Campbell County, TN — Superior Battery Mfg. Co. recently made a statement about Tim Holt, asking all who knew him to keep his family in their thoughts. Holt was a truck driver who was killed in a tractor trailer accident in Campbell County, Tennessee, on Wednesday, August 27, 2014. The accident took place on Interstate 75, near mile marker 133.
According to reports, Holt was driving a tractor trailer carrying a load of batteries when it drove through the highway’s cable rail and crashed into an oncoming SUV, as well as another tractor trailer carrying a load of oxidizers. The force of the collision caused both trailers to catch on fire. Because the trailer’s hazardous materials placards shifted in the accident, there was some uncertainty as to whether the truck was carrying radioactive material, and a hazmat team was called in to asses the threat.
The cause of the accident is still being investigated. A representative of the Tennessee Department of Transportation said that even if the highway’s cable barrier had been replaced with concrete, he didn’t believe it would have stopped the accident. “If you put a guardrail there or if you put a concrete barrier wall, the odds are nothing would have been able to stop that tractor trailer.
Scene of the Accident
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