Sanders v. Insurance Co. of North America

ELLIS, Judge.

Linda M. Sanders, appellant, is the widow of George D. Sanders. Mr. Sanders was employed as a semitraetor-trailer driver for Arkansas Best Freight Systems, Inc. (“ABF”). On October 13, 1986, Mr. Sanders was driving an ABF truck in southeast Missouri when the driver of another semitruck, Jerry Wayne Page, lost control of his vehicle, crossed the center-line, and struck the truck Mr. Sanders was driving head-on. Mr. Sanders died from the injuries he sustained in the automobile accident. Mr. Page was also killed in the accident, and it was later determined that he was an uninsured…