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Mar 19, 2013

TRAILER UNDERRRIDE GUARDS FATALITIES * USA

* Virginia - Insurance Group says tests raise concerns about trailer underride guards 

(Photo: Missouri crash fatalities involving truck and cars) Arlington,VA,USA -Transport Topics -14 March 2013: -- The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety said Thursday that its tests show potential weaknesses in current underride guards on tractor-trailers... Testing guards that meet both U.S. regulations and stricter Canadian regulations showed the possibility for cars to sustain more damage in certain circumstances, the insurance group said... While eight guards tested passed a test in which a car struck the center of the trailer, in tests in which about a third of the front of a car ran into a parked trailer, the underride guards did not prevent the front of the vehicle from sliding underneath... The best way to prevent car-truck fatalities is to educate the public about how to share the road with trucks, said Sean McNally, spokesman American Trucking Associations, adding that about 75% of such fatalities are “unintentionally initiated or caused by the driver of the car” ...

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