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Worst 10 states for winter fatal traffic crashes
Most of the nation’s winter fatal traffic crashes happen where you might least expect them.
There are more than 7,000 fatal traffic collisions recorded each winter in the U.S., according to 2019 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration records. However, most fatal vehicle collisions in the winter aren’t in places like Colorado or New Hampshire, where winter storms are a way of life. Rather, they mostly occur in states not associated with dangerous driving conditions like snow and ice.
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Most dangerous highway stretches for US truckers
These are the top five most dangerous highway stretches in the U.S., based on data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Fatality Analysis Reporting System (NHTSA-FARS).
Related: Scariest tunnels for truckers
US Highway 93, ArizonaThis highway covers a stretch of 200 miles in Arizona that many drivers use to travel between Las Vegas and Phoenix. More specifically, it runs from Wickenburg, Arizona, to the Hoover Dam...
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Stay alert and slow down through work zones
Large trucks are involved in one-third of all fatal crashes in work zones, according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA). The agency issued a press release last week detailing its findings, and urging drivers to stay alert, obey traffic signs and allow all vehicles extra space around them.
“Around most parts of the country, there’s two seasons: winter and construction,” said Reliance Partners Director of Safety Brian Runnels.
Traffic cones and warning signs are supposed to...
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Investigative: KeepTruckin fights NTSB bid to remove its ELD technology in wake of crash
Nearly three months after the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) called for KeepTruckin’s electronic logging technology to be removed from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s list of self-certified providers, the San Francisco-based company is fighting to clear its name.
KeepTruckin filed a petition for reconsideration with the NTSB in late January, calling for the independent agency to rescind its recommendation that the FMCSA remove KeepTruckin’s electronic logging...
Grandparents file wrongful death lawsuit against driver, trucking company
The paternal grandparents of a 10-year-old girl killed in a tractor-trailer crash in Kansas that also killed her mother and three siblings have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the trucking company and one of its drivers.
Mark and Carrie Brady of Mulvane, Kansas, filed suit in Sedgwick County District Court on Tuesday against L.B. White Trucking Inc. of Wellington, Kansas, and its truck driver, Andrew Specht, 31, of Argonia, Kansas.
Ronald L. White, president of L.B. White Trucking, did not...
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Carrier ties bankruptcy to soaring insurance rates, fatal crash
Deluxe Express Inc. of Plainfield, Illinois, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Wednesday, citing soaring insurance rates after one of its drivers was involved in a fatal crash on Interstate 80 near Laramie, Wyoming, in March 2019.
Deluxe Express and another motor carrier have been named in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a man killed in the deadly pileup involving three trucking companies.
In its filing with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of...
Family of Wyoming man killed in truck crash sues driver, carrier
The family of a man killed two years ago in a tractor-trailer crash on Interstate 80 in Albany County, Wyoming, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a North Carolina trucking company and one of its former drivers.
Vidal Madera, 57, of Laramie, Wyoming, died when Tonya Hightower, 48, of Wichita, Kansas, lost control of her rig while traveling westbound on I-80 around 5:15 a.m. on March 21, 2018, drove through the median and hit Madera, who was driving a 2001 Chevy Cavalier in the eastbound...
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