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About
1:19 p.m. on June 26, 2009, a multivehicle accident occurred on Interstate 44
(I-44) near Miami, Oklahoma, shortly after a minor accident in
the vicinity had resulted in a traffic queue. A truck driver operating a Volvo
truck-tractor in combination with an empty semitrailer was traveling eastbound
in the outside lane of I-44. He did not react to the queue of slowing and
stopped vehicles ahead and collided with the rear of a Land Rover sport utility
vehicle (SUV).
As both vehicles moved forward, the Land Rover struck a Hyundai
Sonata and then departed the right lane and shoulder. The Volvo continued
forward, struck and overrode the Hyundai Sonata, struck and overrode a Kia
Spectra, and then struck the rear of a Ford Windstar minivan. The Volvo
overrode a portion of the Windstar while pushing it into the rear of a trailer
being towed by a Ford F350 pickup truck. The pickup was pushed into a Chevrolet
Tahoe SUV. As a result of the accident, 10 passenger vehicle occupants died, 5
received minor-to-serious injuries, and the Volvo combination unit driver was
seriously injured.
The major safety issues identified were the accident truck
driver’s fatigue, the need for updated and comprehensive fatigue education
materials and fatigue management programs, the significance of heavy vehicle
aggressivity in collisions between dissimilar vehicles, the lack of Federal
requirements for heavy commercial vehicle event data recorders and video event
recorders, and the lack of Federal requirements for forward collision warning
systems
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