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FATAL COLLISIONS * Canada - BC truckers most crash prone; still safer than car drivers
Vancouver,BC,USA -Today's Trucking -12 June 2009: -- Truckers in B.C. were almost two times as likely to be involved in a fatal collision than drivers from Ontario or Quebec, according to a 166-study commissioned by the BC Trucking Safety Council -- a industry co-op between the BC Trucking Association and WorkSafeBC... In fact, the study -- titled "Best Practices for Truck Safety" -- found that B.C. truckers are the most crash prone in Canada... They were to blame for 18.9 percent of fatal accidents in Canada, compared to 10 percent in Central Canada; 14.8 percent in the rest of the West; and 12.2 per cent in the Atlantic Provinces... According to a report by The Vancouver Sun, there were 470 fatal accidents in B.C., but the truck driver was the fatality in only 20 per cent of them... The study, conducted by the Traffic Injury Research Foundation, also found that drivers of the other vehicles involved were found to be more often at fault, which is inline with virtually every study comparing truck-car cash rates. In B.C., specifically, 57 percent of non-truck vehicles were to blame... The newspaper reports that speeding, fatigue, impairment by alcohol or drugs, undivided roads; and poor weather and road conditions were the key contributing factors... (B.C. drivers involved in crashes, tended to be older than in other regions)Labels: trucking accidents
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