08/05/2009
Texas wrong-way driver fatality in Dallas on the Dallas North Tollway has increased the Texas automobile accident death count by 3.
Dallas wrong way accident lawyers alert another automobile accident, involving the wrong way driver of a sedan, killed both drivers and one passenger early last Friday morning. According to the Dallas Morning News, Dallas area firefighters and police officers responded to the tragic wrong-way car crash on westbound Interstate 20 near the South Polk Street overpass in Dallas early Friday morning. Apparently, 45 year-old Karla Rivers of Cedar Hill was returning home from her shift at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas around 12:30 a.m., when the fatal automobile accident occured.
Rivers worked as an office employee at Baylor and was traveling westbound near Polk Street in the Red Bird area in her Jeep sport utility vehicle (SUV) when a black Infiniti, going the wrong way, slammed into her SUV head-on. The driver, 29 year-old Ramiro Moreno and his passenger, 21 year-old Ian Edward Pierson, along with Rivers all died at the scene of the crash. The Dallas County Sheriff’s Department confirmed alcohol was found in the car of the wrong-way driver. Alcohol is suspected to have been a factor in the fatal SUV accident involving the driver of the wrong-way motor vehicle. Wrong-way drivers, on the Dallas North Tollway, has become a hot topic with four deaths this year and alcohol is suspected as a factor in most of the crashes.
The North Texas Tollway Authority (NTTA) has installed new “wrong way” and “do not enter” signs since the slew of recent wrong way driver fatalities has began plaguing the Dallas North Tollway. New reflective shaped arrow buttons are also being installed on the lanes at tollway exit ramps by the NTTA. When a wrong-way driver’s headlights hit the new reflective buttons, the red arrows, pointing at the driver entering the tollway in the wrong direction, will glow red. Officials in the Dallas area are continuing to investigate and address the causes and preventive solutions to wrong-way driver accidents. If you or someone you love has been injured or killed because of another driver’s carelessness you may be entitled to compensation for your injuries and damages. Contacting a Dallas personal injury lawyer who is experienced with wrong-way driver accident claims may help you recover.
Texas personal injury claims new for Dallas wrong-way accident victims by Brian A. Eberstein, a Dallas wrong-way accident lawyer. http://www.dallastexaspersonalinjurylawyers.com/
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