One summer's night, A 49 year-old semi-truck driver (D1), pulling a flatbed loaded with salvage cars for recycling traveled north on a three-lane state highway. D1 topped a hill, drove through a right curve when the unit rolled onto the driver's side, slide across the center line and entered a straight stretch approximately half way to the bottom of a hill. As D1's unit was sliding down the hill in the south bound lanes, a 52 year-old semi-truck driver (D2) hauling bottled beverages was traveling south in the straight stretch up the hill. As D1 slide down the hill, D2 tried to avoid being struck head-on and struck the guardrail. D2 was struck by D1; both vehicles caught fire and both drivers died at the scene.
Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Report for Kentucky: Two Semis Collide - Fire Ensues; Both Drivers Perish, FACE-11-KY-031
2013
7 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Transportation Safety , Road Transportation , Transportation & Traffic Planning , Management Practice , Transportation , Emergency Services & Planning , Police, Fire, & Emergency Services , Job Environment , Problem Solving Information for State & Local Governments , Accident analysis , Accident potential , Accident prevention , Accidents , Injuries , Injury prevention , Safety practices , Safety measures , Safety education , Safety equipment , Safety programs , Traumatic injuries , Work practices , Training , Workers , Work environment , Equipment operators , Drivers , Motor vehicles , Education , Safety belts , Fire hazards , Transportation industry , Transportation workers , Truck drivers , Three-lane state highway , Ladders , Guardrail