Deadly North Carolina Car Accident Claims Lives of Two Men
On Monday May 30th, a terrible North Carolina car accident left two men dead and one woman seriously injured in Spartanburg County. According to WSPA News: “The wreck happened next to the Raceway Gas Station on 1697 Boiling Springs Road at around 11:45 A.M. According to Lance Corporal Scot Edgeworth of the South Carolina Highway Patrol, the driver of the 2000 Nissan sedan was driving south on the Interstate 85 off ramp when he entered the Highway 9 intersection and struck another Nissan sedan, driven by Don Davis, 50, of Cowpens, head on.”
The crash took the lives of 43-year old Jerry Glenn Norris Jr. and 44-year old Clarence Jr. Matthews – the driver and passenger in the 2000 Nissan.
According to reports, the ultimate causes of the accident have not yet been clarified. For instance, did the driver of the 2000 Nissan fail to look for traffic during the merger? Was the other driver speeding? Was one or both of the drivers talking on a cell phone or digital device or otherwise distracted? How was the intersection engineered? Was it designed for maximum safety? Or were signs, lights, fixtures or other aspects of the road poorly designed? Did one or either of the vehicles suffer a problem like a brake failure or a safety engineering failure?
These and countless other variables are not easy to parse, sometimes even after extensive investigation. Truth be told, understanding the dynamics that cause fatal North Carolina car accidents is an incredibly complex and easy to screw up business. That’s why even the most reputable and experienced North Carolina car accident law firms utilize outside forensic specialists and redundant processes to establish facts and to build compelling arguments.
Can tragedies like this latest devastating news out of Spartanburg County ever be completely compensated? Almost certainly not. But what the rest of us can do is to learn from these events and to use them as a spring board to shape policy in a more compassionate, thoughtful, systematic, and process driven direction.
It is not enough simply to say “let this never happen again!” We need to go further and to think through how to change our safety structures, road engineering, and even the ways in which drivers communicate to fundamentally change the dynamics out there that contribute to injury car crashes.
More Web Resources:
NC Men Die In Spartanburg Car Crash
Two killed in two-car accident in Boiling Springs
