Saturday, March 27, 2010
I-65 Crash Investigation
KENTUCKY...
A National Transportation Safety Board official says the highway cable barriers that a tractor-trailer truck plowed through Friday, killing 11 people, aren't designed to withstand the force of a truck that size. NTSB Vice Chairman Christopher Hart is in Kentucky to help investigate the crash on Interstate 65 near Munfordville. He says that investigation will look at the barriers as well as the company that owned the truck, Hester Inc. of Fayette, Ala., and the driver. The driver, whose name hasn't been released, died as did a group of 10 Mennonites from south-central Kentucky who were traveling in a church van to a wedding in Iowa. Kentucky Transportation Department spokesman Mark Brown says the barriers are the strongest made and that no system exists to prevent a vehicle with the size and weight of a tractor-trailer from crossing them.
A National Transportation Safety Board official says the highway cable barriers that a tractor-trailer truck plowed through Friday, killing 11 people, aren't designed to withstand the force of a truck that size. NTSB Vice Chairman Christopher Hart is in Kentucky to help investigate the crash on Interstate 65 near Munfordville. He says that investigation will look at the barriers as well as the company that owned the truck, Hester Inc. of Fayette, Ala., and the driver. The driver, whose name hasn't been released, died as did a group of 10 Mennonites from south-central Kentucky who were traveling in a church van to a wedding in Iowa. Kentucky Transportation Department spokesman Mark Brown says the barriers are the strongest made and that no system exists to prevent a vehicle with the size and weight of a tractor-trailer from crossing them.
# posted by Homer Owens @ 5:36 AM 
