130-Vehicle Texas Crash: NTSB Finds Failure to De-Ice Road by Crews
On February 11, 2021, a catastrophic 130-vehicle pileup occurred on an icy highway in Fort Worth, Texas. The accident resulted in six fatalities and dozens of injuries. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recently released its preliminary findings on the cause of the crash, citing a failure to de-ice the road by maintenance crews as a contributing factor.According to the NTSB report, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) had been monitoring weather conditions and had begun pre-treating the roads with brine solution in anticipation of the winter storm. However, on