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Jefferson, Chesterfield County: When a Rear-End Collision with a Tractor-Trailer Turns Fatal on SC Highway 151 If you are reading this page, someone you love was killed on SC Highway 151 near Sandy Run Creek Road on the morning of August 3, 2026. A Ford van collided with the rear of a tractor-trailer on a rural two-lane highway in Chesterfield County, and the person driving that van did not survive. You are sitting with a grief that has not yet found its shape, and you are being told — by a news headline, by a word like “rear-ended,” by the silence of the official report that has not yet been completed — that the fault for this death is settled. It is not. The word “rear-ended” describes what happened. It does not explain why. And the why is the entire case. Here is the first thing we need you to hear: commercial tractor-trailers are not ordinary vehicles, and the people who operate them are not held to ordinary standards. They are governed by a body of federal safety regulations — the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations, Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations — that impose duties no passenger…