As a Jacksonville car accident attorney
I have been involved in many cases where victims are unable to tell EMTs or ambulance workers who to call in case of an emergency. These emergency medical technicians are trained to look at an injured victim’s cell phone to search for the contact “ICE”. ICE of course is “In case of emergency”. Be sure to input more than one phone number under your ICE contact list.
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Jacksonville accidents happen: Don’t forget to put ICE into your cel phone
Thursday, June 18th, 2009Jacksonville Trucker gets 7 Years in Prison for horrific crash
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Jacksonville truck driver Alvin Wilkerson was sentenced to seven years in prison for killing 7 children in a horrible trucking accident in Union County. Wilkerson fell asleep at the wheel of his tractor trailer before plowing into a car carrying 7 children from the same Florida family. The children’s grandfather, William Edward Scott, also died from a heart attack after learning of the deaths.
Wilkerson was 25 miles into his 85 mile trip hauling water from High Springs when he fell asleep. On average 5000 trucks a year are involved in fatal crashes. Of these accidents 2% are because of drivers falling asleep. Wilkerson was said to have been up for 36 hours when the crash happened. I can’t help but to think that with the price of gas being so high truckers maybe pushing themselves more and more to stay awake to get more jobs done.