Authorities responded to a gruesome accident scene near Texarkana on westbound Interstate 30 early Tuesday morning.  43 year-old Vaughn Gentry and 51 year-old Albert Pruitt were team truck drivers operating a tractor-trailer hauling newspaper inserts.  State investigators are still attempting to determine which person was actually driving the tractor-trailer that caused this fatal truck accident.  The truck crashed into several vehicles that were slowing in a posted construction zone.  64 year-old Victory Barker and 77 year-old Walter Carpenter were killed when the tractor-trailer rear-ended their small passenger cars.  The collision caused a massive explosion that shut down highway traffic for several hours.

Of note is that this fatal tractor-trailer accident took place in a construction zone at 2:30 a.m.  Our truck accident injury lawyers discover during litigation that more often than not, a fatigued truck driver was the root cause of a high-speed construction zone crash at night.  Fatigued truck drivers have impaired reflexes and reaction times, often resulting in rear-end truck crashes that cause serious injury or fatalities to motorists in passenger vehicles.  A Texarkana Fatal Truck Accident Lawyer should request that all evidence be preserved, especially the Frieghtliner's electronic control module (ECM).  Often times the ECM provides valuable information that will prove useful in any truck accident injury claim or wrongful death claim.

Contact an experienced truck accident injury lawyer by calling our toll-free hotline at (866) 840-3636.  Rest assured that the trucking conmpany will have its insurance carrier and representatives on site immediately gathering evidence for the defense to any subsequent injury claim or wrongful death claim filed against the company and its drivers.  Get an aggressive Arkansas truck accident injury lawyer on the scene to fight for your rights!