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Two Semis Collide - Fire Ensues; Both Drivers Perish, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center
Two Semis Collide - Fire Ensues; Both Drivers Perish, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center
Fatality Case Reports--Motor Vehicle
One summer’s night, a 49 year-old semi-truck driver (D1), pulling a flatbed loaded with salvage cars for recycling traveled north on a three-lane state highway. D1 topped a hill, drove through a right curve when the unit rolled onto the driver’s side, slide across the center line and entered a straight stretch approximately half way to the bottom of a hill. As D1’s unit was sliding down the hill in the south bound lanes, a 52 year-old semi-truck driver (D2) hauling bottled beverages was traveling south in the straight stretch up the hill. As D1 slide down the hill, D2 …
Solid Waste Driver Dies After Single Vehicle Rollover, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center
Solid Waste Driver Dies After Single Vehicle Rollover, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center
Fatality Case Reports--Motor Vehicle
On the morning of a fall day in 2008, a 59 year-old male solid waste worker (Driver 1) entered the cab of a company solid waste truck parked in his driveway and drove to a restaurant a few miles away. After leaving the restaurant, the driver was observed weaving by another solid waste driver (Driver 2) at least two times in the northbound lane of a two-lane state highway. After he had driven 1.8 miles in a little over 2 minutes away from the restaurant, the driver entered a right-hand curve in the highway. While in the curve, the driver …