Truck Accident Lawyer Blog

Drivers of logging trucks are required to mark logs that hang off the back of their trucks with plainly-visible flags. On Memorial Day afternoon, a Pleasantville, New Jersey, man and two of his children died when their van collided with the back of a logging truck at a dangerous intersection in Marion County, South Carolina. The family had been visiting a relative in the area over the holiday weekend. The wreck happened on Highway 576, which is the main highway out of Myrtle Beach in the area. This is according to press reports from The State Newspaper and WPDE-TV. The only survivor was another of the man's daughters. Some press reports indicated that the surviving daughter was eleven years old, while others said she is thirteen years old.

Fifty-one year old Anthony Bennett died at the scene. His six-year-old son and eleven-year-old (or twelve-year-old, according to some reports) daughter died at the hospital a short time later. The surviving little girl was transported by helicopter to the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston.

The fatal collision snarled traffic for several miles along U.S. Highway 576 and U.S. Highway 501, as emergency personnel rushed to the scene, while thousands of beachgoers traveled through.

The Highway Patrol is still investigating the cause of the accident.