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"Share the Road" * USA - IINC, CHP and CTA Stress, This Labor Day Weekend
Truck Blind Spots & Stopping Distance Focus Of Safety Demonstration
Los Angeles,CAL,USA -Business Wire -Sep 2, 2009: -- When big rigs and cars collide, the laws of physics determine the outcome. Most often, the passenger car bears the brunt of the damage... The Insurance Information Network of California , the California Highway Patrol and the California Trucking Association have joined forces to focus attention on truck and passenger vehicle driver safety this Labor Day weekend... CHP officers reinforced the need for passenger car drivers to understand how to safely share the road with big trucks when traveling over the holiday weekend... Trucks often weigh 20-to-30 times more than a passenger car and have a harder time maneuvering around an emergency situation. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety estimates that 4,602 people died in truck collisions in 2007. Of these deaths, 16 percent were truck occupants and 70 percent were occupants of cars and other passenger vehicles. The California Highway Patrol estimates that more than half of the 7,262 collisions involving big rigs last year were caused by passenger vehicle drivers... (Video from YouTube, by showmecables - 16 de enero de 2008: "Dangerous Driver" Crazy driver speeds through intersection full of traffic and pedestrians and barely makes it by fractions of a second)
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