About 5:38 a.m. eastern standard time on Friday, March 2, 2007, a 2000 VanHool T2145 57-passenger motorcoach operated by Executive Coach Luxury Travel, Inc., transporting 33 members of the Bluffton University baseball team, the driver, and his wife, was traveling south on Interstate 75 in Atlanta, Georgia. According to witnesses, the motorcoach was in the southbound high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane at milepost 250 when it departed the interstate, traveling at highway speed, onto the HOV-only left exit ramp to Northside Drive. The exit ramp came to an end at the stop sign-controlled T-intersection with Northside Drive. As the motorcoach entered the intersection at an estimated speed of 50 to 60 mph, the driver steered to the right and collided with the reinforced portland cement concrete bridge wall and chain-link security fence located along the southern edge of the eastbound lanes of the overpass. The motorcoach then overrode the bridge rail, rotated clockwise, and fell 19 feet onto the southbound lanes of the interstate. The motorcoach came to rest on its left side (drivers side), perpendicular to the southbound lanes of Interstate 75. Two southbound passenger vehicles received minor damage from debris as the motorcoach fell onto Interstate 75; none of the passenger vehicle occupants were injured. Seven motorcoach occupants were killed: the driver, the drivers wife, and five passengers. Seven other passengers received serious injuries, and 21 passengers received minor injuries. Major safety issues identified in this accident include inadequate HOV traffic control devices, inadequate motor carrier driver oversight, lack of event data recorders on motorcoaches, and lack of motorcoach occupant protection. As a result of its investigation, the Safety Board makes recommendations to the Federal Highway Administration and to the Georgia Department of Transportation. The Safety Board also reiterates four previous recommendations to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.


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    Titel :

    National Transportation Safety Board Highway Accident Report: Motorcoach Override of Elevated Exit Ramp, Interstate 75, Atlanta, Georgia, on March 2, 2007


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2008


    Format / Umfang :

    76 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch