Our Texas crash injury lawyers note a fatal dump-truck-school bus crash that occurred Thursday morning in Chesterfield, NJ. The fatal NJ school bus crash occurred about 8:30 a.m. at the intersection of Route 528 and Old York Road. The intersection reportedly was of the type that uses flashing lights to alert drivers to use caution when proceeding through.
The cause of the accident is still under investigation, and details of the fatal NJ school bus crash have not been released. But indications are that one vehicle might have failed to yield right of way at the intersection.
The dump truck struck the school bus on the driver’s side, damaging the rear of the bus and throwing it into a light pole. Muddy skid marks traced the path of the dump truck where it left the road and came to rest in a grassy field.
The NJ school bus carried 25 students. An 11-year-old girl, one of a set of triplets and a daughter of a NJ state trooper who lived close by the accident scene, died in the dump truck-school bus crash. 19 other students suffered injuries in the fatal NJ school bus crash. Two of them have life-threatening injuries.
As this tragic, fatal NJ school bus accident shows, intersections with flashing caution lights (rather than red lights that definitely show who has right of way) can be dangerous, even deadly. The Texas crash injury lawyers at Denena & Points understand that many people find intersections with the flashing caution lights, as well as intersections containing four-way stops, confusing. Sometimes it can be difficult to determine who has the right of way. Or one party might believe they hold the right of way when they actually do not.
Our Texas crash injury lawyers urge you, when in doubt, exercise caution and yield. Yielding doesn’t let the other guy “win.” It lets you win and survive to drive another day.
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