Federal traffic investigators report that unsafe driving speeds of multiple vehicles, combined with wet road conditions and low visibility, was the probable cause of a fiery 2021 interstate crash in Alabama that killed nine children and one adult.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Federal traffic investigators said Thursday that unsafe driving speeds of multiple vehicles on wet roads in low visibility was the probable cause of a fiery 2021The National Transportation Safety Board released aabout the June 19, 2021 crash that involved 10 passenger vehicles and two commercial trucks on Interstate 65. The report described a horrific chain of events as the trucks and an SUV slammed into cars that had slowed because of minor crashes on the rain-slick highway.
A post crash fire — likely started after a fuel tank on one of the commercial vehicles ruptured during the crash — consumed six vehicles and contributed to the fatal injuries of the eight children in a transit van, investigators said. The van was from a group home for abused or neglected children and was returning from a beach trip. The van was in a queue of cars that had slowed or stopped because of earlier crashes, when a chain reaction occurred as three “striking vehicles” — identified as a Freightliner truck, an auto-transporter and a Ford Explorer — “came upon the traffic queue and struck vehicles in the queue.”
Many of the data recorders were destroyed in the fire, making it difficult to know the speed of the vehicles. The report did not give the Freightliner's estimated speed but said the driver estimated that he had been traveling at 60 mph before braking. The Ford Explorer had been traveling at 81.5 mph five seconds before impact.
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