• Home
  • News
    • Politics / Govt
    • Legislature
    • Crime / Courts
    • Health / Medicine
    • Archives
  • Sports
    • Badgers
    • Packers
      • Titletown Report
    • Brewers
  • Contact Us
    • Reporters
  • Affiliates
    • Affiliate Support

Wisconsin Radio Network

Wisconsin News and Sports

You are here: Home / News / Fatigue a factor in fatal bus crash

Fatigue a factor in fatal bus crash

September 16, 2008 By WRN Contributor

Three years after a deadly Chippewa Falls High School marching band bus crash , the National Transportation Safety Board announced its conclusions Tuesday.

Five people, including the band's director were killed when the bus hit an overturned semi lying across I-94 near Osseo in the early morning hours of October 16, 2005.

At a meeting of the NTSB in Washington D.C., acting Chair Mark Rosenker read the board's findings, saying the probable cause of the accident was the truck driver falling asleep and losing control of his semi. The report says the truck driver was likely fatigued because he didn't take full advantage of the rest time offered while he was off duty. The report says there were also "insufficient visual cues" to alert the bus driver to the presence of the overturned semi on the highway.

Truck driver Michael Kozlowski was found innocent of criminal charges last year, but there are several civil lawsuits pending.

The board also made recommendations to prevent such accidents in the future, including installing technology in trucks to detect when drivers are falling asleep.

AUDIO: Dan Lea reports (MP3 :50)

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Filed Under: News



Featured Stories

Pro-life groups condemn Kahl lawsuit to overturn 1849 abortion ban

Wisconsin politicians react as SCOTUS overturns Roe v. Wade

Republicans gavel in and out of special session to overturn Wisconsin’s abortion law

Juneteenth flag raised at Wisconsin Capitol

Gableman invokes 5th amendment, elections probe found in contempt in open records case

TwitterFacebook

Sports Headlines

Giannis breaks franchise scoring record, Bucks beat Nets in OT

Wisconsin’s Davis declares for NBA Draft

Badgers to face Arizona State in Las Vegas Bowl

Williams likely out for the season with broken hand

Packers releasing TE Jace Sternberger

More Sports

Tweets by @WRN

Get our news delivered to your inbox:

Enter your email address:

Delivered by FeedBurner

Copyright © 2022 · Learfield News & Ag, LLC