WILLIAMSBURG – The National Transportation Safety Board will take a look at the deadly crash on I-35 in Osage County that killed five family members from Minnesota Sunday. Kansas City television station KMBC Channel 9 reported that the NTSB’s review will include those laws that might have allowed a 17-year-old to drive the converted 57,000-pound Freightliner box truck involved in the crash. Adam Kerber, 17, Jordan, Minne., was driving the truck when it and the trailer it was pulling went over a bridge railing and plunged into a creek just southwest of Williamsburg. The NTSB’s Peter Knudson told channel 9 his agency wants to determine whether the driver was legally able to drive such a large vehicle and whether laws and licensing requirements could have been a factor in the accident. The crash happened Sunday morning as a large extended family and friends returned from an annual motocross vacation in Texas. Five people were killed. Thirteen others were injured. Most of the dead and injured were children and teenagers. Adam Kerber and his mother, Pauline Kerber, 48, remain in Overland Park Regional Hospital in critical condition. As of Tuesday, five injury victims had been released from area hospitals.
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