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The automobile pushed by six excessive school-aged ladies who died in a crash with a semitruck on Tuesday got here to a “rolling cease” at a cease signal earlier than getting into the freeway, witnesses stated, in accordance with a Thursday replace in an ongoing Nationwide Transportation Security Board investigation.
The women have been driving in a small passenger car when it collided with a semitruck at an intersection within the metropolis of Tishomingo, about 122 miles south of Oklahoma Metropolis.
There’s a cease signal regulating visitors at this intersection and the posted velocity restrict for the freeway is 50 mph. Witnesses stated the Chevy entered US-377 after making a “rolling cease” on the cease signal and was hit by the semitruck on the front-left, which pushed it off the roadway, in accordance with the replace.
The semitruck then veered off the highway and got here to cease in a non-public driveway off the freeway. The motive force of the truck was unhurt, the assertion stated.
The investigation is constant and the NTSB, in coordination with the Oklahoma Freeway Patrol, has despatched a workforce of 4 investigators and a household help specialist to Oklahoma to look into a number of points.
They are going to be evaluating freeway circumstances, like lighting and climate circumstances, in addition to accident histories on the web site and potential causes behind human error. They may also study the car’s compliance with federal and state laws.
Investigators will reconstruct the crash occasions and analyze bodily proof and car injury, the assertion stated.
The workforce’s on-scene work is predicted to conclude by Monday and a preliminary report is predicted late subsequent month. The complete investigation – which would come with possible trigger and any contributing components – will likely be accomplished within the subsequent yr or two.
”On behalf of our college students, workers, households, and group I need to thanks on your thoughtfulness, prayers and encouragement,” stated Bobby Waitman, Tishomingo Public Colleges superintendent, in a press release.
“As we start the method of damaged hearts, I’m reminded that our biggest precedence as educators is to fulfill the emotional, psychological, social and bodily wants of our college students. That is our focus presently – and day-after-day that we serve our college students,” Waitman’s assertion added.
