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UNKNOWN UNKNOWN — VISIBILITY

99 fatalcrash99 injured · 1991633 · 2024-05-15

Vehicle

Make
UNKNOWN
Model
UNKNOWN
Year
Manufacturer
UNKNOWN MANUFACTURER
Component
VISIBILITY

Severity

Deaths
99
Injured
99
Fire
No
Crash
Yes
Police report
No
Medical attention
Yes
Vehicle towed
No

Narrative

The viewing angles of trucks and SUVs has slowly gotten worse in the U.S. While a sedan might have 1-2 feet of blind spot immediately in front of the bumper, a truck like the Chevy Silverado or Ford Expedition have blind spots up to 10 feet in front of them. Despite this obvious safety implication of this design, no special class license is required to drive these vehicles. As these vehicles are increasingly produced, marketed, and purchased, there has been a corresponding increase in child fatalities in run-over incidents. Given that children are eight times more likely to die when struck by an SUV or truck compared to when hit by passenger cars [XXX] ), large SUVs and trucks represent a serious systemic failure and safety hazard to the general public. The NHTSA should regulate the size and viewing angle of vehicles in order to mitigate this risk. On average, two children die every day in car crashes in the U.S. and while _occupant_ safety has increased for large vehicles, the size and weight increase has marked a sharp drop in safety for _non-occupants_ including pedestrians and cyclists: Tall trucks and SUVs are 45% deadlier to pedestrians than shorter vehicles [XXX] ). If the NHTSA believes seat belts saved 374,276 lives from 1975-2017 (about 8,911 lives/year), regulating trucks and SUVs to protect pedestrians should be an obvious next step. Note: The form below will not allow me to put a higher number than 99 fatalities. But in 2021 alone, there were over 7,000 pede

Source

Authoritative
NHTSA ODI Flat-File Downloads
ODI Number
11588812
Machine
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