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1 fatalfirecrash · 1798533 · 2022-02-28

Vehicle

Make
UNKNOWN
Model
UNKNOWN
Year
Manufacturer
UNKNOWN MANUFACTURER
Component
UNKNOWN OR OTHER

Severity

Deaths
1
Injured
0
Fire
Yes
Crash
Yes
Police report
Yes
Medical attention
No
Vehicle towed
Yes

Narrative

On November 13, 2015, my son, [XXX], was killed just a few miles west of Tijeras, New Mexico, when a semi-truck driver forced his Honda Civic off the road, causing his Civic to become pinned underneath the 2016 semitrailer built by Utility Trailer Manufacturing Company. [XXX] car was subsequently dragged for about 0.5 miles under the Utility semitrailer until his car caught fire. The autopsy confirmed he had no physical injuries from the crash; my son burned to death in his car that was trapped underneath the Utility semitrailer. [XXX] was killed driving to marching band practice at Manzano High School in Albuquerque. His death could have been prevented. Experts who reconstructed and analyzed the crash found that a side underride guard on the semitrailer would have saved Riley’s life. Utility Trailer Manufacturing Company was negligent because their newly-manufactured semitrailer lacked side underride guards. This case represents 1 tragic death; however, there are similarly hundreds of deaths and serious injuries annually from collisions with semitrailers lacking side underride guards, indicating that semitrailers without side underride guards contain a defect that presents an unreasonable risk to the public from a significant number of failures that is reasonably foreseeable. In fact, hundreds of deaths and thousands of injuries occurring annually from vehicles colliding with semitrailers that lack side underride guards demonstrates a defect because there is no dispute th

Source

Authoritative
NHTSA ODI Flat-File Downloads
ODI Number
11454443
Machine
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