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Safety Experts * USA - Truck-Car Collisions Can Be Made Safer
Chicago,ILL,USA -Chicago CBS, by Pam Zekman ―March 5, 2009: -- ... It's one of the scariest sights for a motorist: You're eye-level with a semi trailer, and your car is heading for a collision. Like the accident on I-94 that killed a newly engaged couple that was driving to a Thanksgiving dinner. "The roads were icy, and their car slid underneath the long side of the trailer," said Lois Sadigh, mother of one of the victims... They're called side underride accidents. That's when a car crashes underneath the trailer of a semi-truck. Oftentimes, the massive wheels crush the car and whoever's in it... Ten years ago, federal regulations went into effect requiring rear guards on most new semi-truck trailers. But nothing was done to provide similar guards on the sides of the trailers. They're needed, says Joan Claybrook, a former federal highway safety official... The trucking industry opposes sideguards, saying they would weigh too much and cost too much... A spokeswoman for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says the sides of trailers would need to be significantly re-designed and strengthened to make a guard useful -- a claim safety experts deny... (Photo: A typical Rear and Side Underride Accident) Labels: road safety debate
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