On August 22, 2008, a New York jury awarded the family of a man killed in a tractor-trailer truck accident $29.4 million in damages.

The fatal commercial truck accident occurred in January 2002, when a truck smashed into the bottom of an overpass in Cornwall, New York. The woman of the killed man was driving, and swerved to avoid the wreckage of the accident when another tractor-trailer truck broadsided her SUV.

Her husband suffered from serious internal injuries and brain damage, which eventually left him dead. His 15-year-old daughter also suffered injuries in the tractor-trailer truck accident.

Defendants in the truck accident lawsuit included the truck driver, who was ticketed for driving an over-height vehicle, a Canadian company which owned the truck, and a Canadian leasing company that had insurance on the trailer.

Source: Oliver Mackson, “Jury awards Cornwall crash victim’s family $29.4M,” Times Herald-Record, August 23, 2008.