* DC - Fatal crashes and fatalities involving large trucks declined
-- The number of large trucks involved in fatal crashes decreased in 2014 by 5%, to 3,744 from 3,921 in 2013, according to a report released April 15 by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration... The total number of fatalities involving large trucks and buses declined 2.7%, to 4,161 in 2014 from 4,278 in 2013... The declines in the number of truck-involved fatal crashes and fatalities occurred despite an increase of 4 million miles traveled by trucks over the same period, from 275 million to 279 million, the report said... The information in the report “Large Truck and Bus Crash Facts, 2014”, was compiled by FMCSA’s analysis division, and the major sources of data came from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System, General Estimates System and the Motor Carrier Management Information System Crash File, the agency said...
(Photo: Vincent Petrella's Tollway truck, seen from the rear, right. His passenger survived) -- Washington,. DC, USA - Transport Topics, by Eric Miller - 15 April 2016
** Louisiana - Jury issues $51 Million verdict against Daimler
-- A jury in New Orleans has issued a $51.5 million judgment against Daimler Trucks North America after a 2012 incident that left a woman badly injured... The woman was hurt in a parking lot after her husband's 2007 Freightliner truck moved despite having its emergency brake on, according to the suit... The truck pinned her under its wheels and dragged her, resulting in serious injuries and a severe brain injury, according to her attorneys... Court filings indicate the husband left the vehicle with the brake on, but it started moving anyway... The suit filed by the adult children was against Daimler Trucks, an insurance company and KLLM Transport Services. The jury found Daimler to be 90% at fault...
(Photo) -- New Orleans, LOU, USA - Transport Topics - 17 April 2016Labels: trucks' fatalities
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