The report also cited Morgan and his passengers’ decision not to wear seatbelts as a contributing factor in the severity of their injuries, according to The AP.
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The NTSB released the probable cause and made nine new safety recommendations after a Tuesday morning board meeting in Washington, finishing months of investigation. Traveling 65 miles per hour in…
The truck’s impact set off a chain reaction involving six vehicles.
The Wal-Mart driver, Kevin Roper, missed numerous cues indicating that cars were slowed ahead and the speed limit was lowered, according to investigators. “This driver had been on duty 13½ hours of a 14-hour workday, but had been awake more than 28 hours at the time of the crash”. Discriminating occasion reports, which are created by a truck’s PCs and downloaded by Wal-Bazaar, record things like hard-braking, initiation of the vehicle’s strength control framework or different occasions that may show risky driving. It did not slow down when entering a road construction zone where it rear-ended the slower-traveling limousine van at around 1:00 a.m. ET, the NTSB said.
The board said Roper declined to speak to its investigators.
Roper’s attorney, David Glassman, insisted his client had not gone without sleep for 28 hours. “Not only are we disputing it, it is factually wrong”, he said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.
“Strong hours-of-service rules are important, but they can not govern what employees do on their own time”, Hart said.
Wal-Mart said it has high standards for its drivers and provides them with yearly safety training.
The wellbeing board has since quite a while ago raised worries about administrator weakness prompting mishaps over all methods of transportation, from aircraft pilots to prepare engineers. A sheet of plywood that had been added to the limo to separate the cab from passengers blocked occupants from escaping the vehicle through the front doors after the crash. They were also critical of the emergency response to the crash.
New Jersey has no minimum requirement for emergency responder training and certification, Barth said.
Earlier this summer, Morgan said he is still haunted by the death of his “comrade in comedy” James “Jimmy Mack” McNair, who died after a tractor-trailer smashed into the limousine he and Morgan were riding in in June 2014. Morgan, who remained in a coma for two weeks, suffered head trauma, a broken leg and broken ribs, and three other limo passengers were injured.
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Morgan, a former “Saturday Night Live” and “30 Rock” star, and the others were returning from a performance in Dover, Delaware.
