User-agent: Mediapartners-Google* Disallow: Trucks World News
Google
 
Loading

Jun 29, 2016

VOLVO * Canada - To pay $ 4,86M for a truck crash

* British Columbia - Volvo ordered to pay $4.8 million to Canadian couple after terrifying crash


--- A Canadian court has awarded more than $4.8 million to a husband-and-wife trucking team after finding in the couple’s favor that truck maker Volvo’s negligence contributed to their 2009 crash... The judgment from British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Barry Davies was published on June 23. It awards plaintiffs Amandeep Hans and his wife, Pavandeep, of Surrey, B.C., more than $4.86 million for the harm the couple suffered in their Jan. 31, 2009, crash on the Trans-Canada Highway in Manitoba. The province also sued Volvo and was awarded nearly $200,000 to cover medical costs... According to the judgment, the couple was returning home from a long trip that took them into the U.S. and eastern Canada. At about 10 p.m. near Falcon Lake, the truck – a 2009 Volvo 780 – lost all electrical power, including headlights, interior lights and power steering... Court records indicate Amandeep Hans screamed “What happened? What happened?” and then “We are going to die … we are going to die,” as the trailer began to sway uncontrollably and jackknifed on the highway. The trailer came fully around and struck the cab just behind the driver’s door, forcing the truck off the road and into a ditch where it came to rest on the passenger side... Pavandeep Hans, who was lying in the sleeper berth at the time of the crash, managed to unbuckle her husband and drag him out of the vehicle. Although not seriously wounded, court records indicate that Amandeep was in a state of shock and that in the seven years since the crash he has suffered from a debilitating case of post-traumatic stress disorder... The couple’s lawsuit alleged Volvo was negligent in “designing, manufacturing and installing” a critical cab positive terminal electrical connection, the failure of which caused the truck’s entire electrical system to shut down and the vehicle to subsequently crash... In a response filed with the court, Volvo admitted the collision was caused by a loose nut on the cab positive terminal but denied the plaintiffs established that the Swedish-based motor company was negligent in the design, manufacture or installation of the connection. The company also argued that the husband and wife were overstating the extent of the psychological injuries sustained by Amandeep Hans following the crash... The judge, however, concluded that Amandeep Hans’ PTSD was caused by the crash and that Volvo was negligent in installing the equipment, which caused the power failure. The power failure was attributed to the loose nut not being tightened “to the requisite torque value when the truck left the factory” ... The pair had been driving as a team since June 2005. They purchased the 2009 Volvo 780 in December 2007. The truck developed electrical problems, including a total electrical system shutdown on July 4, 2008. Court records indicate the electrical problems persisted until the Manitoba crash... 
(Photo: Hwy closed from Falcon Lake to Ontario Border)  --   Vancouver, BC, Canada - Land Line, by Greg Grisolano - 27 June 2016

Labels: , ,

posted by Unknown @ 6:23 PM  0 comments

Mar 21, 2016

TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS WORLDWIDE * 1.25 million people killed... ** And sends 2.5 million to ERs Each Year

* Swiss - Traffic accidents kill 1.25 million people each year worldwide 

--  Traffic accidents kill about 1.25 million people each year around the world, participants at a forum on road safety warned Wednesday, calling on countries to work to reduce the alarming figure... World Health Organization (WHO) chief Margaret Chan conveyed a message from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, saying that “reducing traffic deaths is one of the Sustainable Development Goals and an obligation for the world” ... Some 90 percent of all traffic fatalities occur in developing countries, Chan said, adding that at least another 30 million people are injured in road accidents... Road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death among young people aged 15-29 years. Almost half of all road traffic deaths are “vulnerable road users” — pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists, a recent WHO report said... Some 1,500 delegates from more than 100 countries, including health, transport and interior ministers, have gathered in Brasilia to find solutions to halve road traffic deaths and injuries by 2020... On the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims that falls on Nov. 15, Ban called on governments “to tighten enforcement of laws on speeding, drinking and driving, and to mandate and enforce the use of seatbelts, motorcycle helmets and child restraints — all of which have been shown to save lives” ... According to Chan, each year 500 billion U.S. dollars is spent worldwide on treating traffic accident victims, a substantial amount that could be better spent...
(File Photo AFP-Lehtikuva)  --  Geneve, Switzerland -  FTimes/Xinhua Report - Nov 19, 2015

