About 10:00 a.m. e.s.t., on January 25, 1978, a Kohler Company tractor-semi-trailer, carrying a 43,000-lb cargo of feldspar, was southbound on North Carolina Route 226. As it descended a steep grade, braking capability was lost because the brakes were out of adjustment. The operator steered the tractor-semitrailer into the northbound lanes at a blind curve and struck a northbound pickup truck headon. A passenger in the pickup truck was killed; both drivers and a second passenger in the pickup were injured. The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was: (1) The loss of truck braking capability because the brakes were out of adjustment and (2) the southbound truckdriver's poor judgment in steering into the northbound lanes at a blind curve and into the path of the pickup truck. Contributing to the cause of the accident was an inadequate, preventive maintenance program by the carrier.
Highway Accident Report - Kohler Company Tractor-Semitrailer/Pickup Truck Collision, NC. Route 226, Near Marion, North Carolina, January 25, 1978
1978
24 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Transportation Safety , Road Transportation , Motor vehicle accidents , Accident investigations , Semitrailers , Trucks , Cargo transportation , Feldspars , Slopes , Brakes(Motion arresters) , Collisions , Motor vehicle operators , Judgment , Maintenance , North Carolina , North Carolina route 226 , Marion(North Carolina)