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Jun 19, 2017

TRUCKS & CYCLIST FATALITIES * UK

The Streets of London

--- On the streets of London, the CLOCS (Construction Logistics and Community Safety) ticking for truck owners in the UK capital. There’s been a growing debate in the UK on how to avoid collisions between commercial vehicles and cyclists. Truck makers are showcasing the designs they have come up with to avoid cyclist fatalities... In 2011, an analysis of nine cycling fatalities involving trucks in London discovered that seven of them involved construction vehicles, triggering concerns that while the construction industry accounted for only a small-proportion of freight traffic running in and out of the nation’s capital, their trucks were ‘over represented’ in cyclist fatalities... At a CLOCS showcase, building and industrial materials supplier SIG unveiled its first ‘enhanced urban safety’ curtain-sider, based on a 6×2 Econic. The 26-tonne GVW rear-steer rigid has the 300hp-rated OM 936LA and six-speed Allison ...
London, EN, UK - Diesel News.com.au, by Brian Weatherley - 16 June 2017

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Sep 4, 2016

TRUCKS' FATALITIES * USA: UP in 2015

* DC - Truck-involved fatalities increased 4.4 percent in 2015, DOT says

--- Truck-involved crashes resulting in fatalities increased by 4.4 percent in 2015 from 2014, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s final 2015 fatalities report released this week... NHTSA’s report says there were 4,067 truck-involved fatalities, which is the highest number since 2008. Of the 4,067 fatalities, 667 (16.4 percent) were occupants of the trucks, 10.1 percent were non-occupants and 73.5 percent were occupants of other vehicles. NHTSA’s report doesn’t account for crash fault... In total, there were 35,092 people killed in crashes in the U.S. in 2015, a 7.2 percent increase from 2014, which is the largest increase in highway fatalities since 1966, according to NHTSA. There was also a significant increase in the number of people injured in crashes in 2015, rising from 2.34 million in 2014 to 2.44 million in 2015...  These numbers are lower than NHTSA predicted in its preliminary report released in July... A 3.5 percent increase in vehicle miles traveled is one contributing factor to the rise in highway fatalities, NHTSA says. The fatality rate per 100 million vehicle miles traveled increased 3.7 percent to 1.12 in 2015... Crashes resulting in fatalities caused by driver distraction increased from 3,197 to 3,477, or 8.8 percent, in 2015 from 2014. Alcohol-impaired fatalities increased by 3.2 percent, speeding-related fatalities increased by 3 percent and drowsy-driving fatalities decreased by 3.2 percent... 
(Infograph from NHTSA: NHTSA report shows increase in truck-related fatalities in 2015)   --   Washington, DC, USA - CCJ, by Matt Cole - August 31, 2016

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Apr 18, 2016

TRUCKS' FATALITIES USA: * FMCSA's: Declined - ** Daimler: $51.5 million judgment

* 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 2016

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Jan 16, 2016

ROAD FATALITIES * USA: Truck involved fatality rate continuing to decline

* Virginia - ATA: The truck-involved fatality rate fell for the second straight year to 1.40 per 100 million miles traveled

-- The American Trucking Associations said Thursday that an analysis of data from the Department of Transportation shows over both, the long and short-term, that the rate of truck-involved fatalities is declining... According to ATA’s analysis of miles traveled data from the Federal Highway Administration and highway fatality data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the truck-involved fatality rate fell for the second straight year to 1.40 per 100 million miles traveled. The comparable figures for 2013 and 2012 were 1.44 and 1.47, respectively... Per NHTSA, there were 3,903 truck-involved fatalities in 2014, a decline of 61 total from the previous year. At the same time, the number of miles traveled by large trucks rose to more than 279 billion... Numerous studies have found that trucks are responsible for initiating less than a third of all fatal car-truck crashes, which is why ATA supports aggressive traffic enforcement and education programs aimed at changing the unsafe behaviors of all motorists, ATA President and CEO Bill Graves said... 
(Photo A truck wreck in the Lone Star State)   --  Arlington, Va., USA - The Trucker News Services – 14 Jan 2016

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Aug 28, 2013

* USA - TRUCKERS' HEALTH - Largest proportion of deaths, 48% for those 65 and older...

