Tulsa World
By JIM MYERS World Washington Bureau
Published: 9/28/201010:11 AM
Last Modified: 9/28/20102:35 PM
Read the Nation Transportation Safety Board's report HERE
WASHINGTON -- Driver fatigue was a probable cause in a 2009 Interstate 44 pileup near Miami that claimed 10 lives in one of the deadliest road crashes in Oklahoma history, the National Transportation Safety Board stated Tuesday.
The board blamed truck driver Donald Leroy Creed's fatigue on a combination of acute sleep loss, his shift work schedule and mild sleep apnea.
It also approved several recommendations, including those requiring all motor carriers to adopt a fatigue management program, all heavy commercial vehicles to be equipped with video event recorders and the use of data recorders on large trucks.
On June 26, 2009, truck driver Donald Leroy Creed was driving a tractor-trailer rig that crashed into several other vehicles that had slowed down because of an earlier, minor accident... FULL ARTICLE
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