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SAFETY * USA - Heavy hitters - Why not make speeding fines for trucks proportional to their weight?
Fredericksburg,VA,USA -The Free Lance-Star -20 July 2008: -- ... The heavier the vehicle and/or the faster it's going, the more momentum it has, and, therefore, the more damage it does when an accident occurs. That's why big trucks ought to carry more weight when it comes to fines for speeding... Unsafe speed is a factor in a third of all highway crashes. To be fair, when a truck is the "core cause" of an accident, traveling too fast is found to be the "critical precrash event" just 18 percent of the time. However, when an 80,000-lb. semi collides with a 3,000-lb. Toyota Prius, it's clear which vehicle is going to take the hit... In fact, 5,000 people die and 130,000 are injured every year in truck accidents. When big rigs and cars clash, 98 percent of the fatalities are in the lighter vehicles...
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