Fatal Three Tractor-Trailer Collision On I-65 North Of Nashville Claims Life Of Trucker
Tractor-Trailer Collision
Three wrecked tractor-trailers spread out all over I-65 with one driver fatally injured made for a messy road closure in Hart County Kentucky just North of Nashville. According to an article on the website of Radio Station WCLU in Glasgow Kentucky, heavy rains made the weather horrible and a Tractor-trailer driven by Floyd Frye, of Franklin Alabama, traveling in the Northbound lane was rammed from behind by another tractor-trailer driven by Sukri Haji, 27, of Nashville. Both trucks were disabled from the collision so that these two drivers could not pull to the shoulder of the road but rather, stopped in the right lane of traffic and got out of the trucks to survey the damages and try to direct traffic around their trucks.
According to the article that’s when another tractor-trailer driven by Manjitt Gill, 31, of Ontario, Canada and was unable to see the two stopped vehicles and crashed into them. The collision threw Mr. Gill through the windshield and the truck caught fire. Mr. Gill was pronounced dead at the scene. The other drivers were not injured. The cleanup took ten hours. My prayers go out to the friends and family of Mr. Gill and I’m thankful that the other truck drivers and other people at or near the scene didn’t suffer the same fate.
A number of things went wrong in this accident. First of all it was the weather, an all day heavy downpour that severally reduced visibility, coupled with an obvious failure to keep an eye on the traffic in front of Mr. Haji’s truck and then came the disablement of the two trucks with prevented them from pulling to the shoulder of the road and out of the lane of traffic. It would easy to second guess the actions of the two initial drivers, could one of them have been on the CB radio broadcasting a warning to oncoming traffic? Would that have made a difference? It’s impossible to say.
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