crashes

Traffic Crashes Cost America $340 Billion in 2019

Truck safety lobby pressures DOT on crash prevention

Texas, California, Florida top 2022 money list for FMCSA’s motor carrier safety grants

Average speed reductions in pedestrian AEB tests

Nighttime crash reductions associated with good, acceptable & marginal headlights

From 1987 to 2017, frontal air bags saved 50,457 U.S. lives.

Reductions in crashes and claims from use of various technologies

Based on fatal crash data, these are the five highway stretches where truckers should be the most careful.

High rates of work zone crashes involving large trucks in Florida, Georgia and Texas have earned those states special attention from federal regulators this week as part of a national safety campaign.

“Weather is reported to be a factor in the crashes.”

IIHS says driver fatigue still is a “major risk factor.”

New categories to be added to types of crashes deemed “not preventable.”

Convoy says a study of its data shows that carriers in its network are safer than industry averages and have fewer cargo claims than the average carrier.

The railroads have delayed installing life-saving automatic braking technology for another two years, and the NTSB is running out of patience.

Australia’s National Heavy Vehicle Regulator has warned that grot and grime can obscure damage to parts during visual inspections; fatigue fractured leaf springs caused the death of truck driver Stephen Ross Brown.

Some roads are a little more treacherous than others. When it comes to trucking accidents, these nine roads are at the top.

The webinar is planned for 2 p.m. EST or 11 a.m. PST on Thursday, Nov. 15.

We pull public safety statistics from the ASCE’s 2017 Infrastructure Report Card in our latest Infographic.

As fleets adopt more advanced safety system, the issues of initial and ongoing driver training become the primary vehicle to the success of those system.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is taking a survey of truck drivers’ commutes to and from work.