Fatigue, drug use caused multi-vehicle crash in Tenn.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has determined that a semitractor-trailer driver’s fatigue, methamphetamine use, and failure to respond to slow-moving traffic within a work zone resulted in the 2015 multi-vehicle crash near Chattanooga, Tennessee, in which six people died and four were injured.
A semitractor-trailer operated by Cool Runnings Express, Inc. was traveling northbound on Interstate 75 on June 25, 2015, as traffic slowed while entering a marked work-zone. The truck driver failed to slow with the traffic and instead collided at highway speed with the rear of a Toyota Prius, starting a crash sequence that ultimately involved seven other vehicles and a total of 18 people.