Windsor and Detroit lawyers are continuing the investigation into the Detroit freeway crash that killed two Windsor area children.
Greg Monforton and his co-counsel Bob Darling from Detroit say weather was not the only factor in the incident on Interstate-75 that took the lives of Aidan Hicks, 7, and Gabrielle Greenwood, 9 on Jan. 31.
Darling says a transport truck that hit the Windsor family’s van had faulty brakes.
“The other vehicles were able to stop, or slow down, where it was nothing more than bumper cars, other than this particular truck,” says Darling.
The transport truck has eight sets of brakes, but only four of them were working, according to Darling.
“It was avoidable, it was preventable, it was completly needless,” says Monforton.
Darling says the driver of transport truck is from Michigan and has five previous road violations in the state.
The Detroit lawyer also believes the unidentified truck driver crashed into the vehicle driven by 54-year-old Menelaos Manolis, who died after the collision.
Monforton says the mom and step-mom of the kids who died, Kim Barrett, is now out of hospital and back in Windsor.
