Displaying death counts on highway message boards causes 4.5% more crashes within approximately 6 miles.
Uptick in Staged Accidents Target Commercial Vehicles
The COVID pandemic has created a spike in fraudulent claims targeting vocational trucks by instigating staged accidents, which involves maneuvering an unsuspecting employee driver into an intentional crash in order to make a false insurance claim or to file a lawsuit against the company if it is self-insured.