In the early morning hours of a spring day around 5:45 a.m., a 55-year-old male truck driver was driving south on an interstate transporting sheet metal. It is unknown how long he had been driving when he exited from the highway, traveled partially up the ramp, and struck the left side guard rail. The truck left the road, traveled down an embankment and overturned onto its roof. A passing motorist called emergency medical services. The driver was extricated by mechanical means and declared dead at the scene.
Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Report for Kentucky: Truck Driver Dies When Tractor-Trailer Overturns After Leaving Road, FACE-12-KY-011
2013
6 pages
Report
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English
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