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TRUCKERS' SAFETY * Switzerland - New truck driver safety checklists
* USA - Study claims traffic violations raise risk of future crash
Arlington,VA,USA -Fleet Owner, by Sean Kilcarr -Apr 21, 2011: -- A new study by the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) is finding a high degree of correlation between the number and type of traffic convictions received by commercial truck drivers and their risk of being involved in a crash down the road... ATRI’s study examined data on 582,772 U.S. truck drivers between 2007 and 2009 and found a dozen specific behaviors and convictions that, in aggregate, raise a driver’s risk of being involved in a truck crash by more than 50%... Broken down individually, the group’s analysis discerned that a “failure to use/improper signal” conviction increased likelihood of a future crash by 96%. Ten additional convictions were also significant crash predictors; of these, eight had an associated crash likelihood increase between 56% and 84%, while two registered between 36% and 40%... In relation to driver violations, an improper passing violation had the strongest association with crash involvement, ATRI noted. Drivers with this violation were 88% more likely than their peers to be involved in a crash. Seven additional violations had significant crash associations, with five ranging in magnitude between 38% and 45%, and a further two ranking between 18% and 21%... Finally, the results indicated that drivers who had a past crash also had an 88% increase in the likelihood of a future crash, ATRI’s research noted...
* USA - Keeping Eyes on Distracted Driving’s Toll
• Reprogrammed your GPS device?
• Retrieved something you or a child dropped?
• Searched for a particular CD?
• Put on makeup or shaved?
• Struggled to open a package of nuts or chips?
Perhaps you never have texted or talked on a cellphone while operating a motor vehicle. But if you engaged in any of the above activities, you are just as guilty of distracted driving as if you had...
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