INTRODUCTION
Since 2015, there have been more than sixty accidents involving Amazon delivery contractors resulting in serious injuries, with ten of those crashes causing deaths. Among those killed in the Amazon crashes was a nine-month-old girl, Gabrielle Kennedy. Gabrielle’s mom, Ellen Kennedy, was driving to drop off Gabrielle at daycare before heading to work, when a box truck rushing to deliver Amazon’s packages rear-ended her car. The driver claimed that he was running late, and, in his haste, he failed to see Ellen Kennedy’s Jeep. This crash killed baby Gabrielle, who was in the back strapped in her car seat. At the time of the accident, Ellen Kennedy was unaware that the driver was delivering packages for Amazon; she would not discover this fact until months later. The driver was charged with aggravated driving to endanger and ultimately went to jail. His position as a delivery driver paid around $600 a week, and he could not afford a lawyer. The driver received no help from his delivery company or Amazon …
Zachary B Pyers and Kenton H Steele, A Prime Opportunity for Tort Law Developments: Liability Issues Related to Amazon’s Delivery Service Partner Program, 50(3) Capital University Law Review 395. Published online 13 November 2022.
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