Tracy Morgan’s vehicle crash was caused by driver fatigue, the National

The National Transportation Safety Board has determined that driver fatigue probably caused the June 2014 crash that left comedian-actor Tracy Morgan seriously injured and another man dead.

Had Roper been traveling the posted speed limit of 45 miles per hour rather than 65 miles per hour, and had he braked at the same point, the crash wouldn’t have happened, an investigator told the board.

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They must now live within 250 miles of where they work or arrive 9 hours in advance of their shifts so they can get adequate rest, according to the company’s website. It is also in the process of implementing a comprehensive fatigue management plan that takes into account drivers’ commutes. Three other passengers in the limo suffered serious injuries.

Wal-Mart settled lawsuits filed by both Mcnair’s family and Morgan in connection to the crash. NTSB board member Robert Sumwalt said a cosmetologist in New Jersey has to have more training than an emergency worker.

The truck was traveling in the middle lane behind Morgan’s SUV, but the driver did not notice the slow traffic ahead and struck it from behind, causing the Limo to strike other vehicles and flip over.

Among its nine recommendations, the NTSB called on Walmart to finish implementing the program, and it wants the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to require such measures nationwide, NTSB Chairman Christopher Hart said in his closing statement Tuesday.

The NTSB also released computer simulation of the crash from different angles showing the vehicles involved in the accident. “Not only are we disputing it, it is factually wrong”, he said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.

“The passengers … had no available exits until emergency responders removed part of a plywood panel that had been installed between the passenger compartment and the cab”, Hart said at a meeting in Washington, as Reuters reported.

Hart added that the limousine’s passengers had not been properly brief on the safety features of the vehicle and were not wearing seat belts.

Roper was charged last year with vehicular homicide and assault by automobile.

Earlier this summer, Morgan said he is still haunted by the death of his “comrade in comedy” James “Jimmy Mack” McNair, who died after a tractor-trailer smashed into the limousine he and Morgan were riding in in June 2014.

Roper still faces criminal charges from the matter, to which he has pleaded not guilty.

Calls to Morgan’s Los Angeles-based representatives weren’t instantly returned on Tuesday, however in a with Matt Lauer on “At the moment”, the comic vowed to return to work once more in the future.