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TRUCKS ACCIDENT * USA: Increase in commercial vehicles In Texas
* Texas - Highlighted: Rise truck accidents in commercial trucks
San Antonio,TXS,USA -PRWEB/The Houston Chronicle, by Lise Olsen -October 11, 2014: -- Commercial truck accident fatalities in Texas have increased by 51 percent since 2009 due to increased drilling and fracking statewide, according to a joint investigative news story... For six decades, highway deaths have dropped steadily all across the United States, but in Texas all motor vehicle fatalities - and accidents involving commercial trucks - have turned back upward since the state's oil drilling and fracking boom began in 2008... Between 2009 and 2013, Texas traffic fatalities climbed 8 percent from 3,122 to 3,378 while fatalities in most other states continued to decline. Traffic deaths linked to commercial vehicle crashes in Texas have risen dramatically by 51 percent, from 352 in 2009 to 532 in 2013... There's no way to tell from Texas traffic accident data just how many passenger cars or commercial vehicles that crashed can be linked directly to the state's oil and gas boom. But records show that fatal accidents increased more in the groups of counties that make up the Permian Basin and in those affected by the Barnett and Eagle Ford shale plays, where busy roads regularly fill with tractor-trailers, tanker trucks and commercial vans hauling water, workers and supplies to oil and natural gas well sites, as well in urban counties that serve as burgeoning hubs for the oil field industry... Each year, state troopers participating in a special trouble-shooting program conducted by the Department of Public Safety called "Road Check" have found that 27 to 30 percent of Texas' commercial trucks shouldn't be operating at all due to potentially life-threatening safety problems like defective brakes, bald tires, inoperable safety lights and unqualified, unfit or intoxicated drivers. Year after year, a higher percentage of Texas trucks fail to meet federal and state road safety standards than the U.S. average... Some firms scrimp or ignore safety to meet deadlines and customer demands, records related to recent accident investigations show...
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