• 15
  • April
    2011

Parents never expect to have to bury their children. When that tragedy occurs, it has to be an indescribably painful experience. Getting past the emotions of such an event can be difficult, but it's also important for justice to be served.

A pair of Texas parents is in the process of fighting for such justice. They lost their 23-year-old daughter to a Dallas car accident. They are suing the driver allegedly responsible for the crash in a wrongful death lawsuit. And he isn't the only target in their quest. The parents also blame the Dallas club for unethically serving alcohol to the driver.

Reports don't indicate exactly how much in compensation the parents want out of the wrongful death lawsuit. Their attorney says that the ultimate goal of the case is to prevent similar accidents from occurring in the future. Negligence isn't just illegal - it's deadly. That's the message the mourning parents want to get across to the liable parties and the general public.

In the case of the Dallas accident, both the driver and the bar were allegedly so negligent that the driver's blood alcohol concentration was 0.18 at the time of the fatal DUI crash. Reports claim that the defendant didn't even realize that he had run over the victim with all four of his monster truck tires. His truck was so high off of the ground that his field of vision was compromised, making his truck unfit for the road.

As for the bar named in the wrongful death suit, the parents argue that its employees shouldn't have served the driver so much alcohol. He was significantly beyond the point of legal intoxication, meaning that the bar should not only have stopped serving him but should have kept him from driving as well.

In cases involving the preventable personal injury or wrongful death of a victim, it could be just one act of negligence that leads to tragedy. In this case, however, it sounds like there was a troubling amount of recklessness behind the fatal accident. When there are new developments in the case, we will post an update.

Source

Star-Telegram: "Suit filed in case of woman killed by monster truck in Dallas," Chance Welch, 14 Apr. 2011