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Safety - USA - Highways getting safer for trucks
And ... Nobody died !!Oakland,CA,USA -Inside Bay Area, by Sean Holstege -17 Dec 2005: -- A national trend will be reported in data to be released by the federal government next week. It will show that 2004 was the safest year on record, measured by the number of fatal truck crashes and the volume of traffic... The rate was 1.96 fatal crashes involving trucks for every 100 million miles driven by U.S. motorists on the nation's highway system. The deadly crash rate is half what itwas until the mid-1980s, and down 2.5 percent from 2003... That doesn't mean truckers are blameless. When the CHP finds them at fault, three times in eight, the trucker was speeding, according to state crash data...
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