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Coal Truck Driver Fatally Injured In Collision With Another Coal Tractor-Trailer, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center
Coal Truck Driver Fatally Injured In Collision With Another Coal Tractor-Trailer, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center
Fatality Case Reports--Motor Vehicle
During the winter of 2008, a 39 –year-old tractor-trailer driver died after striking the right rear of a coal tractor-trailer with his vehicle, then veering into an embankment, rolling over and catching fire. The driver of a coal tractor-trailer (Truck 1) and the decedent driver of a second coal tractor-trailer (Truck 2) had descended a hill in the lane next to one another on a four-lane undivided highway. Truck 1 stopped at a traffic light at an intersection at the bottom of a hill while Truck 2 approached the intersection from behind in the left lane. The light turned green …