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Mar 21, 2013

SLEEPER-BERTH OCCUPANTS AT RISK * USA

* Kentucky - Study finds that safety restraint usage is key to preventing truck crash injuries

Lexington,KY,USA -Fleet Owner, by Sean Kilcarr and Deborah Whistler -Mar. 19, 2013: -- A recent study by the University of Kentucky’s College of Public Health concludes that the lack of safety restraint is the main factor in injury severity to truck drivers and passengers in commercial vehicle crashes, rather than the location of drivers and passengers within the cab... Indeed, non-use of occupant restraints is the primary reason sleeper berth occupants are injured or killed in a severe crash, Dr. Terry Bunn, director of the Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center and an author of the study, told.  The other risk factor found to increase the odds of injury to a truck driver or passenger is the area of first contact in the collision – especially the front or side of the vehicle, she said. Bunn said the study reviewed 708 semi-truck collisions involving a passenger in the sleeper berth compartment in Kentucky between 2000 and 2010 to determine if passengers in the sleeper berth were at higher risk of injury in a collision compared to semi-truck drivers. The study’s results indicate that seating position is not a significant factor associated with an injury in a moving truck collision; rather, the lack of restraint use by both types of occupants was the main determining factor related to injury severity...

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