INFRASTRUCTURES * USA - Rough roads major factor in deaths

Road conditions play a pivotal role in highway deaths and accidents...

Calverton,MD,USA -eTrucker, by Todd Dills -1 July 2009: -- ... according to a study conducted by the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation on behalf of the Transportation Construction Coalition... Roadway condition is a contributing factor in more than half of the 42,000 deaths that occur yearly on U.S. roadways, the study concludes, and the costs associated with roadway-condition-enabled crashes exceed $217 billion yearly... “On a Crash Course: The Dangers and Health Costs of Deficient Roadways” – full report available here – analyzes data from, among other sources, the Large Truck Crash Causation Study conducted by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration earlier this decade. (A different study concluded that, among crashes reported in those data, 20 percent of large truck accidents were caused by road conditions)...(Photo from comps.fotosearch: usa nevada gerlach)