Tow Truck Crashes into Restaurant

A tow truck carrying a pickup truck on its bed crashed into the front of a Yoshinoya restaurant in the Wilshire Center Area, Los Angeles, at around 10:40 a.m. Thursday, July 2011. Officials stated that six people were injured in the incident, one
critically. Paramedics transported five of the six injured to an area hospital. The cause of the crash is under investigation. It is unknown whether the driver of the tow truck was speeding, under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs, suffered a seizure or other medical event, experienced brake or other equipment failure, was texting at the time, or whether
there was another cause of the incident.

In cases such as this, the legal doctrine of res ipsa loquitur – the thing speaks for itself – is usually relied upon by the victims’ lawyer to presume carelessness (“negligence”) on the part of the driver, as under ordinary circumstances a truck would not crash into the front of a restaurant or other store in the
absence of carelessness of the driver.

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