Georgia Crash Prompts Call for Collision Avoidance Mandate

A truck crash that killed five nursing students in Georgia is leading to renewed calls for mandating collision avoidance systems on heavy trucks.

Five Georgia Southern University nursing students were killed last Wednesday in a seven-vehicle crash on Interstate 16.

Truck driver John Wayne Johnson, 55, of Shreveport, Louisiana, failed to stop in time and crashed into traffic slowed on the interstate around 5:45 a.m. due to an earlier wreck. Seven vehicles, including two tractor trailers and five passenger cars, were involved in the crash.

Four of the students died at the scene. Three other students were taken to the hospital, where one died. Three other people were also injured in the crash.

The crash led Road Safe America founder Stephen Owings to renew his call for Congress and the federal government to require collision-avoidance systems in all tractor-trailer trucks, reports WSB-TV 2 in Atlanta.

In February, Owings’ Road Safe America joined with three other safety advocacy groups in petitioning the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to initiate a rulemaking that would require forward collision avoidance and mitigation braking (what they dubbed F-CAM) systems on all new trucks and buses rated at 10,000 pounds or more GVW. The lobbies argued that specific technology exists that would markedly reduce truck-related crashes if it were mandated on commercial vehicles.

Owings formed Road Safe America after his son Cullum died in 2002 when a truck failed to stop behind congested traffic.

Meanwhile, a wrongful death suit could be in the works. According to StatesboroHerald.com, an attorney representing the mother of one those killed has previously sued the trucking company involved, Total Transportation of Mississippi. Fried said the trucking company’s record “shows a systemic history of unsafe driving.”

WSBV-TV reports that according to DOT records, Total Transportation’s 740 vehicles have been involved in 85 other crashes over the last two years, leading to 27 injuries. Company drivers got citations in at least four of those crashes.

 

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49th Annual National Polka Festival in Ennis, Texas
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Accidents INCREASED With 2013 Restart Rules

Someone get the FMCSA on the phone! According to the results of a new study by American Transportation Research Institute, the 2013 restart rules that they claim made drivers safer may have actually been doing exactly the opposite.

Even before the restart rules went into effect, many drivers were saying what a bad idea the amended rules would be. Among other objections, drivers pointed out that it would force them onto roads during times of day when they’re the most crowded, causing increased traffic and creating more opportunities for accidents. Now that the data has been analyzed, it appears they were exactly right.

Using truck GPS information, the ATRI study shows that trucks were forced to drive more during the day and less at night. While this was actually an intended result of the restart rules, the effect it had was not. Exactly as truckers had predicted, the data showed a significant increase in accidents and traffic during the time that the restart rule was in effect.

The FMCSA has already commissioned their own study into the effects of their restart rules. This is the second such study they’ve commissioned since the first was highly criticized by the industry and members of congress, one congressman going so far as to call it “worthless.”

The problem is that – as the ATRI study shows – the negative impacts of the restart rules are only readily apparent when all of the millions of trucks on the road abide by them. A few hundred trucks taking part in a study won’t produce the same congestion and safety risks that the ATRI study shows, allowing the FMCSA to declare their rules “safe” and to subject our nation’s roadways to unnecessary risk once again in the name of safety.

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Hem, Haw, Sniff or Scurry?

From the book Who Moved My Cheese. Haw wrote 13 hand writings on the walls so that he could always be ready to find new cheese.  The cheese represents whatever you want most whether it be personal or professional.  Whether it be a big house on the hill or to find a better vendor than you have now.

1) Having cheese makes you happy.

2) What would you do if you weren’t afraid.

3) Smell the cheese often, so you know when it is getting old.

4) When you stop being afraid, you feel good.

5) Imagining yourself enjoying new cheese, leads you to it.

6) When you Change what you believe, you change what you do.

7) Change happens, they keep moving the cheese.

8) Anticipate change, get ready for the cheese to move.

9) Monitor change, smell the cheese often so you know when it’s getting old.

10) Adapt to change quickly, the quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you can enjoy new cheese.

11) Enjoy change, savor the adventure and enjoy the taste of new cheese.

12) Be ready to quickly change and enjoy it again, they keep moving the cheese.

13) Change and win, move with the cheese.

Sniff could smell out new cheese in a hurry, but not as fast as Scurry. As soon as Sniff smelled it out he would point out the direction Scurry and he would scurry to the new cheese station.  Both Sniff and Scurry were mice.  Hem was more interested in finding out why the old cheese was gone, hidden or taken. He was to afraid to go into the maze to look for new cheese.  Haw, like to write on walls and eventually learned that it could be fun to go into the maze to look for new cheese.   Hem and Haw were little people. Hem,Haw, Sniff and scurry lived in little houses next to each other.