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Lancaster County Scooter-Tractor Trailer Fatal Crash: What the Family Needs to Know Now If you are reading this because someone you love was killed on Summit Hill Road, you have probably already seen the headlines. They say a woman lost control of her motor scooter, was thrown onto the road, and was struck by a tractor-trailer. The coroner ruled the death accidental. And you may be thinking that those two facts — “lost control” and “accidental” — mean no one is responsible, that the truck driver and the company behind that truck walk away, and that your family is left with funeral bills and a grief nobody answers for. We need you to hear something before you read another word of that news coverage. A coroner’s ruling of “accidental” describes the manner of death. It means the death was not a homicide and not a suicide. It says nothing — nothing — about who is legally at fault. And the Pennsylvania State Police preliminary finding that the rider “lost control” is exactly that: preliminary. It is the first-pass account of officers who arrived after the collision was already over, based on what they could see at the scene before the…