Steve Camlin

Review of Ryder Dedicated Transportation...

This companies truck driver narrowly missed over 1...

This companies truck driver narrowly missed over 16 Firemen, EMS and LEO personnel at a motor vehicle crash.
On October 24, 2019 at approximately 11:45 pm, our 4 lane divided highway was marked and had emergency lights operating, cones out, portable speed bumps out, making the speed thru this zone around 5 mph. With one lane open on the west bound, outside lane, of a 3 car head on collision. With no traffic in that lane at that moment, a driver for Dedicated Transportation Solutions came through the wreck scene, ran over our portable speed bumps, blew over cones with speeds greater than 55 mph missing these personnel and family members, some by as few as 4 feet. The scene was loaded with 16 Firemen, EMT's and 6 Sheriff Deputies, NC Highway Patrolmen and 1 nearby town Policeman. This total does not include the parents of the victims who responded in terror about their children, only to get a vision of what we deal with daily on our wreck scenes. Within 1 minute, 2 law enforcement officers went after the subject and caught him about 2 miles from the scene. When confronted, he stated that he thought it was a construction zone. His license said he was from Georgia. When asked, "Does Georgia have construction zones with blue and red lights?", he replied "I thought it was a zone". Clearly, this driver was distracted, sleepy and also operating a truck with a severe air leak as it was heard while he was stopped by LEO.
There could have been numerous deaths that night, because of this persons ignorance. Clearly the company needs to do some policing. Only by the grace of GOD, no doubt and give HIM credit, were we spared that night from death and injury.

This will be recorded in the national system, recording near miss line of duty accidents/deaths for fire/ems/rescue workers.
We did contact the safety manager of this company and he stated he was narrowing down the driver and they would take action on this incident.
Steve Camlin, Fire Chief
Acme-Delco-Riegelwood Fire-Rescue, Inc.
Riegelwood, NC 28456