The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has shut down the company whose truck was involved in a March 26 accident that left 11 people dead in Kentucky.

The FMCSA placed Hester Inc. out-of-service on June 5, revoked the company’s DOT registration and required it to immediately cease interstate and intrastate transportation operations.

The order resulted from a compliance review of the Fayette, Ala., company, completed on April 5, which revealed serious violations of the agency’s rules and hazardous materials regulations. At that review, Hester was given a proposed unsatisfactory safety rating and allowed 60 days to improve its rating to conditional or satisfactory.

The agency also issued $13,950 in fines against the company for violating federal motor carrier safety regulations, said Candice Tolliver, FMCSA communications director. 

The accident occurred when the 76,660-pound tractor-trailer crossed the Interstate 65 median and struck a 15-passenger van. The 1999 Freightliner hit the 2000 Dodge van, killing the trucker and fatally wounding all but two of the van passengers. 

In a May 14 accident update, the NTSB said the trucker had left Lansing, Mich., about 4 p.m. the previous day and was headed to Cullman, Ala. Investigators said they would try to determine if the driver had violated hours-of-service rules, as the logbook was destroyed in a post-crash fire.