Our recurring theme about the relationship between tire safety and hydroplaning accidents got another fatal example early this morning, when an Oklahoma woman was killed after a pickup truck hydroplaned into the vehicle in which she was driving. For the complete story, click here.
A three-car accident during a heavy rain killed a Claremore woman early Sunday, Tulsa police said.
Heather R. Good, 27, died in the pileup near 1700 S. U.S. 169 after a Chrysler Sebring in which she was a passenger crashed into a Chevy pickup that had hydroplaned on the slick highway, said Tulsa Police Capt. Karen Tipler.
It is critical to evaluate whether the truck that hydroplaned had its better tires on the front, instead of where they should have been, on the back. See http://fishtail.tv
Making the risk factors of an accident worse, the driver of the pickup truck had apparently been drinking, before the 3:30 a.m. accident. Three deadly risks all combined: hydroplaning, drinking and fatigue. See http://semi-accident.com/fatigue.html