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.


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    Titel :

    Highway Accident Report - Kohler Company Tractor-Semitrailer/Pickup Truck Collision, NC. Route 226, Near Marion, North Carolina, January 25, 1978


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1978


    Format / Umfang :

    24 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch