Interstate accident results in damage to 4 vehicles

On behalf of Aiken and Aiken P.C. Personal Injury Attorneys posted in Car Accidents, on Tuesday, November 26, 2013

A four-car collision on Interstate 93 in Boston demonstrates why drivers need to pay greater attention to what is occurring on the roads. Initially, troopers were at the scene to assist a disabled vehicle in the right traffic lane. While one of the troopers was setting up flares, a 2002 Subaru Forester then crashed into the vacant State Police cruiser.After this collision, a 1999 Toyota Camry then struck the Subaru Forester. A Ford F-250 pickup then collided with the Toyota Camry. Though it appears that only the driver of the Toyota Camry was injured, one can imagine how what occurred could have been much worse.  At the time this story was published in the newspapers, state police were still in the process of investigating the matter.  No one was initially cited concerning the accident.There could be any number of reasons for why this series of accidents occurred.  Drivers could be traveling at excessive speed or could have been under the influence of alcohol when the collisions took place.Any investigation of an accident of this kind has to take into account the possibility of distracted driving.  There were at least three drivers that may not have been paying proper attention to other vehicles on the road.  If any of these three drivers noticed state troopers on the side of the road attending to a disabled vehicle, these drivers were not paying sufficient attention to avoid a collision.In any event, personal injury attorneys can assist injured victims in receiving compensation that they deserve for another driver’s negligence.  We cannot allow such accidents to continue because injuries will too often be much more traumatic than what occurred here. Source: The Boston Globe, “Woman injured, State Police cruiser struck in four-car crash in Boston,” Travis Anderson, Nov. 1, 2013