Four die after trucker fails to brake for stopped traffic
A National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) preliminary report on a fatal multi-vehicle accident in Boise, Idaho on June 16, 2018, shows how quickly things can spiral out of control in highway work zones.
Although the NTSB hasn’t named a probable cause for the incident, the timeline it has reconstructed shows that a truck driver’s failure to stop for traffic bottlenecked by road work led to a series of collisions and fires that killed four people, injured two others and damaged five vehicles.