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Sep 26, 2015

DISTRACTED DRIVERS USA: * Driving and mobile devices a dangerous combination -- ** TRUCK DRIVER FATALITIES 2014: Highest level since 2008

* Oklahoma - Distracted truckers, danger at highway speeds

(A California Highway Patrol shows KRCR first hand the dangers of distracted driving - Video by KRCR7)

-- Moving 40 tons at highway speeds, Truckers have special rules they need to follow to keep you safe, but Fox 25 found some people breaking the law and potentially putting you in danger... Driving and mobile devices can be a dangerous combination, and federal officials say truckers who are distracted are 23 times more likely to get into a dangerous situation. Fox 25 hit the road three different times over the course of a month to see if we could find truckers playing with your safety at highway speeds... Not all distractions involve mobile phones. Fox 25 witnessed one trucker driving with his eyes off the road as he looked for something in his backseat and two taking long drinks from cups with their eyes off the road too. Those things are not illegal, but are potentially distracting... In 2014, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol issued 192 citations to commercial drivers for inattentive driving resulting in a collision, and so far this year that number is 101. That means hundreds of big rig crashes in Oklahoma every year because of distracted truckers... Numbers show that when there is an accident involving a big rig, the people most likely to die are other motorists. Truckers are not allowed to hold their cellphones while driving, but can use hands free systems to make calls...
Oklahoma City, OK, USA - OKCFox, by Mireya Garcia - Sep 21, 2015
* DC - On-the-job trucker deaths rose last year to highest point since 2008
-- FMCSA would be barred from moving forward with its rulemaking to increase the minimum amount of liability insurance required to be held by carriers if the House's DOT funding bill clears Congress and is signed by the President... Work-related truck driver fatalities rose to their highest level since 2008 last year, according to a report issued by the Department of Labor this week. About 725 heavy vehicle or tractor-trailer drivers died on the job last year, according to the report... The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the preliminary results of fatal occupational injuries in 2014 last week. Occupations in transportation and material moving made up the largest share (28 percent) of fatal injuries of any occupation, the report notes... According to the BLS, fatal work injuries in the transportation/material movement group rose 3 percent to 1,289 fatalities in 2014, the highest total since 2008... Drivers/sales workers and truck drivers made up nearly two-thirds of the deaths in the group, 835 of the 1,289. Heavy vehicle and tractor-trailer drivers accounted for 725 of the 1,289 fatalities in the group. In the for-hire transportation business, 477 truck driver fatalities occurred, according to the report... The total of 4,679 fatal work injuries recorded for 2014 nationwide is an increase of 2 percent over the revised count of 4,585 fatal work injuries in 2013... 
Washington, DC, USA - CCJ on line, by Matt Cole - September 23, 2015

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