Honorable John H. Hill Administrator Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration 1200 New Jersey Avenue, S.E. Suite W60-300 Washington, D.C. 20590

摘要

On Friday, July 16, 2004, about 12:00 p.m., a 1999 Sterling tractor towing a 1997 Great Dane semitrailer was part of a traffic queue moving slowly1 east on Interstate 94 (1-94), behind a 2004 Saturn station wagon approaching the Fletcher Road overpass near Chelsea, Michigan. The queue had formed following an earlier accident in the eastbound lanes of a highway maintenance zone. At the same time, a 2000 Kenworth tractor towing a 2000 Hyundai semitrailer, owned by Equity Transportation Company, Inc. (Equity), was traveling behind the queue on 1-94, approaching the Fletcher Road overpass at a witness-estimated speed of 60 mph.