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May 9, 2014

TRUCKS SAFETY * USA: Study

* Virginia - Video monitors in trucks, buses could save lives

(Photo by MATTHEW GIVE, AP - Traffic merges into one lane after a fatal accident on Interstate 95 at the Maryland House rest stop near Aberdeen, Md., on April 27, 2005. Three people were killed when their van collided with the rear of a tractor-trailer on Interstate 95) Blacksburg,VIR,USA -USA TODAY, by Larry Copeland -May 8, 2014: -- Putting video monitors in large trucks and buses could cut fatal crashes where the driver was at fault by 20%, a study finds... Installing video-based safety monitors in the nation's fleet of large trucks and buses could reduce fatal crashes in which the truck or bus driver was at fault by more than 20% a year and save 801 lives, according to new research from the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute... At-fault truck and bus injury crashes could be cut by more than 35%, eliminating 39,000 injuries, researchers found. The projections are based on the use of in-vehicle video cameras that record driving behavior and send data back to the company... The new projections grew out of research that the institute conducted in 2009 for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration... The institute study looked at a video-based program called DriveCam by Lytx, which commissioned the new analysis. That system costs $50-$75 per vehicle per month and is installed in more than 950 commercial and government fleets worldwide, according to the company... An independent truckers' group dismisses the study as "faulty" ...

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