{"id":59,"date":"2018-02-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garmerprather.lawblogger.net\/blog\/drowsy-truckers-asleep-at-the-wheel\/"},"modified":"2019-04-17T20:39:36","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T00:39:36","slug":"drowsy-truckers-asleep-at-the-wheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.garmerprather.com\/blog\/drowsy-truckers-asleep-at-the-wheel\/","title":{"rendered":"Drowsy truckers asleep at the wheel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tracy Morgan-the actor and comedian best known for his work on 30 Rock and Saturday Night Live-just about lost his life in an accident. Back in 2014, Morgan was a passenger in a limo van on the New Jersey Turnpike when a Wal-Mart tractor-trailer crashed into the van. The impact flipped the Mercedes with Morgan and five other passengers onto its side and smashed it into other vehicles. The crash involved a total of 21 people and 6 vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Even though Morgan spent two weeks in a coma after the accident and suffered a broken leg, nose, ribs and a traumatic brain injury, he fared better than his friend, James McNair, who died in the impact. It&#8217;s only been recently that Morgan has been able to return to performing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Driver fatigue was the cause<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.garmerprather.com\/blog\/drowsy-truckers-asleep-at-the-wheel\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Drowsy truckers asleep at the wheel\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tracy Morgan-the actor and comedian best known for his work on 30 Rock and Saturday Night Live-just about lost his life in an accident. Back in 2014, Morgan was a passenger in a limo van on the New Jersey Turnpike when a Wal-Mart tractor-trailer crashed into the van. The impact flipped the Mercedes with Morgan and five other passengers onto its side and smashed it into other vehicles. 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