Motorcyclist Dies Attempting To Pass Semi Truck

Even if you are the one driving the entire time, road trips are a lot of fun. You can stop for lunch at a Waffle House far from home and show your kids one of the last remaining jukeboxes in the world, while they express bewilderment at why anyone would pay money to hear music from a device that has only a small fraction of the number of songs you can find on YouTube. Even if you are too frugal and too time efficient to stop for a meal at Waffle House, you can literally count the headlights on the highway, as the song says. Even if you never tire of playing 20 questions with your kids or singing “99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall,” some parts of road trips are inherently stressful. For example, it is no fun driving on stretches of the highway where there are multiple 18-wheeler trucks. You would love to leave them in the dust, but they are so big and intimidating, so big, in fact, that when you drive past them, you feel like the air that they have displaced by their sheer size is sucking your vehicle into a vortex. The smaller your vehicle is, the scarier the situation feels. If you got injured in a collision while trying to avoid a commercial truck on the highway, contact a Columbia motorcycle accident lawyer.

Fatal Collision on Highway 15 in Marlboro County

In May 2025, Zonya Jensen was driving a Harley Davidson motorcycle on Highway 15 in Marlboro County. Jensen attempted to pass a Kenworth tractor-trailer that was in front of her in the lane of traffic. While she was attempting to pass the truck, she lost control of her motorcycle and collided with the truck. She was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident. News reports did not give her age, and she does not have an obituary posted publicly online.

Jensen was a resident of Pennsylvania, and news reports about the accident did not indicate why she had come to South Carolina or how long she had intended to stay; several motorcycle rallies take place in South Carolina every May, bringing visitors from all parts of the country. If Jensen’s relatives wish to file a wrongful death lawsuit in connection to her death, they must do it in South Carolina, because the courts of South Carolina have jurisdiction over lawsuits arising from accidents that happen here. The most likely defendant in a lawsuit arising from an accident like this one would be the company that owns the truck involved in the collision. If a manufacturer’s defect in the motorcycle contributed to the accident, then Jensen’s family could file a product liability claim against Harley Davidson.

Let Us Help You Today

The personal injury lawyers at the Stanley Law Group can help you get adequate compensation after an accident involving a motorcycle and a commercial truck.  Contact The Stanley Law Group in Columbia, South Carolina or call (803)799-4700 for a free initial consultation.

Sources:

wmbfnews.com/2025/05/14/pennsylvania-woman-identified-motorcyclist-killed-pee-dee-crash/

wmbfnews.com/2025/05/13/motorcyclist-lost-control-before-hitting-semi-truck-deadly-pee-dee-crash-schp-says/