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Tanker Truck Involved In Deadly Crash On Interstate, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center
Tanker Truck Involved In Deadly Crash On Interstate, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center
Fatality Case Reports--Motor Vehicle
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 …
Grain Truck Driver Killed At Train Crossing, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center
Grain Truck Driver Killed At Train Crossing, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center
Fatality Case Reports--Motor Vehicle
On a clear fall Wednesday afternoon, at 3:45 p.m., a 69 year-old driver of a semi-trailer loaded with soybeans was killed when he turned off a two lane state highway and into a farm driveway, directly into the path of an oncoming freight train. The train and truck were both travelling west on parallel pathways; the truck driver was struck on the blind spot of his cab’s passenger side by the train. The truck driver was not wearing his seatbelt and was ejected from the cab. The train finally came to a stop at the next intersection, approximately a half …