Widower Says Texting Driver Killed His Wife

By GLYNIS FARRELL WOODSTOCK, Ill. (CN) - A lumber truck driver killed a woman by running a stop sign as he texted while driving, the woman's husband says. Alexander Lumber Co. employee Kenneth Englert broadsided the late Patricia McNamara's car on Sept. 30 "while using a telephone and/or texting," McNamara's husband says. Kevin McNamara sued Englert and Alexander Lumber in McHenry County Court. He claims Englert "failed to stop his vehicle for a stop sign," drove "at a speed greater than reasonable," and killed his wife by smashing a 2008 Ford Ranger pickup truck into her 2004 Chevy "while using a telephone and/or...

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