Toll Plaza Accidents
Your mind races with worries when you know that an inexperienced driver you love is driving, or when an experienced driver you love is driving under dangerous conditions. Many of these worries involve driving at high speeds. The worst accidents, or the ones that lodge themselves in people’s memories as being the worst, seem to involve driving at high speeds. When driving on interstate highways or deserted rural roads, there is plenty of room to gain speed, making it harder to stop in time to avoid a collision and easier to lose control of one’s car. What the worry warts of the world fail to account for is that at least as many accidents happen in places where there is little room to speed. Plenty of accidents happen in parking lots and on residential streets as drivers back out of driveways. By this logic, one would assume that toll plazas would be the safest part of a road trip, only to be surprised that it can be as disastrous to crash there as it is to crash in any other places where cars are just as likely to stop as they are to go. If you have suffered injuries in a car accident at a toll plaza, contact an auto accident lawyer.
Driver Crashes Into Toll Booth at Egg Harbor Toll Plaza
Some people plan their summer road trips around avoiding paying tolls, but the toll plaza at Egg Harbor was the site of an accident in August 2025. At around 8:00 in the evening, a driver who was trying to pass through the Egg Harbor Toll Plaza on the Atlantic City Expressway in Hamilton Township lost control of his car. The car caught fire, and the driver, John Warlow of Hammonton, died of his injuries. He was 36 years old.
Who Is Responsible for the Egg Harbor Toll Plaza Accident?
In single vehicle accidents, most insurance claims and police investigations reach the conclusion that the driver bears responsibility for the accident. In the Egg Harbor Toll Plaza accident, it is not clear what caused Warlow to lose control of his car. If the cause of the accident was unsafe road conditions, such as lanes that were not marked, excessively bright lights at the toll plaza that made it hard to see the road, or a slippery surface on the road that local authorities had failed to remedy, then the city or state could be legally responsible for the accident under premises liability laws. If the driver in a single vehicle accident was driving under the influence of alcohol, dram shop liability laws might apply, which means that the victim’s family can sue the bar that served alcohol to the driver before the accident. If a manufacturer’s defect in the car caused the accident, the car manufacturer could be responsible under the doctrine of product liability.
Contact Monaco Law About Car Accidents
Contact Monaco Law PC in Marlton, New Jersey and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to discuss your car accident case. Joseph Monaco is a New Jersey and Pennsylvania personal injury lawyer serving Atlantic County, Bucks County, Burlington County, Cape May County, Camden County, Chester County, Cumberland County, Delaware County, Gloucester County, Mercer County, Middlesex County, Monroe County, Montgomery County, Philadelphia, Ocean County, Salem County, Susquehanna County and all of New Jersey.
Source:
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