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Tragedy on I-16: Five Georgia Southern Nursing Students Killed in Preventable Trucking Disaster A Catastrophic Chain Reaction That Should Never Have Happened The morning of February 22, 2026, began like any other for five promising young women from Georgia Southern University. Emily Clark, Morgan Bass, Abbie Deloach, Catherine (McKay) Pittman, and Caitlyn Baggett—all junior nursing students—were commuting to St. Joseph’s Hospital in Savannah for their final clinical training day of the school year. Their futures in healthcare were bright, their dedication to healing others unwavering. By 5:45 a.m., their lives had been violently cut short. In a devastating seven-vehicle pileup on eastbound Interstate 16 near mile marker 140 in Bryan County, Georgia, these five students were killed when a tractor-trailer plowed into stopped traffic. Two other students, Brittney McDaniel and Megan Richards, survived with serious injuries. The accident scene was so horrific that Bryan County Sheriff Clyde Smith called it “one of the worst wrecks” he’d seen in his 21-year career. This wasn’t just a tragic accident—it was a preventable disaster caused by a cascade of failures in the trucking industry. At Attorney911, we’ve spent 25+ years holding trucking companies accountable for exactly this type of negligence. What happened on I-16 that morning reveals systemic problems that put every driver at risk—including those on Bryan, Bryan County, Texas’s highways. The Incident: A Timeline of Failure The First Crash: A Warning Ignored The tragedy began hours earlier, around 2 a.m., when an initial collision occurred between a tractor-trailer and an RV.…