Security group identifies deadliest states for truck crashes, requires motion

A brand new report from a nationwide truck security advocacy group identifies the states with probably the most truck crashes and calls on the federal authorities to take extra steps to cut back the variety of collisions and associated fatalities.

The Truck Security Coalition’s Deadliest Truck Crash States report launched final week ranks states primarily based on the variety of fatalities primarily based on per 100,000 inhabitants in 2021. The coalition’s Deadliest Dozen states and the variety of truck crashes per 100,000 of inhabitants embrace:

• New Mexico, 4.2
• Arkansas, 3.8
• Mississippi, 3.6
• Montana, 3.4
• Oklahoma, 3.4
• Wyoming, 3.3
• Alabama, 3.0
• Louisiana, 2.9
• Nebraska, 2.9
• Kentucky, 2.8
• South Carolina, 2.8
• Texas. 2.7

The nationwide common was 1.7. The rating is predicated on knowledge from the Nationwide Heart for Statistics and Evaluation on the Nationwide Freeway Site visitors Security Administration.

In a. assertion in regards to the new report, the coalition referred to as on the federal authorities to take motion to cut back the variety of truck crashes.

“The Truck Security Coalition calls on Congress and the US Division of Transportation to aggressively pursue commonsense options to cut back truck crash violence on our roads,” the assertion from the group stated. Many of the colation’s solutions have met with appreciable pushback from the trucking business and/or drivers.

The steps the group needs to see taken embrace:

• The Division of Transportation and Nationwide Freeway Site visitors Security Administration  should expeditiously finalize its automated emergency braking rule for all lessons of CMVs
• DOT/Federal Motor Service Security Administration should expeditiously full its velocity limiter rule for CMVs
• Congress should require DOT/NHTSA to conduct aspect underride guard impression testing, not doing so fails to adjust to Congressional intent within the Infrastructure Funding and Jobs Act
• Congress should totally fund DOT to conduct its lifesaving work with out unsafe riders that prohibit FMCSA from implementing particular security provisions for teen truckers within the Secure Driver Apprenticeship Program
• DOT/FMCSA should expeditiously require new motor carriers to go a information examination proving that they know and might implement Federal Motor Service Security Laws (FMCSRs) required to securely function a motor service enterprise, together with these hauling hazardous supplies. Presently, DOT permits anybody to function in interstate commerce who recordsdata acceptable paperwork with out requiring any proof they know the foundations to maintain truck drivers and all roadway customers protected