiped the Meals on Wheels truck before crashing head-on into Ms. Jones’s car. Another vehicle also became snared in the crash, and reportedly one victim was trapped in a vehicle at the scene.
The fatal crash in Longview, Texas happened on FM 1844. 31-year-old Leon Gearhart, the driver of the Dodge pickup truck, reportedly was being charged with criminally negligent homicide. (Michael Cavazos, Longview News-Journal, 5/20/14) The Pearland car accident attorneys at Denena Points, PC express their sincere condolences to the family and friends of Ms. Mattie Jones.
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