STUDY * Sweden - Heavy Truckers Out Of Control

Sweden -ScienceDaily (UK) -Sep. 1, 2008: -- Research carried out in Sweden suggests that there are three critical manoeuvres that lead to loss of control of heavy trucks and subsequent accidents. Writing in the International Journal of Vehicle Safety, the researchers explain that negotiating a bend is the main cause of loss of control, closely followed by avoidance manoeuvres, and road-edge recovery... Sogol Kharrazi and Robert Thomson of the Department of Applied Mechanics, at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden have analysed data from the Large Truck Crash Causation Study database and looked at what caused the drivers to lose control of their vehicles. They considered accident type, what kind of manoeuvres preceded the accident, the class of vehicles involved in the accident, driving conditions and road characteristics... (Photo by Franc Podgorek/iStockphoto - Truck that drove off the road and just caught fire. Negotiating a bend is the main cause of loss of control of trucks)