 ** USA -  Traffic accidents send 2.5 million to ERs each year, CDC says

  -- Road crash injuries sent more than 2.5 million Americans to emergency rooms in 2012. And, nearly 200,000 were hospitalized due to motor vehicle collisions, a new federal government report says... That means about 7,000 people went to the emergency department every day because of motor vehicle crash injuries in 2012, according to Ileana Arias, principal deputy director for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control andP revention (CDC)... “Motor vehicle crash injuries occur all too frequently and have health and economic costs for individuals, the health care system, and society. We need to do more to keep people safe and reduce crash injuries and medical costs,” Arias said in an agency news release... The lifetime medical expenses for those crash injuries totaled $18 billion. That includes $10 billion for those admitted to hospital and $8 billion for patients treated in ERs and released, according to the Oct. 7 Vital Signsreport by the CDC... Work lost over a lifetime due to crash-related injuries in 2012 cost about $33 billion, the report found. The average lifetime cost of each crash-related ER visit was $3,300, and $57,000 for each hospitalization. More than 75 percent of costs occur during the first 18 months after the injury, according to the report... Teens and young adults — aged 15 to 29 — have a much higher risk for road crash injuries and accounted for nearly 1 million of such injuries in 2012 (38 percent). On the other end of the age spectrum, people older than 80 had the highest hospitalization rates. One-third of those over 80 injured in crashes ended up hospitalized, the report noted... There was some good news in the report. There were nearly 400,000 fewer ER visits and 5,700 fewer hospitalizations for crash-related injuries in 2012 than in 2002, according to the report. That translates to about $1.7 billion less in lifetime medical costs and $2.3 billion less in lifetime lost work costs, the report found... “Motor vehicle crashes and related injuries are preventable,” Gwen Bergen, a behavioral scientist in the division of unintentional injury prevention at the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, said in the CDC news release... “Although much has been done to help keep people safe on the road, no state has fully implemented all the interventions proven to increase the use of car seats, booster seats, and seat belts; reduce drinking and driving; and improve teen driver safety,” she added...
(HealthDay News Picture)  -- Washington, DC, USA - Ministry of Safety - 11th Oct 2015


*** USA - Study: Poor people more likely to die in traffic accidents

– The good news is that because of advances in automobile safety, fewer Americans are dying in car crashes. The bad news is that Americans who are struggling financially are not sharing in those advances, and are more likely than the well-to-do to die in a car crash. For people 25 and older who have less than a high school diploma, fatality rates have actually increased between 1995 and 2010. Researchers looked at data from the National Center for Health Statistics and the Current Population Survey to determine traffic fatalities and education levels. They found the death rate for drivers, pedestrians and cyclists were about 2.5 times higher for those with the least education in 1995. By 2010 they were 4.3 times more likely to die in an accident, compared to higher education levels. “It’s true that there are big differences in the quality of the residential environments that people have in terms of their risks of accidental death as pedestrians,” study co-author Sam Harper told the Washington Post. Harper explains it’s not that a college degree makes someone a better driver. People with lower educations tend to driver older cars that lack many of the safety features found in new cars, like side airbags, automatic warnings and rear cameras...
(Photo by David McNew/Getty Images - Researchers say those with lower education levels do not have access to the latest safety features found in new cars)   --  Washington, DC, USA  - CBSDC - October7, 2015

Labels: ,

posted by Unknown @ 10:24 AM  0 comments

Aug 13, 2013

* USA - VEHICLES CRASHED: Down 5%

* DC - Good news from the traffic fatality front

(Photo) 
Washington,DC,USA -Fleet Owner, by Sean Kilcarr -Aug. 9, 2013: -- Here’s an unexpected bit of good news: according to preliminary data collected by the National Safety Council, deaths from motor vehicle crashes during the first six months of this year are down 5% compared to the same six month period last year... That’s a sharp reversal from a far more negative trend the group thought might be taking shape back in February when its number-crunching determined that traffic fatalities increased for 2012 overall versus 2011...

Labels:

posted by Unknown @ 11:28 AM  0 comments

Jan 28, 2012

ACCIDENTS STUDY * USA

* ¡¡¡  Eyes on the road, people ...

(Photo: flickr)
...  But check out this anti-tailgating billboard !!!


