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An accident involving a truck can be tragic given the size of the vehicles. Its no wonder that quite a few of the accidents involve fatalities. There are factors that impact trucks in approaches that do not affect passenger vehicles. A sudden gust of wind against the hundreds of square feet on the side of a tractor trailer can turn the truck into a sailboat. Even if the truck doesnt flip over, just swerving into one other visitors lane can be a disaster.

Jackknifing is an additional hazard restricted to tractor trailer trucks. When a truck jackknifes, where the trailer goes in a different path from the tractor, the driver has no manage. The result in of the jackknife itself could be beyond the control of the driver, even a single with years of knowledge. A sudden patch of black ice or an oil spill on the road can turn the truck into an unintended weapon.

Truck drivers are paid to bring goods from point A to point B. The sooner the driver can get back to point A to choose up additional cargo, the a lot more he will earn. Put yet another way, the quicker he goes and the longer he drives with out stopping implies additional money for him and his family.

The Numbers Tell the Story

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) conducted the Substantial Truck Crash Causation Study (LTCCS). The study covered 120,000 large truck crashes from April 2001 to December 2003, and then narrowed the study by a representative sample: each and every crash involved at least one sizeable truck and resulted in a fatality or injury. In the chart beneath you will see driving also rapid for conditions and fatigue amongst the variables contributing to accidents.

Completely half of the study involved collisions between sizeable trucks and passenger vehicles, which the study defined as pickup trucks, passenger cars, SUVs and vans.