Wheeler v. Estes Express Lines

ORDER

JAMES G. CARR, Senior District Judge.

These consolidated personal-injury cases arise out of an accident involving a disabled truck, a tow truck assisting the disabled truck, and a passing semi-truck on the Ohio Turnpike.

Plaintiffs Willard Wheeler, driver of the disabled truck, and Jeffrey Rogge, tow truck operator, allege that, while their trucks were on the Turnpike shoulder, defendant Kendall Ray drove his semi-truck onto the shoulder, where its trailer sideswiped Wheeler’s truck. Wheeler’s truck then shot forward, striking Wheeler and pinning Rogge between his tow truck and Wheeler’s…