* DC - Truck, Bus and Motorcycle Accident Fatalities Increase

Washington,DC,USA -24.7PressRelease/Nagle and Associates -January 28, 2012  -- According to National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), in 2010 there was an increase in the amount of accident fatalities involving medium and heavy trucks, buses and motorcycles. In addition, in 2010 deadly rail and pipeline accidents also increased.
 Recently released NTSB data:
- 4,502 motorcycle fatalities in 2010, up from 4,469 in 2009
- Rail accident deaths increased from 742 in 2009 to 813 in 2010
- Truck accident fatalities involving medium and heavy trucks increased from 499 in 2009 to 529 in 2010
- In 2010, there were 44 bus-related deaths, compared to 26 the previous year
- A pipeline accident in San Bruno, California contributed to the amount of pipeline accident fatalities rising from 13 in 2009 to 22 in 2010
 Despite the increase of accident fatalities in certain categories, the NTSB also found that there has actually been a decrease in deadly roadway accidents overall. In 2009, the agency found, there were 33,883 accidents involving passenger cars, vans and light trucks. This number decreased to 32,885 in 2010...  Although this data is encouraging, the NTSB says that the roads should still be much safer.
 The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) also found that there were fewer motor vehicle fatalities on America's roads in 2010 compared to recent years. According to a study released by the agency:
- Alcohol-related accidents fatalities decreased 4.9 percent in 2010
- The deaths of passengers in vehicle crashes decreased by 1,260
- The amount of fatalities per 100 miles traveled decreased to 1.10, down from 1.15 in 2009...

Labels:

posted by Unknown @ 8:21 AM  0 comments

Feb 9, 2009

ACCIDENTS * USA - NSC: 2008 traffic deaths hit record low

Washington,DC,USA -CCJ -6 Feb 2009: -- The National Safety Council announced that motor vehicle deaths in 2008 achieved the lowest rate since the NSC began publishing its annual Injury Facts statistical report in the 1920s... The estimated annual death rate from motor vehicle-related crashes in 2008 was 13 deaths per 100,000 people, a 9 percent decrease from 2007, according to NSC data. The estimated annual mileage death rate for 2008 was 1.38 deaths per 100 million vehicle miles traveled, a 4 percent decrease from 2007... Janet Froetscher, president and chief executive officer of the NSC said “While a number of factors have helped lower the rate, it is our experience that public education coupled with visible enforcement of safety laws can be one of the most effective ways to change behaviors and save lives"... Also contributing to the lower rate are improved vehicle safety features and greater visibility and enforcement of important traffic safety laws, including laws related to seatbelt use, child passengers, impaired driving and teen driving... (Photo: Car Accident Fire Truck Auto Accident EMT )

Labels:

posted by Unknown @ 11:20 AM  1 comments

Jul 18, 2008

TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS * Bulgaria - The most often mentioned causes: alcohol or drugs and speeding

Road infrastructure, clearly, was not the only reason for traffic accidents

Sofia,Bulgaria -News Agency Focus/ The Sofia Echo -18 July 2008: -- ... according to Valentin Panchev, state expert on road safety at the Transport Ministry. The most often mentioned causes of traffic accidents in Bulgaria were driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs and speeding, Focus quoted Panchev as saying. More than 20 000 Bulgarians had had their driving licences revoked for breaching traffic regulations in 2007, he said... Revoking licences and the periodic safe driving campaigns have had a small impact on the death toll of road accidents, Interior Ministry statistics show. The number of crashes in 2007 fell by 2.2 per cent on the year to about 8000, while the number of people killed on the roads decreased by 3.3 per cent to 1004. In the period January 1-July 15 2008, the death toll was 509 in 3966 crashes, compared with 507 who died in 4073 accidents over the same period of 2007... The number of accidents traditionally increases in summer months because of the higher number of tourists, and also because freight carriers at the height of harvest season routinely overload trucks, while the truck drivers often disregard driving time and rest regulations, the Transport Ministry said on July 11... As a means of prevention, the motor vehicle administration executive agency of the ministry has launched mass checks along the Black Sea coast, paying special attention to buses carrying tourists and trucks carrying construction materials and building waste to and from construction sites, the ministry said in a statement on its website... (Photo ASSEN TONEV : Despite numerous wrecked car displayed by the sides of Bulgarian roads, the number of traffic accidents is decreasing very slowly)

Labels:

posted by Unknown @ 9:40 AM  0 comments