Attorneys For Victims Of Cement Truck Rollover Accident I-26 At College Park Road

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MOTHER AND DAUGHTER KILLED AS CEMENT TRUCK COLLIDES WITH VEHICLE AND OVERTURNS CAUSING CEMENT TO UNLOAD AND SUFFOCATE BOTH; DAUGHTER / TWIN SISTER SURVIVES, WITNESSING ENTIRE ACCIDENT

Family files lawsuits against Terex Corporation, Carolina Redi-Mix, and South Carolina Department of Transportation for deaths of mother and daughter, and severe injuries to surviving daughter / twin sister.

May 12, 2009- On May 12, 2008, Marcushire “Cushire” Akabi-Davis entered I-26 eastbound toward Charleston from College Park Road with her mother and twin sister traveling as passengers when her vehicle was struck by a fully loaded cement truck.
The truck was traveling 65 miles-per-hour, although its maximum safe speed rating according to the manufacturer was 55 miles per hour. The collision tipped the inherently top-heavy cement truck, which rocked before turning over on top of the Akabi-Davis vehicle and forced the two vehicles to slide together off the right shoulder of the highway onto a deep depression.

All occupants of the Akabi-Davis survived the initial collision, however, as the vehicles came to rest the barrel of the cement truck opened up and poured thousands of pounds of liquid concrete into the car and onto the mother and daughter who were trapped in the front seats. The cement smothered, burned and asphyxiated Christina Akabi-Davis and her daughter, Cushire Akabi-Davis.  Responders attempts to rescue Christina and her daughter were hampered by the hardening concrete.  Prior to her rescue from the rear seat of the vehicle, Maurishire "Rishire" Akabi-Davis, witnessed the rescue attempt and the excruciatingly painful deaths of her mother and twin sister.

Cushire and Rishire had just celebrated their 15th birthdays and were exceptional students at the Porter Gaud School in Charleston. Their father, Marcus Akabi-Davis, was stationed in Iraq at the time of the accident serving for the United States Army.