Bridge Accident Leads to $19 Million Law Suit

The families of three men killed in a May 2007 accident on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge filed a lawsuit against eight defendants for $19 million. The accident was caused when a trailer broke away from an SUV and caused a chain reaction of collisions on the bridge.

Included in the lawsuit is the Maryland Transportation Authority, which had closed some of the lanes on the bridge with no barriers in between lanes.

The original cause of the crash, however, came from the SUV. The driver of the vehicle was towing a home-made trailer, which became unhitched and collided with another vehicle on the bridge. Ultimately, eight people were injured in the series of accidents, three of them fatally.

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