Jotto Desk

On Friday, January 29, 2010 in Lowell, Massachusetts, Eric Gremm, 59, of Tyngsborough was definitely a distracted driver. While eating chili as he drove his lumber truck, Mr. Gremm began choking, so such so that he blacked out and lost control of his truck. He awoke to find his truck had crashed into the front of a house!  There was one woman at home on the first floor of the multi-family home, but luckily she was in another part of the house at the time and was not injured. 

Click the image to see the video from the news station in Boston, MA WHDH-TV.


This brings up an important point for me... Will the Lumber Company he worked for be held liable for this accident since he was driving a company vehicle at the time? It is a topic that we discuss at Jotto Desk when talking about cell phone and laptop distracted driving.

Also important to note: City officials have found the house too structurally damaged to remove the truck, so they have condemned the building and are supposedly going to demolish around the truck instead of trying to drive the truck out. The driver of the truck luckily sustained only minor injuries and hopefully realizes now that the only thing you should do while driving is DRIVE!