Our Clear Lake truck wreck lawyers note a tragic, fatal dump truck wreck that occurred in Spring Lake, N.C. Cleveland Glenn was driving a dump truck belonging to R.E. Goodson Construction Company when he sped through a red light into the side of a van. The van contained a mother and her four children. The speed of the impact crushed the driver’s side of the van, killing the mother of four and injuring her children.
Spring Lake police chief Troy McDuffie told NBC that the company’s trucks had been speeding through the town for months, and that he had contacted the company multiple times to ask them to slow their trucks down and exercise more caution while driving trough Spring Lake. Apparently the company’s trucks were using the town as a short cut from a quarry to an overpass project on highway 295.
When the construction company’s trucks continued to chronically speed through town after multiple warnings, Spring Lake police stepped up traffic enforcement. News accounts reveal that Cleveland Glenn had received multiple violations on the very same highway where he later killed the mother of four after running a red light.
The Clear Lake truck wreck lawyers at Denena & Points note that Cleveland Glenn was charged with misdemeanor Death by Vehicle in the fatal dump truck wreck. Police say the company won’t be charged in the deadly wreck. Police say that since the fatal dump truck accident, the company’s trucks have slowed down and appear to be taking a route around the town to the overpass site. An owner of the R.E. Goodson Construction Company says that Glenn still works for them on the project, just not as a driver.
Our Clear Lake truck wreck lawyers find it a sad shame that a woman had to die, leaving four children motherless, in order for the company and its drivers to stop endangering Spring Lake citizens with their chronic speeding and reckless driving. We note that the police department’s failure to charge the company in the fatal dump truck wreck does not bar the surviving family members of the victim from pursuing a civil lawsuit for monetary damages against the company and against Glenn.
The family has a legal right to sue for just compensation after such a travesty. Glenn’s multiple traffic citations and the multiple warnings by the police to the construction company to slow down their drivers show that this fatal dump truck accident was entirely preventable had the company and its drivers only heeded the warnings.
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