Truck Driver Cited in Tennessee Horse Trailer Incident
- Topics: Article, Trailers & Trailer Safety
A Kentucky man is facing multiple charges after the trailer he was using to haul horses from Tennessee to Texas collapsed just outside of Nashville, Tenn., last week.
Tennessee Highway Patrol Public Information Officer Kevin Crawford said that at 12:15 p.m. on June 12, Scott York of Smiths Grove, Ky., was traveling on Interstate 440 transporting 37 horses from Three Angels Farm in Lebanon, Tenn., to a Texas location when the floor of the trailer containing the animals collapsed. One horse was humanely euthanized at the scene, he said. The surviving 36 were loaded onto another trailer and transported back to Lebanon, Crawford said.
York was later charged with operating a commercial vehicle without a commercial driver license, no commercial tag, log book violation, brake violation, defective tire, and unsafe operations, Crawford said. All the charges are misdemeanors.
York was unavailable for comment
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