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When a Rear-End Crash Kills: What Just Happened on Highway 51 in Chesterfield If you are reading this page, someone you love is gone. A van rear-ended a tractor-trailer on Highway 51 in Chesterfield, South Carolina, shortly before 10:30 on a Monday morning, and the van driver did not survive. The South Carolina Highway Patrol is still investigating. No cause has been determined. And right now, you may be hearing the quietest, most dangerous sentence in all of trucking law: they rear-ended the truck, so it must have been their fault. That sentence is not the law. It is not the end of the investigation. And it is not something you should accept from anyone — not from an insurance adjuster, not from a trucking company representative, not from a well-meaning friend who read a headline and reached a conclusion. A rear-end collision with a commercial tractor-trailer is fundamentally different from a rear-end collision between two passenger cars, because the truck in front of your loved one was not just another vehicle on the road. It was an 80,000-pound commercial motor vehicle operating under a body of federal safety regulations that govern its lighting, its reflective markings, its warning devices,…