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Road Safety * Canada - Heavy load truck drivers doing their part for
Kelowna,BC,CAN -Kelowna Capital News/BC Local News -June 23, 2009: -- Trucking safety is once again making the news—and it’s good news, even though the topic is heavy truck collisions in B.C.... The newly released study, Best Practices for Truck Safety by the internationally respected Traffic Injury Research Foundation (TIRF), has found that the trucking industry’s safety record is, contrary to occasional high-profile, negative news reports, making a valuable contribution to road safety in B.C.... Significantly, the report also suggests that one of the greatest opportunities for safety improvements on B.C.’s roads lies not with trucking companies but with drivers of other vehicles... Since heavy trucks share their workplace with the travelling public, trucking companies and their drivers must ensure that they operate safely and responsibly... But the trucking industry cannot do this without public understanding, support and cooperation... Reducing traffic injuries and fatalities requires all road users to learn to share the road safely... (Picture: harvest.canadaeast: Canada's Traffic Injury)* B.C. has Canada's worst truck drivers
BC,CAN -Canwest News Service, by Lori Culbert -June 14, 2009: -- B.C. truckers are more often at fault in fatal collisions than their counterparts in the rest of Canada, a report analysing truck safety in the province has found... Truck drivers in B.C. were to blame in 18.9 per cent of fatal accidents, compared to 14.8 per cent in the western region, 10 per cent in central Canada, and 12.2 per cent in the Atlantic... The drivers of other vehicles involved in fatal collisions with trucks, however, were more often at fault than the truckers were in all Canadian regions, including 57 per cent of the time in B.C.... Speeding, fatigue, impairment by alcohol or drugs, and undivided roads are among the key contributing factors to collisions in B.C. involving large trucks, the report says... There were 470 fatal accidents in B.C. in the study period, but the truck driver died in only 20 per cent of them... The B.C. drivers involved tended to be older than those in other regions. Fifty-nine per cent were over 40. They also were more likely to have some involvement in the cause of the crash, such as being inattentive, driving too fast for the conditions and even driving in the wrong direction... Most fatal collisions happened on undivided highways, under poor road conditions (rain, snow, ice or slush), and on curved or hilly roads, said the report... (Photograph by: Bruce Stotesbury, Canwest News Service files, Vancouver Sun - SPEEDING, FATIGUE, DRUGS AND ALCOHOL FUEL HIGHER AND MORE DEADLY CRASH RATES ON OUR ROADS: Truck drivers were to blame for 18.9 per cent of fatal accidents in B.C. -- the highest percentage in the country -- according to a report analysing truck safety in the province)Labels: roads safety
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