* Georgia - CDC report: Older workers more prone to highway-related fatalities

Atlanta,GA,USA -Fleet Owner -Aug. 27, 2013: -- A new report from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) indicates that “older” workers defined as aged 65 and above are more than three times as likely to die in a highway-related incident compared to those between the ages of 18 and 54... The agency analyzed a total of 11,587 U.S. workers aged 18 and older who died in occupational highway transportation incidents between 2008 and 2010... Of that group, 3,113 or 26.9% were aged 55 and older but overall, fatality rates were highest among workers aged 65 and older (3.1 deaths per 100,000 full-time-equivalent or “FTE” workers) followed by those aged 55 to 64 years (1.4 deaths per 100,000 FTE workers) and way above the fatality rate for those between the ages of 18 and 54 years (0.9 per 100,000 FTE workers)... Higher proportions of deaths involving tractor-trailers, however, were observed for workers aged 18 to 54 years and 55 to 64 years; some 31% and 37%, respectively... According to the research the largest proportion of deaths in each age group: 43% for those aged 18-54; some 43% to those aged 55 to 64; and 48% for those 65 and older...


* DC - Truck-driver fatigue rule survives challenge in federal court

Washington,DC,USA -The Digital Journal, by Brian Timothy Meyers -August 24, 2013: -- Earlier this month, a federal appeals court in Washington D.C., upheld - with one small exception - the new hours-of-service (HOS) regulations that govern truck drivers and how long they are permitted to drive without taking a break. This particular decision concludes the most recent chapter of the on-going feud between federal regulators and trucking companies regarding the controversial HOS rules... Specifically, the new HOS regulations added several safety-enhancing limitations to trucking hours... 

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Mar 19, 2013

TRAILER UNDERRRIDE GUARDS FATALITIES * USA

* Virginia - Insurance Group says tests raise concerns about trailer underride guards 

(Photo: Missouri crash fatalities involving truck and cars) Arlington,VA,USA -Transport Topics -14 March 2013: -- The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety said Thursday that its tests show potential weaknesses in current underride guards on tractor-trailers... Testing guards that meet both U.S. regulations and stricter Canadian regulations showed the possibility for cars to sustain more damage in certain circumstances, the insurance group said... While eight guards tested passed a test in which a car struck the center of the trailer, in tests in which about a third of the front of a car ran into a parked trailer, the underride guards did not prevent the front of the vehicle from sliding underneath... The best way to prevent car-truck fatalities is to educate the public about how to share the road with trucks, said Sean McNally, spokesman American Trucking Associations, adding that about 75% of such fatalities are “unintentionally initiated or caused by the driver of the car” ...

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Dec 19, 2012

TRUCKERS' FATALITIES * USA

* Missouri - Truck occupant fatalities up 20 percent 

Green Valley,MO,USA -Land Line, by Jami Jones -12 Dec 2012: -- Deaths of truck occupants increased in 2011 by 20 percent, underscoring what OOIDA says is a need for cab crashworthiness standards... In 2011, 635 truck occupants died in large-truck crashes, according to a report released this week by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. That is 105 more people than in 2010... That trend runs counter to the decline in occupant fatalities in passenger vehicles and light trucks. The report shows declines in the number of fatalities of the occupants of passenger cars and light trucks, dropping 4.6 and 4.1 percent respectively in 2011... Overall fatalities as a result of large-truck crashes ticket up 1.9 percent overall with fatalities of the occupants of other vehicles involved in those crashes dropping 3.6 percent... The statistics released by NHTSA do not account for the vehicle miles traveled by large trucks. Any uptick in the number of miles traveled by the trucking industry will result in a decline in the overall fatality rates of large-truck crashes...

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Mar 16, 2012

ROAD FATALITIES * Australia

* ACT - Lowest Road Freight Transport Fatalities since 2003

Canberra,ACT,Australia -The Friday Facts ATA -16 Mar 2012: -- The fatality rate for road freight transport sector workers is the lowest since data collection started in 2003, the latest figures from Safe Work Australia show...  Released on Wednesday, the Work-related Traumatic Injury Fatalities 2009-2010 report estimates the number of workers and bystanders killed each year due to work related injuries...  The fatality rate for road freight transport sector workers was almost twelve times the average fatality rate across all Australian occupations, with 22.8 deaths per 100,000 compared to 1.9 on average. However, this is the lowest fatality rate for this sector since collection of this data started in 2003... Of the 49 truck drivers who died in 2009-2010, 23 were killed when their truck collided with a stationary object, such as a tree. 13 died when their truck collided with another truck, and 3 in collisions with a car...  Of the remaining deaths, 2 were caused by falling objects during unloading, and another 2 died falling from their truck...

