In 2002, a woman and her family returned from a Christmas shopping trip on a road in Texas when a truck is about 18-wheel trailer with a load of sand, crossed the line center of the road and collided with his truck. His wife, his son was 14, the son who was the mother of 70 years of 17-years daughter, pregnant with twins, in this terrible accident, killed by a truck. Her daughter of 14 months was the only surviving son. The driver of the truck, an illegal immigrantThe immigrants had used a false social security number to obtain a commercial driver's license and a history of arrests and violations of the truck was safe. After the collision, the truck driver has admitted to his employer who had entered illegally in United States exaggerated his truck – and driving was a false Social Security number. Despite everything, the company is authorized to drive his truck another18 months.
In 2007, the father of two girlsDetroit, died when their vehicle was hit by a control to full truckload of 75 tons of gravel, had lost his driver. The suffering in this terrible car accident, the driver of the truck, because a seizure disorder, has taken a strong anti-epilepsy drug Tegretol, a drug known to cause drowsiness and delayed reaction time. The driver later admitted that he had received no training from their employer and not to control the truck tireand brakes.
In 2008, a bus jumped by 55 Vietnamese American Catholics for a religious festival, a tire and crashed, killing 17 people. The tire blew reconstruction in violation of federal safety standards. In view of these tragic bus accident, we discovered that the bus is waiting for approval for a federal license. According to their founding documents show, was the owner and the management of another company forced to remove vehiclesthe road, after numerous breaches of security. The case was a worrying development: The companies are in violation of safety rules often change their names and just keep going. A 2009 GAO report found that more than 1,000 agents have followed this procedure.
Truck accidents kill and injure, 4000 Each year, 80,000
The fact that most Americans lead the 30 million for roads and highways are not aware of a disturbing statistic: letthe road with more than 200,000 vehicles in poor condition.
According to a recent report by the American Association of Justice, was published, there were more than 28,000 trucking companies, more than 200,000 units, which are vulnerable on the roads of the United States. This is a huge potential truck accident. Among the most surprising was the brakes, bad tires, hazardous, costs have exceeded the weight limits and drivers with little or no training or drug and alcoholDependencies. Some trucking companies, top with the compensation system, truck drivers, speed limits and the maximum driving time for promotion.
These alarming statistics highlight a problem and more dangerous for motorists and truck drivers: While the trucks are involved in less than four percent of all vehicles on the roads of the United States, 12% of all fatal traffic accidents. According to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, with over 4000 employeesdie each year in collision with another truck and 80,000 are seriously injured. The probability that the continuation of a driver are injured or killed in a collision with a truck in danger of particular concern. For the year 2007 143.000 were large trucks were involved in fatal accidents. Unfortunately, many of these truck accidents could be avoided if only cut transport company with the security standards for the corners to increase profits.
More than a fifth ofTruck safety inspections announced Failed
In June 2009, the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance inspection carried out on the road in the global economy of the United States is hit by truck, four months before such controls in order to notify the company in time to solve potential problems. However, 22.2% of control and trucks were not closed. The states with the highest rate of violations of federal security were from West Virginia, North Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa and Vermont.
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