Lawsuit Filed in North Carolina Tractor-Trailer Crash

Press Release, Jun 13, 2007

Fort Worth, TX - March 14, 2007 -- The family of a Katy, Texas, man who was killed in a fiery truck crash on a North Carolina highway last month has filed suit against a Texas trucking company and one its drivers.

On Feb. 16, Christopher Friday Oko, 40, was a passenger in a tractor-trailer that slammed into two other big rigs parked on the side of Interstate 85 near Creedmoor, N.C., not far from Durham. Mr. Oko, a father of five – including six-week-old twins – was killed when the truck he was traveling in exploded. A pedestrian at the scene also was hit and killed.

Xiujie Zhang Warner, 48, of Houston, the driver of the truck carrying Mr. Oko, has been charged with two counts of death by vehicle. Police reports indicate Ms. Warner was traveling at a high rate of speed before losing control of her tractor-trailer and running off the road where she hit the other two trucks.

“This is an awful tragedy for the people who knew and cared about Chris Oko,” says attorney John David Hart of the Law Offices of John David Hart in Fort Worth, who represents the family. “We need to do everything possible to care for those who have been left behind.”

The lawsuit names Ms. Warner and the rig’s operators, Arlington, Texas-based Rockshell Trucking Company and Rockshell Investments, Inc., as defendants.