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Traffic Safety Coalition * USA - Looks to reduce truck-car crashes
Walker,MI,USA -The Grand Rapids Press (Grand Rapids,MI), by John Tunison -June 28, 2007: -- In his 20 years on the road, semitrailer driver Tim VanHouten has seen just about everything from fellow travelers... Cars cutting him off, riding in his blind spots, crowding into the space he needs to make a wide turn... VanHouten joined police, trucking company leaders and others Wednesday at the DeltaPlex Entertainment and Expo Center parking lot in an effort to improve road safety, partly by making other drivers aware of driving challenges that truckers face every day... The West Michigan Traffic Safety Committee -- a coalition of police, road engineers, school officials and trucking companies -- released statistics it hopes truckers can use to possibly prevent crashes... The committee identified stretches of road in Kent, Ottawa and Allegan counties that have higher crash rates than other roads, listed daily time frames when most crashes occur and issued statistics on distracted and fatigued drivers... Cars usually at fault: In Kent County, cars were responsible 56 percent of the time compared to 41 percent for trucks, with 3 percent undetermined... In Ottawa County, the figures showed a fault rate of 56 percent for cars and 44 percent trucks. In Allegan, it was 52 percent cars, 37 percent trucks and 11 percent undetermined... Drivers who were distracted or fatigued accounted for 16 percent of truck crashes in Kent and Ottawa counties, but jumped to 36 percent in Allegan...
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