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TROUBLED TRUCKERS * USA: Tracy Morgan crash update -- ** Saudi Arabia: Destroyued a road sign
* DC / USA - NTSB blames truck operator’s lack of sleep, creates animation of crash scene
(Video from NTSBgov - Aug 11, 2015: Description/Disclaimer for Board Meeting Animation)
-- The root cause of the fatal June 2014 crash involving a Walmart tractor-trailer and actor/comedian Tracy Morgan was a tired truck operator, the National Transportation Safety Board has concluded. The NTSB released the results of its year-long investigation Aug. 11, which mostly is a reiteration of the board’s preliminary investigation findings released last year... Truck driver Kevin Roper, who has been charged with vehicular homicide in the case, had slept just four hours in the 33 hours preceding the crash. He had been awake in excess of 28 hours during that 33-hour period, the NTSB said... The crash, which left Morgan and others severely injured and comedian James McNair dead, sparked a firestorm of debate over truck operators’ hours-of-service limits last summer and nearly derailed attempts by Congress to rollback some 2013-implemented rules governing the use of a driver’s 34-hour restart...
Washington, DC, USA - CCDJ Digital, by James Jaillet - August 11, 2015
** Rihad / SA - Dump truck driver crashes into highway sign at full speed in
(Video by Mohamed Qutteineh - Aug 16, 2015)
-- A hapless dump truck driver destroyed a Saudi road sign when he plowed into it at highway speeds with the bed fully raised... Please make sure your arms, legs, and... dump truck beds are secured inside the vehicle at all times... Nobody was injured in the wreckage, and as far as we know, the only damage other than the road sign will be to the driver's wallet...
Rihad, Saudi Arabia - The New York Daily News (USA), by Brian Leon - August 17, 2015
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