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Tragic Accident in Boone County with Fed-Ex Truck Kills Three.

Three Family Members Die in Accident with Fed-Ex Truck-Kentucky truck accident attorney
DATE:     November 17, 2009
LOCATION:     Verona, Kentucky
TYPE:     A 45-year-old woman, her 11-year-old son and 70-year-old father were all killed in an accident involving a Fed-Ex truck in Boone County Kentucky.

Shortly before 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon an accident involving a pickup truck and Fed-Ex truck occurred on Miller Owens Road in Verona killing three people.  According to the Boone County Sheriff’s Office the accident happened when 45-year-old Tamara Roberts of Warsaw was driving a pickup truck south on U.S. 42 when she lost control of the truck.  As a result the truck slid into the path of an oncoming Fed-Ex truck.

The Fed-Ex truck crashed into the passenger side of Ms. Roberts’s truck killing both her 11-year-old son, Dillon Roberts, who was seated in the front seat on the passenger side as well as her father, 70-year-old Dallas Wallace, who was seated on the back passenger side seat.  Both were pronounced dead at the scene and Ms. Roberts died on the way to the hospital.

The driver of the Fed-Ex truck suffered minor injuries and was treated at Saint Elizabeth Hospital in Florence, Kentucky.

Police have reported that wet and slick roads were one of the contributing factors.  This is a devastating accident that will make the upcoming holiday season exceptionally difficult for the family and loved ones of the Roberts and Wallace families.  My sympathies go out to them.