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Sep 17, 2010

TRUCKS FATALITIES * USA - Highway Deaths Drop 9.7 Percent to 60-Year Low

Truck-related fatalities down 20 percent from 2008, NHTSA reports

Washington,DC,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by William B. Cassidy -Sep 15, 2010: -- The number of people killed in motor vehicle crashes dropped to 33,808 in 2009, the lowest number since 1950, says the Department of Transportation... That's nearly a 10 percent reduction in fatal crashes from the previous year, despite a 0.2 percent increase in the estimated number of miles traveled, DOT said... Trucking's highway safety record improved as well... The number of people killed in accidents involving large trucks dropped 20 percent last year to 3,380 compared with 4,245 in 2008, the department reported... A large part of that drop was a 19 percent reduction in the number of passenger-vehicle fatalities in truck accidents, from 3,151 in 2008 to 2,551 last year... Last year's fatality and injury rates were the lowest recorded by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 1.13 deaths per 100 million vehicle miles... The number of people injured in motor vehicle crashes declined for the 10th consecutive year, falling 5.5 percent from 2008, according to NHTSA... The numbers reflect the benefits of seat-belt use and strong anti-drunk driving enforcement campaigns, said NHTSA Administrator David Strickland... Alcohol-related driving fatalities decreased 7.4 percent in 2009 to 10,839. Overall, 33 states and Puerto Rico reported a decline in alcohol-related fatalities... Texas had the highest number of highway fatalities - 3,476 - and 38 percent of those were alcohol-impaired driving fatalities, according to NHTSA... (Photo from truck-accident-lawyer-blog: Rock Hauling Truck Accident)

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Sep 10, 2010

Traffic Fatalities * USA - Truck-involved reach historic low

Arlington,VA,USA -Truck News (CAN)-Sep 10, 2010: -- The number of truck-involved traffic fatalities in the US declined 20% in 2009, dropping from 4,245 in 2008 to 3,380 in 2009, according to a report from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The reduction is the lowest level in recorded Department of Transportation history and also shows a 33% decrease in fatalities since the new Hours-of-Service regulations first became effective in January 2004... In addition to the 20% reduction in crash fatalities involving large trucks, the number of truck occupant deaths decreased 26% in 2009, from 682 in 2008 to 503 in 2009. The number of truck occupants injured in truck-related crashes also declined 26%. Those are the largest declines among all vehicle categories, officials said... The overall number of people killed in motor vehicle crashes in the US decreased 9.7% from 37,423 in 2008 to 33,808 in 2009, the lowest level since 1950, despite the fact that preliminary estimates show vehicle miles traveled in 2009 increased by 0.2% from 2008... (Photo from t2.gstatic: Overturned Truck in Ditch)


* DC - New National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Drunk Driving Fatality Data

Washington,DC,USA -Statement MADD National President Laura Dean-Mooney, by Chris Orzechowski -9 Sept 2010: -- MADD is pleased to see that the new drunk driving fatality data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration shows drunk driving fatalities have declined 7.4 percent to 10,839 in 2009 from 11,711 in 2008. This decline means that fatalities have been almost cut in half since MADD was founded in 1980... While encouraged by these recent numbers, MADD knows there is still a lot of work to be done on Capitol Hill and in our communities because drunk driving fatalities make up a larger portion of traffic fatalities than in 2008. With drunk driving now 32 percent of all highway fatalities, we remain as committed as ever to eliminating this problem through support for the heroes on our highways, laws requiring convicted drunk drivers to blow before they go with ignition interlocks, and efforts to turn cars into the cure through smart car technology...

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Apr 26, 2010

Trucking Accidents * USA - Remain a Problem in New York

New York,NY,USA -On Line Finance News -April 25, 2010: -- Accidents involving tractor-trailers are a problem across the United States and New York is no exception. Because of the trucks' large size, many of the accidents result in serious injuries or fatalities. This is especially true when semis collide with smaller vehicles that are not built to sustain high-velocity impacts... According to the New York Department of Motor Vehicles, there were 12,545 trucking accidents in New York in 2008, 105 of which were fatal. Unfortunately, the odds are often stacked against truck drivers: their ability to avoid accidents is often impacted by the size of their rigs and the sleep deprivation associated with long hauls... (Photo from truckinjurylawyerblog: 838Freeway Pileup)

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Jan 22, 2010

Truck-Involved Fatality Rate * USA - Declines 12.3 Percent in 2008

The trucking industry is safer than ever ...

