February 17, 2014, on a cloudy Monday, around 4:40 p.m., a 40 year-old male tanker truck driver (victim) was driving down a straight level 3-lane interstate headed north bound to a neighboring state going approximately 70 m.p.h., to deliver his 45,000 lbs. of liquid sodium sulfate when he came upon a slow moving vehicle in the right lane, the victim swerved to the left to avoid the vehicle and his 2001 Kenworth tractor trailer left the road. The victim then overcorrected and his semi flipped landing on its top in the right side of the roadway in a grassy area with a rock cut ditch.
Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Report for Kentucky: Tanker Truck Involved in Deadly Crash on Interstate, FACE-14-KY-007
2014
9 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
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