(Bloomberg) — Actor-comedian Tracy Morgan sued Wal-Mart Stores Inc. for negligence over a New Jersey Turnpike accident last month that left him critically injured after a company truck driver went at least 24 hours without sleep.
Wal-Mart “knew or should have known” it was unreasonable for trucker Kevin Roper to commute about 750 miles and then work almost 14 hours before crashing into a van carrying Morgan, according to a complaint in federal court in Trenton, New Jersey. It seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages.
Roper drove from his home in Jonesboro, Georgia, to a Wal-Mart facility in Smyrna, Delaware, before making deliveries and pickups in New Jersey, Delaware and Pennsylvania, the National Transportation Safety Board said last month. He drove at 65 miles (105 kilometers) per hour for the 60 seconds before the June 7 crash in an area where the speed limit was 45 mph due to construction, the NTSB said. He has been charged with death by auto and assault.
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