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Law Office settles car accident leading to a man's death.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 by Jeffrey M. Braxton

A thirty year-old husband and father of two small children, died instantly when his car struck the rear of a tractor-trailer.  The deceased struck the back of an illegally parked tractor trailer on the shoulder of I-75 at 5:00 in the morning and died instantly.  The driver of the tractor trailer was sleeping and failed to turn his hazard lights on and put warning barriers required by law behind the trailer.  Additionally, construction was on-going in the area creating a deadly scenario as a contractor extended the original shoulder but failed to remove the original shoulder line.  This in turn created an additional thru-lane which was supposed to be a shoulder.  Prior to impact, the plaintiff believed he was in the thru lane but was mistakenly in the shoulder causing him to impact the back of the trailer.  Litigation on behalf of the spouse and children was initiated by attorney Jeffrey M. Braxton from the Law Office of Steven Slootsky against multiple parties including the tractor trailer owner, common-carrier and driver, and two construction contract companies.  All parties settled prior to trial. This settlement was confidential.

As a successful Fort Lauderdale car accident attorney, Jeffrey M. Braxton is a member of the Florida Bar, American Bar Association and Broward County Bar Association.

Posted at 16:05 PM
Topic: Personal Injury
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