WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — The truck driver who drove into the back of a slow-moving party bus on Interstate 64 killing three people was fatigued and the company for which he drove “created fictitious driver accounts for its vehicles’ electronic logging device systems that allowed drivers to exceed federal hours-of-service regulations and drive while fatigued,” the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) found.
The December 2022 crash happened on Interstate 64 near Williamsburg.
“The bus was traveling at 20 to 25 miles per hour in the right lane, while the truck was traveling at 65 to 70 miles per hour with cruise control engaged,” NTSB investigators wrote in their recently-released report. “The truck driver did not brake or take any evasive action as the truck approached the bus. The collision caused the roof and sidewalls of the bus to detach, exposing the occupants. The bus then rotated, crossed the lane, and breached the guardrail. As a result, three bus occupants died, nine occupants and the truck driver sustained serious injuries, and 11 bus occupants sustained minor injuries.”