Truck accidents, including those involving huge commercial vehicles, can have serious consequences due to the trucks’ size and weight. These incidents frequently cause major property damage, injuries, and sometimes fatalities. In the U.S. alone, there are about 500,000 truck crashes each year. C...
This is not always achievable because of many different factors, including traffic in certain sections and poor conditions of weather. Nevertheless, because of pressure experienced by the drivers due to the challenge of meeting the deadlines and facing the worry of losing their jobs, drivers usually...
businesses, and residences are well maintained and clean. Some of the duties of these workers include maintaining grasses and lawns, removing weeds, trimming trees, bushes, and shrubs, watering plants, and raking leaves. Car crashes are the most common cause of death for grounds maintenance worke...
they are less likely to be able to avoid crashes by taking evasive action. Wandering motorists frequentlystray from traffic lanesand onto cycle paths without realizing it. Cyclists who do this also put themselves at a higher risk of injury than if they keep to the designated bike lanes. Theref...
Motor vehicle crashes are one of the leading causes of death in the U.S., accounting for 31% of all deaths in 2015. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that there were over 40,000 traffic-related fatalities in 2016 alone. ...
IntelliDrive is a suite of computer technologies and software applications that... Driver negligence is the Cause of Most Car Crashes A study by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety found that mistakes on the part of drivers are the cause of 94 percent of all car accidents, and about 87...
In fact, thanks to TxDot, we know the hours when most of the fatal and non-fatal traffic accidents occur. And using this information we can better understand our driving habits and when we need to be most alert... but, of course, you should always be alert on Texas roadways. ...
"Road traffic crashes can, to certain extent, be predicted. We know that if road is badly designed, if a car is badly maintained, of if drivers, or road users in general, don't know the rules, there's going to be crashes. We know also that we can act on these different elements ...
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute regarding the most common distraction of drivers on highways. The study shows that the most common cause of critical incidents and near crashes are the use of mobile phones and other wireless devices while ...
Traffic crashes are the leading cause of death on the job for driver/sales workers and truck drivers. 7. Refuse and recyclable material collectors Fatal injury rate for this occupation: 27.9 deaths per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers ...