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Jan 20, 2016

HIGHWAY SAFETY * USA: Improved

* Virginia - Safety within the trucking industry continues to improve
-- That phrase must seem obvious to Transport Topics readers but may appear to be an oxymoron among a public far too used to viewing viral images of the unfortunate aftermath of truck-involved accidents. As we know, the trucker often is immediately blamed, though statistics show that is not the case a majority of the time... That makes the announcement of the latest highway safety statistics all the more important. The total number of people who died in accidents involving large trucks declined 1.54% to 3,903, according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Furthermore, government data show trucks traveled 4 billion additional miles in 2014 than 2013, meaning that the fatality rate fell for a second straight year to 1.4 deaths per 100 million miles, based on an analysis from American Trucking Associations... The data incorporate all trucks weighing at least 10,000 pounds. That is important to note because it means many of the “truck drivers” involved in these accidents do not hold a commercial driver license... We have no way to know for sure, but it is logical someone with the skills required to obtain a CDL is less likely to be in an accident than others. That too, however, is often lost on the public...
(Photo: Weird accident) -- Arlington, VA, USA - Transport Topics - 18 Jan 2016

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