From the article - “Vance leaves a wife, who is pregnant...”
I'm very sorry for his wife and child, but if he was so in need of his nicotine fix (which was going to to contribute to an early death anyway) that he couldn't watch where he was going, he seems to qualify for a Darwin award...
The people who are to be pitied and receive sympathy are the wife and child, the parents, and the truck driver - not one who walked into the side of a moving big rig...