NTSB Abstract HAR-02/01

From: Subject: NTSB Abstract HAR-02/01 Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 14:16:55 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0000_01C2630B.DEF23300"; type="text/html" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0000_01C2630B.DEF23300 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Location: http://www.ntsb.gov/publictn/2002/HAR0201.htm NTSB Abstract HAR-02/01

Highway = Accident Report=20
Work Zone Collision Between
a Tractor-Semitrailer = and=20
a Tennessee Highway Patrol
Vehicle, Jackson, = Tennessee, July=20 26, 2000=20

NTSB Number NTSB/HAR-02/01
NTIS Number = PB2002-916201=20
PDF=20 Document(1MB)=20

Executive Summary: About 8:52 a.m. on July 26, 2000, an = eastbound 1999=20 International truck tractor pulling a loaded semitrailer, and traveling = at a=20 driver-estimated speed of 65 mph in a 55-mph work zone, collided with a=20 Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) vehicle trailing construction vehicles. = Witnesses=20 reported that the patrol car exploded and caught fire at impact. The = patrol car=20 was pushed approximately 192 feet before it came to rest in the median. = The=20 tractor-semitrailer continued through a 61-foot depressed earthen median = and=20 into the westbound lanes, where it collided with a 1997 Chevrolet = Blazer. The=20 tractor-semitrailer then continued across the travel lanes and came to = rest in a=20 wooded area on the north side of I-40. The State trooper in the THP = vehicle was=20 killed, and the Chevrolet driver was seriously injured.=20

The following major safety issues were identified in this accident:=20
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Lack of communication between the Tennessee Department of = Transportation,=20 its contractors, and the Tennessee Highway Patrol.=20
Inadequate planning and coordinating of traffic control = responsibilities=20 between highway construction personnel and law enforcement officers = before=20 engaging in work zone activities.=20
Need to train officers in safe traffic control procedures within = highway=20 work zones.

As a result of this accident investigation, the = Safety=20 Board makes recommendations to the Federal Highway Administration, the = National=20 Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the Tennessee Department of=20 Transportation, the National Sheriffs=92 Association, the International=20 Association of Chiefs of Police, and the American Association of State = Highway=20 and Transportation Officials.

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