Arlington,VA,USA -PRNewswire/USNewswire -Jan. 20, 2010: ... according to truck Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) figures just released by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), and previously released National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) data on crashes. The truck-involved fatality rate in 2008 declined 12.3 percent to 1.86 per 100 million miles from 2.12 per 100 million miles in 2007. This decline marks the largest year-to-year drop ever and the fifth consecutive year the fatality rate has improved... Since new Hours-of-Service regulations took effect in 2005, the truck-involved fatality rate has come down more than 20 percent and is at its lowest since the U.S. Department of Transportation began keeping those records in 1975. The fatality rate has declined more than 66 percent since 1975...

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Oct 3, 2009

ACCIDENTS * USA - Truck fatalities keep falling

The number of deaths related to transportation fell by almost 10 percent

Washington,DC,USA -Today's Trucking (CAN) -2 October 2009: -- Despite special interest groups' and some media's recent efforts to portray trucks as increasingly dangerous, fatalities from crashes involving medium and heavy trucks fell15.9 percent 2008, compared to 2007... Overall, the number of deaths related to transportation fell by almost 10 percent in (39,397 in 2008, down from 43,384) -- the third year in a row that total transport-related deaths have decreased in the U.S., according to preliminary figures released by the National Transportation Safety Board... Specifically, the number of medium and heavy truck-related fatalities fell from 805 to 677 in 2008... This is consistent with a 15-year trend of falling commercial truck-related fatalities... (Photo from abcactionnews: Clearwater Man Dies in Orlando Trailer Fire)

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Jul 3, 2009

Fatality Rate * USA - Truck-Involved ones, Declines 12 Percent in 2008

Arlington,VA,USA -PRNewswire/USNewswire -July 2, 2009: -- Figures released today by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) indicate that the truck-involved fatality rate in 2008 declined 12 percent, dropping from 4,822 in 2007 to 4,229... Bill Graves, President and CEO of the American Trucking Associations (ATA) said, "The trucking industry remains committed to safety and ATA will continue to advance its aggressive safety agenda in an effort to further this outstanding trend"... In addition to a 12 percent reduction in crash fatalities involving large trucks, the number of truck occupant deaths decreased 16 percent in 2008, from 805 in 2007 to 677. The overall number of people killed in motor vehicle crashes in the United States decreased 9.7 percent from 41,259 in 2007 to 37,261 in 2008, the lowest level since 1961... Programs dedicated to increasing the use of safety belts, coupled with new hours-of-service regulations, which took effect in 2005, have greatly improved highway safety. The truck-involved fatality rate is now at its lowest since the U.S. Department of Transportation began keeping those statistics in 1975...

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Feb 17, 2009

FATALITY RATE * USA - Truck-Involveds Declines 5.8 Percent in 2007

Arlington,VA,USA -PRNewswire/USNewswire -Feb. 16, 2009: -- Figures recently released by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) indicate that the truck-involved fatality rate in 2007 declined 5.8 percent to 2.12 per 100 million miles from 2.25 per 100 million miles in 2006... Since new hours-of-service regulations took effect in 2005, the truck-involved fatality rate has come down more than 10 percent and is at its lowest since records began to be kept in 1975... The truck-involved fatal crash rate and the truck-occupant fatality rate also declined from 2006 to 2007. The truck-involved fatal crash rate declined 4.5 percent to 1.85 per 100 million miles and the truck-occupant fatality rate declined 1.98 percent to 0.35 per 100 million miles... These crash rates are based on the FHWA's figures that report vehicle miles traveled by truck increased in 2007 to 226.96 billion miles from 222.5 billion in 2006. During that same time, the actual number of truck-involved fatal crashes fell to 4,190 from 4,321...

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Aug 14, 2008

Truck-Related Fatalities * USA - Declined Last Year, DOT Says

U.S. road fatalities and truck-related fatalities both declined last year, the Department of Transportation said

Washington,DC,USA -Transport Topics -14 Aug 2008: -- ... The number of people killed in heavy-duty truck-related crashes fell 4.4% to 4,808, from 5,027 in 2006, DOT said... Overall traffic fatalities fell to 41,059, the lowest number since 1994, and the fatality rate per 100 million vehicle miles traveled was 1.37, the lowest fatality rate on record, DOT said... The 2.49 million people who were injured in highway crashes last year was the lowest since the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration began collecting injury data in 1988...

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