
Many factors, including inherent jury bias, can drive jury awards higher in trucking litigation cases, a new ATRI study has found.
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Transportation and material moving workers were the occupational group with the highest number of fatal work injuries in 2022 and the highest fatal incident rate, according to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics.
Read More →A scare that could have been fatal has HDT Editor in Chief digging into the issue of wrong-way drivers in her All That's Trucking blog.
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The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recently released a preview of 2019 data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System, which included estimates for the first half of 2020.
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While early estimates for 2019 from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration show an overall decrease in highway fatalities for the third consecutive year, fatalities involving trucks over 10,000 pounds rose slightly.
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Volvo has a team that sifts through clues to find ways to make trucks safer.
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The latest traffic crash data compiled by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration shows that 37,461 lives were lost on U.S. roads in calendar year 2016 – marking a significant increase of 5.6% over the same period in 2015.
Read More →David Cullen takes you to The Badger State, where the state DOT is determined to change the human culture around highway safety for the better, in his Passing Zone blog.
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Three DOT agencies and the National Safety Council have teamed up to launch a new initiative with the goal of eliminating traffic deaths on U.S. roads within the next 30 years, and truck safety is one of the targeted areas of the effort.
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Preliminary data released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on July 1 shows a 7.7% rise in motor-vehicle traffic deaths last year. NHTSA said an estimated 35,200 people died in 2015, up from the 32,675 reported fatalities in 2014.
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