{"text":"\"The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance has asked U.S. Senate appropriators to include funding in the 2020 transportation bill for a study that would explore the causes for commercial vehicle crashes, an update to a similar study completed 16 years ago.\n\nIn an Aug. 6 letter to the leadership of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, Collin Mooney, CVSA’s executive director, said the study would identify the root causes of crashes involving commercial vehicles — including large trucks and buses — to assist in the design of enforcement and safety programs.\n\n“The last large truck crash causation study was conducted from 2001-2003,” Mooney wrote. “Since that time, technology, drug usage and passenger and commercial motor vehicle safety features have drastically altered highway safety, and crash causation needs to be re-examined through a new study.”\n\nMooney said an in-depth crash causation study identifies such root causes of crashes as distracted driving and poor mechanical fitness and maintenance.\n\nFor example, Mooney said a typical crash report would only state that a driver failed to yield at a stop sign, resulting in a crash. However, a comprehensive, in-depth study could find that the driver didn’t start applying the brakes early enough because he was distracted by a cellphone, or that a vehicle’s brakes were not functioning properly, extending stopping distance.\n\nRead more: https://www.ttnews.com/articles/cvsa-asks-senate-fund-updated-major-crash-causation-study\"","videos":"[]","link":"{}","pics":"[]","canComment":true}
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