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Apr 11, 2013

* Canada - MANDATORY SIDE GUARDS FOR TRUCKS?

* Ontario - Truck company supports Olivia Chow's call for mandatory side guards

(Photo by MOE DOIRON/THE GLOBE AND MAIL: Adam Hartmann, 11 looks on as MP Olivia Chow is interviewed at a press conference in Toronto April 9, 2013. The event, led by Chow, was a call for the mandatory use of life-saving side guards on large trucks. Adam Hartmann's father, Ulrich, was killed as a result of a truck accident that could've been prevented with the device) 
Toronto,ONT,CAN -The Globe and Mail, by RENATA D’ALIESIO -Apr. 09 2013: -- New Democrat MP, Olivia Chow, is renewing her call for Ottawa to make side guards mandatory on big trucks, lauding an Ontario garbage-truck manufacturer that has taken the rare step of voluntarily outfitting its vehicles with this safety tool... Side guards, which cover the potentially dangerous gap between a truck’s front and rear wheels, have long been mandatory on most large trucks in Europe and Japan, but they’re not required in North America. The guards help prevent cyclists and pedestrians from falling beneath a truck during a collision and getting crushed under the rig’s wheels... The Ontario chief coroner’s office called for national side-guard regulation last year after reviewing 224 cyclist and pedestrian fatalities. Twenty-nine of the deaths involved heavy trucks, with nearly half of the victims dragged, pinned or run over after striking a truck’s side... Transport Canada, however, has stated the evidence on the effectiveness of side guards is not definitive. The transportation regulator has commissioned studies of guards and of aerodynamic skirts, which also cover a truck’s side gap but are not specifically designed to make streets safer...

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