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Waldwick Police Officer Killed by J.B. Hunt Tractor-Trailer on Route 17 — A Forensic Legal Analysis If you are reading this because someone you love was killed by a commercial truck on a New Jersey highway, we want you to understand something before you read another word: what happened was not an unavoidable accident. A commercial motor vehicle operator’s most basic duty — the one that every trucker is trained for, tested on, and licensed to perform — is to see and avoid stationary vehicles in the roadway. When an 80,000-pound tractor-trailer drives into the back of a parked car, that duty was not met. The question is never whether the crash was preventable. It is what the carrier and its insurer are already doing to make sure you never learn how preventable it was. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle 18-wheeler accident cases and wrongful death claims for families across the country, including in New Jersey. This page is a forensic legal analysis of a specific collision — the July 17, 2014, death of a Waldwick police officer who was struck from behind by a J.B. Hunt tractor-trailer while running speed enforcement on the…