IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE MULTIPURPOSE VEHICLE. T. R. PRODUCE COMPANY TRUCK COLLISION, NEAR EL CENTRO, CALIFORNIA, MARCH 8, 1974

The report analyzes a collision of a multipurpose vehicle (MPV) with a parked tractor-semitrailer. The MPV, operated by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, was transporting 18 Mexican nationals. The MPV driver and 12 of the nationals received fatal injuries; the 6 surviving nationals received minor to severe injuries. The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this collision was that the MPV left the roadway and collided with a tractor-trailer parked approximately 15 feet off of the pavement. The MPV left the roadway because it was not under the control of the driver for reasons unknown.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Highway Accident Report.
• Corporate Authors:

  National Transportation Safety Board

  Office of Surface Transportation Safety
  Washington, DC  United States  20594
• Publication Date: 1975-9-4

Media Info

• Pagination: 30 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Casualties; Crash injury research; Crash investigation; Crashes; Fatalities; Research; Tractor trailer combinations; Traffic crashes; Trailers; Truck tractors
• Uncontrolled Terms: Motor vehicle accidents
• Geographic Terms: California
• Subject Areas: Highways; Motor Carriers; Research; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00093538
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: NTSB-HAR-75-6
• Files: NTIS, TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 21 1976 12:00AM