The Florida Highway Patrol has determined that driver distraction was responsible for a multi-car accident on October 29 on I-95 in Delray Beach. Four people were injured in the accident, which involved a semi-truck.
Three vehicles were involved in the car-truck accident. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, all three vehicles were headed southbound on Interstate 95 at shortly after 6 a.m. on the morning of Friday, October 29.
As the two cars, the semi-truck and surrounding traffic approached the Linton Boulevard exit from I-95, the driver of a passenger car in the center lane apparently was not paying attention and failed to notice that the traffic ahead had slowed down.
The driver swerved left to avoid the slowed traffic, then realized that doing so would take the car out of its proper lane. That driver then overcorrected by jerking the steering wheel to the right. The driver then lost control of the vehicle.
The right side of the distracted driver’s car struck the left side of a second passenger car. The first car then spun out of control, collided with a nearby semi tractor-trailer and ultimately struck the concrete median that divides the northbound and southbound lanes of the Interstate.
CBS 12 News did not give any information about what the driver had been doing that caused the distraction.
Three people in the distracted driver’s car were injured. One was reported to be in critical condition and the other two in serious condition on Friday, according to CBS 12 News of West Palm Beach. One person from the second car was reported to have minor injuries, but all four had to be transported to local hospitals after the truck accident.
The driver of the truck was not injured in the multi-vehicle collision.
Source: CBS 12 News, West Palm Beach, “FHP UPDATE: I-95 wreck in Delray caused by inattentive driver,” October 29, 2010
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