Every year, over 4,500 people are killed in road crashes in the USA which involve big trucks.
This is a stunningly high figure so it begs a serious question as to why there are so many deaths.
FMCSA issue: Inadequate Safety in Relation to Big Trucks
Poor Road Safety Standards from the USDOT and NHTSA
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
The USDOT is the government body that oversees precisely what its title states, but in the context of road transportation it has three agencies dealing with specific aspects, and from the perspective of safety, all three have flaws or areas in which they do not achieve what they could.
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‘Modern roundabouts’ were invented in Britain in the 1960s and these were a dramatic improvement on the rotaries and traffic circles of old. For whatever inexplicable reason, they were not introduced by the USA until the early 2000s — following over 40 years’ of prior use and best-practice development elsewhere.
State Drivers Manuals still can’t be trusted in the USA – but they ARE improving!
Very recently, the vast majority of the information in U.S. state drivers’ manuals was not only inadequate in it’s quantity, but ridiculously, a lot of it was so bad that it was dangerous. More recently, however, the standard has started to improve and farther down this article we will tell you how and why.
The U.S. Media Needs to Follow Guidelines for Highway Safety Issues and Road Crash Reports
Whenever a forensic crash investigation has not been completed — something which typically takes many days — it is very unwise for anyone at a crash scene to speculate about the cause of the incident. It is not rare for things that look obvious to prove entirely inaccurate.
