3 Teenage Students from Ole Miss Killed in Car Crash
Three teenage students from Ole Miss traveling to Oxford to attend church were killed in an automobile accident. The three victims, one 18 years old and the other two 19 years old, were killed when the 18-year-old’s Infiniti vehicle went off the road in I-55 near the town of Vaiden. According to a Highway Patrol Trooper, the vehicle went off an embankment and flipped several times before coming to a stop on its roof. All three of the victims were wearing their seatbelts and neither alcohol nor drugs were thought to be a factor in the accident. The three were all killed instantly upon impact.
The patrol trooper said the vehicle went into a drop-off and the vehicle struck the median of the road as they were traveling. There are many automobile accidents that occur because drivers do not see partitions in the roads or because they cannot stop in time before colliding with barriers in the road. Even if high speeds are not a factor in the accident, a vehicle could still be going the speed limit and end up in a severe collision with the median of the road. The fact that there was a drop-off in the road could have played a part in this accident as well. It is possible that the markings on the roadway were not clear enough and the 18-year-old driver did not see the drop-off in the road. Even at normal speeds it would have been very difficult for the driver to avoid going over the drop-off in the road.
Unfortunately, since this was a single-vehicle accident, there may not be much that can be done for the family’s to get compensation for their loss of loved ones. Unless the victims’ families can find something wrong with the roadway the victims were traveling on, this incident was a random automobile accident that may not have been avoided. However, there are still a number of factors that would need to be taken into consideration to determine if the families can seek legal representation for their loss. The most important factors revolve around the roadway itself where the victims were driving.
