WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Transportation Safety Board today released its final report on the July 2023 Greyhound bus crash on I-70 near Highland, Illinois, which left three passengers dead and more than a dozen injured. U.S. Representative Mike Bost (IL-12) highlighted the federal investigators’ determination that a severe shortage in accessible truck parking contributed to the collision with a tractor trailer parked on the side of an offramp.

“I grew up in a family trucking business and have been shouting from the rooftops for years about America’s dangerous shortage of truck parking spaces,” said Bost. “When exhausted truckers are forced to choose between pushing that extra mile to find safe parking or pull over on the shoulder of busy interstates and offramps, you’ve got a recipe for disaster. That’s exactly what we witnessed here in Southern Illinois. I am hopeful the NTSB’s final report on the Highland crash will help provide additional momentum in Congress to pass my legislation to expand safe, accessible parking options for big trucks nationwide.”

Bost’s Truck Parking Safety Improvement Act would provide competitive funding through the U.S. Department of Transportation for the construction of new commercial truck parking facilities. The legislation was approved by the House Transportation Committee last Congress but did not receive a vote in the full House. Bost reintroduced the bill this year in hopes of it being incorporated in the Surface Transportation Reauthorization bill the House will consider later this year.

A summary of the NTSB report can be found here.