18 wheeler over the wall

[VitaMan]

At Dairy Ashford and 59 south, an 18 wheeler managed to clear the concrete wall barricade and stop traffic for hours. It took hours and hours to remove the wreckage.


Who gets to pay for that ?

[boardman]

Insurance...

[VitaMan]

Who pays for the cost to clean up the wreckage ?

[tbone2u]

Does it really matter?
It's not something you and I can control.

[boardman]

Originally Posted by VitaMan

Who pays for the cost to clean up the wreckage ?

Insurance

[VitaMan]

Can you expand on that.....what insurance ?


It happened in Sugarland. All kinds of emergency vehicles were there, in addition to what seemed like the whole police force. The driver of the semi was mentioned to have made an illegal lane change.


It doesn't seem likely the semi driver insurance company has a policy to cover all that.


In Chicago, the city is trying to collect from Jesse for all the extra investigative and police work that they did on his case.

[tbone2u]

Do you have insurance on your vehicle vm?
I don't know if BM is an insurance agent or not but if you are determined to find out exactly how insurance works in regards to these types of accidents...you may want to give your agent a call or possibly post a new question in this forum and direct your the question to an insurance agent. I would think we would have a few agents here on Eccie.

I'm definitely not smart enough to answer your question.

I hope this helps

[instfixer]

Originally Posted by VitaMan

Can you expand on that.....what insurance ?


It happened in Sugarland. All kinds of emergency vehicles were there, in addition to what seemed like the whole police force. The driver of the semi was mentioned to have made an illegal lane change.


It doesn't seem likely the semi driver insurance company has a policy to cover all that.


In Chicago, the city is trying to collect from Jesse for all the extra investigative and police work that they did on his case.

It was some sort of a chemical spill, with both sides of Hwy 6 closed off
I believe the insurance company will take care of it, but rates will rise.
Just like a DWI sideswiped two of my vehicles, HIS insurance paid.
The driver may find his CDL cancelled

[boardman]

Years ago I worked for a company that hauled heavy equipment as a part of it's overall operation.
We had a truck that lost a load which wasn't properly secured. The equipment rolled off the lowboy and overturned spilling about 100 gallons of diesel and some hydraulic oil. It ruined the asphalt. The spill kit on the truck wasn't sufficient for that amount of fluids so a third party hazmat response crew was called by the deputies working the scene.
As I recall(this has been close to 20 years ago) the damages to the road and the cleanup were paid for by the insurance company. I don't recall any bills for the deputies time for working the scene or the fire department. I think it could be reasonably argued that those units are in place for that purpose and paid for by taxpayer dollars so no real loss or damages occurred in that aspect. If you did recover that cost somehow it might open up a whole other can of worms. How would you repay that to the taxpayers?
The driver and the truck were thoroughly inspected and several tickets were issues which resulted in a few thousand $ in fines so that kind of paid for the deputies in my mind. I had to go to the scene and I wouldn't say there was an inordinate amount of units responding. It was enough for traffic control and one fire truck. When the whole city turns out most of them seem to be doing nothing but spectating. It would be hard to argue that they were necessary.