Route 202 Empty-Trailer Hydroplaning in Moscow, Somerset County, Maine Killed Serge Poulin of Quebec — Attorney911 Pursues the Motor Carrier Behind the At-Fault Commercial Driver, 49 CFR § 392.14’s Adverse-Weather Duty Requires Extreme Caution and Speed Reduction in Heavy Rain, an Empty Trailer’s Reduced Axle Weight Lowers the Hydroplaning Threshold a Professionally Trained CDL Holder Should Anticipate, We Extract the EDR Black-Box Data, ELD Telematics and Tire Records Before the Carrier Returns the Truck to Service, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, Maine’s Statutory Wrongful-Death Action Brought by the Personal Representative on a Short Limitations Period Running From the Date of Death, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911
Moscow, Maine Tractor-Trailer Hydroplaning on Route 202 — What Happened, Who Is Liable, and What the Poulin Family Needs to Know Right Now You are reading this because someone you love is not coming home. Maybe you got the call in Quebec — a voice telling you that a truck crossed into his lane on a rural Maine road and that there was nothing he could do. Maybe you are sitting in a kitchen that is too quiet, trying to understand how a Monday morning on Route 202 turned into the worst day of your family’s life. We are going to tell you what happened, what the law says about it, and what you need to do — and we are going to tell you straight, because that is what you deserve right now. Here is the first thing you need to hear: this was not an unavoidable accident. A professional truck driver hauling an empty trailer in heavy rain has a federal duty to slow down — and if the rain is bad enough, to stop. The trailer that crossed into oncoming traffic on Route 202 in Moscow, Maine, on that Monday morning did not slide on its own.…