$62.7 million civil settlement reached in 2009 big rig accident

A tractor-trailer driven by Donald Creed of Willard, Mo., slammed into the vehicles that had stopped for the previous accident on the Will Rogers Turnpike near Miami on June 26, 2009.

The Trucker News Services

10/7/2010

NORMAN, Okla. — Attorneys for family members of eight of the victims who died last June when a tractor-trailer crashed into cars stopped for a previous accident, say a $62.7 million settlement was reached Wednesday night in a civil lawsuit.

Creed, age 76 at the time, of Willard, Missouri slammed into several vehicles that had stopped for a previous crash near Miami, Oklahoma.

A tractor-trailer driven by Donald Creed of Willard, Mo., slammed into the vehicles that had stopped for the previous accident on the Will Rogers Turnpike near Miami on June 26, 2009.  Creed, who was 76 years old at the time, was driving for Kansas City, Kan.-based Associated Wholesale Grocers.  Both were defendants in the case.

A relative of the other two victims had reached an earlier settlement.

Creed pleaded guilty this summer to negligent homicide and served a 30-day jail sentence.

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