Recent media attention on the number of deaths from road semi-trailer has a lot of people are asking whether our roads are actually “safe”. When fully loaded truck, like the beat at the back of a truck on I-5 California last month can be an intense amount of damages. This accident, three people were killed and at least ten others wounded when the truck in the under-550-foot truck crashed on the front, a very large battery-up, and finally an explosion.
It is not the first time the safety of the use of our roads with a lot of truck trailers have been called into question. The practice of the Trucking Industry are always in the reform of the number of fatal accidents by these vehicles, particularly the reduction of the duration of a truck driver drive without interruption, introduction of new payment methods drivers who do not, “the mile – “Incentives and more personnel to patrol the road design to eliminate drivers who are not good books or edge break the highway code. But is that enough?
In theory, the strengthening of security is useful, but the process is slow and for many families, too slow. The year 2000 marked the founding of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), an organization aimed at reducing the number of deaths from accidents involving trucks. In 2005 not much has been improved. Estimates of the number of annual deaths from large truck is more than 5200th In other words, 100 families in the U.S. lose expensive, because a large truck mortality for each week.
So, what can you do to keep you and your family?
The industry rebuff compensation not anytime soon, and then one can hope that some of these measures begin to reduce the number of deaths in road traffic, the time has come to ensure that you are at the controls of the vehicles to make safe, you may be able to.
Even the vehicles Mai will not be able to fight against a collision with a truck tractor, but there are certain categories of vehicles, which tend to be more successful than others. First, the SUVs and vans in general, its inhabitants, more certainty that the cars in collisions. Of course, other factors, like the passengers in the event of an accident such as an accident, the speed of the vehicles that move, and the passive safety of vehicles, VUS pick-up and are generally heavier and thus support the mitigation.
Other important factors to consider are the active and passive safety in vehicles. For example, while the majority of SUV offers dual stage airbags (the nature, the protection of occupants of the back and the head to avoid collisions by contact with the dashboard and steering column), the Isuzu Ascender 5-passenger sports side head curtains airbags protect the body from injury by rolling or side effects. Take the time to compare the safety of your vehicle is available, the safety features in cars, by the companies, which are well known to the security (such as Isuzu and Volvo) gave an indication of the gaps in your system safety of vehicles.