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Sumter County, FL: A Truck Driver Died on the Turnpike, and the Cause Is Still Unknown If you are reading this page, someone you love drove a tractor-trailer on Florida’s Turnpike through Sumter County on a Sunday evening and did not come home. The Florida Highway Patrol has told you the cause is unknown. That phrase — “unknown reasons” — is the most important two words in your case right now, and it is not the end of the story. It is the beginning of the investigation that determines whether your family has a case or walks away with nothing but a workers’ compensation death benefit and a grief that never lifts. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle commercial-truck wrongful-death cases, and we are writing this page for one person: the spouse, parent, or child of a truck driver who was killed in a single-vehicle crash and is now sitting at a kitchen table at 2 a.m. wondering whether what happened was just an accident or whether someone else’s choices put that truck on a path into those trees. Ralph Manginello has spent 27+ years in courtrooms, including federal court, building cases against companies that…