About 2:40 p.m., c.d.t., on October 12, 1981, a truck tractor-pole semitrailer, laden with 16 75- to 80-foot pine logs was southbound on U.S. Route 45, about 1 mile south of Waynesboro, Mississippi. A schoolbus occupied by the driver and 49 students was also southbound following behind the truck. As the truck approached the Industrial Park Road, it moved into a right turn lane, decelerated, and initiated a 125 degree right turn. The overlength logs swung leftward across the southbound through-traffic lane and into the path of the overtaking schoolbus. The schoolbus struck the swinging logs, traveled forward to the right, struck the extreme front end of an eastbound automobile, which was stopped on Industrial Park Road at the intersection, and then struck and overrode a utility pole in the southwest quadrant of the intersection. Three bus passengers were killed, and 18 bus passengers and the driver were injured. The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the accident was the log truckdriver's failure to ascertain that the area near the rear of his truck was clear before turning and the busdriver's incomplete attention to the driving task.
Highway Accident Report - Herman Duvall Tractor-Pole Semitrailer/S.L. and B Academy, Inc., Schoolbus Collision, U.S. Route 45, Near Waynesboro, Mississippi, October 12, 1981
1982
34 pages
Report
No indication
English
Transportation Safety , Road Transportation , Motor vehicle accidents , Accident investigations , Truck tractors , Semitrailers , Wood logs , Buses(Vehicles) , Penetration , Students , Casualties , Injuries , Collisions , Attention , Motor vehicle operators , Mississippi , US highway 45 , Waynesboro(Mississippi) , School bus accidents , Truck accidents , Right turn lanes , Right turns , Overtaking , Human factors