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Cleration - USA - Cars, not trucks, usually culprits in collisions
We will continue to do our share of spreading the word, promoting trucking and highway safety - By J. RICHARDS TODD, President SC Trucking Association
Columbia,S.Caroline,USA -The State -Nov. 21, 2005: -- As happens every so often, the recent tragic hayride/truck collision generated a story on truck safety, enforcement and collision statistics... Your reporters did a fair job with the articles, but you let them (and your readers) down with the misleading and inaccurate headline: “Big-rig crashes jump 39 percent in S.C.”... It is fair to assume that practically all your readers consider and describe the largest tractor-trailers as “big rigs.” This vehicle class actually experienced a 17 percent increase in collisions over the four-year reporting period, not 39 percent as you headlined. You have to combine all of the “commercial vehicle” classes to get a 39 percent increase, meaning that the small- and medium-duty trucks did a poorer job than did the “big rigs.”... Admittedly, there are still a few cowboys out there, but car drivers have a shared responsibility to do a better job around trucks. We ask drivers not to linger alongside a truck, cut in front of one and then slow down or try to fill the space in front of it on a crowded, high-speed interstate...
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