Heavy Haulers, Inc. v. Jones

This action arose from an accident involving the loaded truck of the defendant, Heavy Haulers, Inc., and the plaintiff’s pick-up truck. The two vehicles were meeting on a curve just outside Preston, Oklahoma, when, because of the negligent manner in which the truck was loaded, some of the steel floor plate loaded on the truck broke its boom chains and fell across the road and into the plaintiff’s vehicle. When he observed the falling steel the plaintiff turned his vehicle into the ditch and threw himself onto the floor of his truck in an effort to avoid the steel which appeared to be falling…