By Kevin Barlow
Pantagraph.com
PEORIA, Ill. — A Hudson firefighter is suing a trucking company and a driver over injuries he suffered in March in an Interstate 39 accident that also killed a fellow firefighter.
Tyler Cobler’s federal lawsuit names Move It Auto Transport and Mansur Shakirov, both of Washington State, as defendants. The March 5 accident damaged three Hudson Fire Department vehicles, injured five firefighters and killed Hudson firefighter Chris Brown, who also was a full-time firefighter with the Bloomington Fire Department.
“One of the main goals of this lawsuit is to hold these people fully accountable,” said Kenneth J. Allen with the Allen Law Group, based in Valparaiso, Ind. “Our most important goal is to prevent this from happening again.”
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