Parish Bears No Liability for Cement Truck Driver's Fatal Crash

A Louisiana appellate court ruled that the family of a truck driver failed to prove that his fatal accident had been caused by the defective condition of the road on which he had been traveling. Case: Rucker v. Parish of Ascension, No. 2017 CA 1754, 09/21/2018, unpublished. Facts: Albert Rucker worked for the Dolese Brothers Co. as a cement truck driver. On Jan. 8, 2014, Rucker made several trips up and down Merritt Evans Road to deliver loads of cement to a construction site. During his fourth trip down the road, Rucker’s cement truck went off the paved portion of the roadway partial...