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Catastrophic I-16 Multi-Truck Pileup: Attorney911 Analysis of the Bryan County Tragedy The impact occurred at 5:45 a.m. It was a clear morning in Bryan County, Georgia, on eastbound Interstate 16. There was no fog, no smoke, and no weather-related excuses. Yet, in an instant, an 80,000-pound tractor-trailer plowed into stopped traffic near mile marker 140. The results were incomprehensible: five junior nursing students from Georgia Southern University were killed, and two others were seriously injured in a seven-vehicle disaster. At Attorney911, we have spent over 27 years litigating the most complex commercial vehicle wrecks in the country. When we see a tragedy like this—where young lives like Emily Clark, Morgan Bass, Abbie Deloach, Catherine Pittman, and Caitlyn Baggett are cut short—we don’t just see an “accident.” We see a catastrophic failure of safety systems, corporate oversight, and driver responsibility. The tractor-trailer didn’t just hit a car. It plowed into an SUV, rolled over a small passenger car until it burst into flames, and only stopped after slamming into the back of a tanker truck. This was a high-energy, high-mass collision that demonstrates the “97/3 Rule” we often cite: in crashes between a passenger vehicle and a large truck, 97% of…