On June 12, 2008, a 38-year-old motorcyclist from Dallas, Texas was on his lunch break at a traffic light when a tractor-trailer truck reversed to allow room for another truck to turn, hitting the motorcyclist. The motorcyclist was pronounced dead at the scene of the truck accident.

Authorities ruled the man’s death as accidental due to multiple traumatic injuries. While the motorcyclist was in the truck’s blind spot, it was not known how close he was to the truck at the time of the tractor-trailer truck accident.

Source: Bob Kalinowski, “Accident claims motorcyclist’s life,” The Citizens Voice, June 13, 2008.