Rios v. Norsworthy

ANDREWS, Presiding Judge.

While attempting to pass a tractor-trailer rig on the left on a two-lane road, Salvador Vicente Rios crashed his van into the driver’s side front section of the rig as he tried to merge right to avoid a head-on collision with a car approaching from the opposite direction. A passenger in the van who was injured in the crash sued Rios alleging he negligently drove the van. Rios filed a third-party complaint against the rig driver, Donald Norsworthy, the driver’s employer, Glenn Jackson Trucking Company, and the employer’s insurer, Redland Insurance Company. The…