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Apr 30, 2015

SAFETY TRUCKS * USA: New technology to make trucks safer

* Georgia - Safety advocate calls for automated brakes in big rigs 

-- The Georgia State Patrol confirms there are no charges filed yet against the truck driver believed to be responsible for last week's fatal crash near Savannah. Five nursing students from Georgia Southern died in the wreck on Interstate 16. The truck involved did not have the latest in anti-crash technology, according to investigators... Since 2010, Conway Freight in Gwinnett County has wired each new truck with cameras that watch the driver and the road, and a second camera to watch the lane markings. The system sounds an alarm if the big rig drifts over the line. Nearly its entire fleet of 9,500 trucks has a radar system to help alert a driver to impending risk ahead... Atlanta safety advocate Steve Owings, who founded Road Safe America after the death of his son Cullum in a truck crash in 2002, petitioned the government in February to require the type of radar system Conway has installed. "It would have made that crash much less violent, and probably would have avoided it all together," Owings said. Over four years of use, Conway says its rate of front-end collision dropped 67 percent. "The basic safety comes from the driver paying attention, but this is a very good insurance policy," said driver Tim Vog...
(Photo - Scene of the deadly crash)  --  Gwinnett County, GA, USA — WSB TV/Channel 2, by Jim Strickland - April 28, 2015

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