Mineral County, NV — March 28, 2025, one person was killing in a truck accident at about noon on Interstate 95/Veterans Memorial Highway.

Authorities said a commercial vehicle was heading south near mile marker 37 when a bracket came off its flatbed trailer and crashed through the windshield of an SUV on the other side of the highway.

The impact killed the SUV driver, whose name has not been made public at this time, according to authorities.

No other injuries were reported.

Authorities have not released any additional information about the Mineral County crash. The accident is still under investigation.

Commentary by Attorney Michael Grossman

When something like a metal bracket flies off a flatbed trailer and kills someone traveling in the opposite direction, most folks are probably left asking, “How does something like that even happen?” In my experience, the real answer usually lies far upstream from the crash itself. It’s easy to picture this as just an unfortunate one-off incident, but in the courtroom, these events rarely turn out to be that simple.

Let’s start with the basics. The most obvious legal question here is: Who failed to make sure the cargo was secured? Commercial trucking regulations are clear: anything loaded onto a trailer, especially a flatbed, must be properly secured using appropriate tie-downs or brackets. When something falls off a truck and becomes a deadly projectile, there’s a breakdown somewhere in that process. The question is where.

From what I’ve seen in similar cases, it could be the truck driver who didn’t double-check the cargo before hitting the road. Or maybe the fault lies with whoever loaded the bracket in the first place. Then there’s the company the driver works for: were they giving him the tools and training needed to catch a problem like this before it turned deadly? I’ve litigated cargo cases before where everyone involved — from the shipper to the company that planned the load — had a hand in the result​​.

The fact that the bracket made it across the median and hit a vehicle on the other side of the highway suggests that this wasn’t just a minor piece of debris. That tells me it either wasn’t secured at all or the device meant to hold it in place failed. Either way, the law expects commercial carriers to anticipate these risks and prevent them.

Investigators at the scene can recover the bracket and document the damage. But to figure out how it came loose, they’ll need more than just crash photos. They’ll need maintenance records, loading procedures and statements from everyone who touched that load before it hit the highway. That kind of digging doesn’t always happen automatically. And if no one’s asking those questions, then we’re not really investigating: we’re just describing what happened after the fact.

The bigger point I want to make is this: when someone dies because a piece of a commercial truck’s cargo comes off in motion, it’s not just a freak occurrence. It’s usually the result of a series of poor choices that never should’ve made it onto the road in the first place. Getting to the truth means looking at more than just the crash: it means asking how the cargo got there, who secured it and whether anyone raised a red flag before it was too late.