Why CSA 2010 and E-Logs are a good thing.

Cars
Many car accidents are also related to driver fatigue. The National Transportation Safety Board estimates that 52 percent of car accidents are caused by driver fatigue. In addition, driving fatigue accidents may account for 30 percent of traffic fatalities. Most traffic safety organizations admit that driver fatigue is an often-overlooked area of traffic safety. While many resources are devoted to drunk driving (which is a significant problem in its own right), driving fatigue gets less attention and fewer resources.

This is just on cars.

 

WHAT!!! You dont like my FOX news (they actually support the "Less Govt Intrusion" side of this thread)

CNN had Joan and the gals on(They wont go on FOX anymore)

But thats kewl,,,we all have a fav to listen to to get the news of the day

 

When I worked days - I'd say inattention was the biggest cause of the motor vehicle accidents I attended.

Night shift - definitely fatigue; not as much drunk driving as you might think. For a time I worked in an area where we covered two highways that got a lot of casino traffic. Guaranteed - between 1 - 5 AM we'd get some wrecks. Most of the time I would say it was less about drinking and more about people just plain falling asleep.

As far as the truck accidents I was involved with; hard to say if fatigue was a factor - but they were almost always due to inattentive driving or just bad decision making. By and large the trucks had the lowest fatality rate. Oddly enough I rarely saw truck vs. 4-wheeler accidents. They were either single truck rollovers or truck vs. truck.

 

That had to be devastating for that driver. Several years ago I was driving near my home and I heard a loud swish. I looked in my mirror just in time to see a 4 wheeler hit a straight truck head on. I never saw the car. She nearly hit me before hitting the truck. The driver was a mother and was killed instantly. They never figured out what happened. They speculate that she may have fallen asleep. It was mid morning on a clear day. Looking back it was very eerie. I had my window down a little so it was very loud as she passed me. I was so very lucky that I was not involved. Disaster can happen in a split second.

 

I don't spend much time dwelling on these things - but I do think about that kid every now and again. I really hope he was able to move on and not carry that burden with him; there was absolutely nothing he could have done to avoid it. The car swerved right in front of him. As I recall he left a ton of rubber on the road - he must have been standing on the brakes.

 

2009 NATIONAL STATISTICS ​

POLICE-REPORTED MOTOR VEHICLE TRAFFIC CRASHES Fatal ......................................................... 30,797 Injury......................................................... 1,517,000 PropertyDamageOnly........................................... 3,957,000 Total ....................................................... 5,505,000 TRAFFIC CRASH VICTIMS Killed Injured Occupants .................................................... 24,474 2,011,000 Drivers...................................................... 17,640 1,395,000 Passengers.................................................. 6,770 616,000 Unknown.................................................... 64 <500 Motorcyclists.................................................. 4,462 90,000 Nonoccupants................................................. 4,872 116,000 Pedestrians.................................................. 4,092 59,000 Pedalcyclists................................................. 630 51,000 Other/Unknown............................................... 150 7,000 Total......................................................... 33,808 2,217,000 OTHER NATIONAL STATISTICS VehicleMilesTraveled ........................................... 2,953,501,000,000 ResidentPopulation ............................................. 307,006,550 RegisteredVehicles ............................................. 258,957,503 LicensedDrivers................................................ 209,618,386 EconomicCostofTrafficCrashes(2000) (estimateforreportedandunreportedcrashes)........................ $230.6billion NATIONAL RATES: FATALITIES Fatalitiesper100MillionVehicleMilesTraveled ....................... 1.14 Fatalitiesper100,000Population................................... 11.01 Fatalitiesper100,000RegisteredVehicles............................ 13.06 Fatalitiesper100,000LicensedDrivers.............................. 16.13 NATIONAL RATES: INJURED PERSONS InjuredPersonsper100MillionVehicleMilesTraveled.................. 75 InjuredPersonsper100,000Population.............................. 722 InjuredPersonsper100,000RegisteredVehicles...................... 856 InjuredPersonsper100,000LicensedDrivers......................... 1,058
Sources:Crashes,Fatalities,Injuries,andCosts—NationalHighwayTrafficSafetyAdministration. Population—U.S.BureauoftheCensus. VehicleMilesTraveled—FederalHighwayAdministration. RegisteredVehicles—R.L.Polk&Co.andFederalHighwayAdministration.
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Traffic Safety Facts 2009
A Compilation of Motor Vehicle Crash Data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System and the General Estimates System
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
National Center for Statistics and Analysis
U.S. Department of Transportation Washington, DC 20590
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Information on traffic fatalities is available from the National Center for Statistics and Analysis, NVS-424, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE, Washington, DC 20590.
I am looking for more specific numbers.

 

Sorry not what I tried to post. There isn't any numbers on fatigue caused accident by 4 wheelers in my last post.

 

If there are 62 million cars and the same criteria is use as with trucks, the loss of life would be staggering. And yet, it is commercial trucks that are the focus of EOBR's and all those useless regulations. I would guess that there would be a higher percentage of fatalities associated with 4 wheelers than big trucks.

 

Fox news viewers are less informed about current events than people who don't even pay attention to the news. http://www.infowars.com/new-study-fox-news-viewers-less-informed-than-those-who-don%E2%80%99t-watch-news-at-all/ Fox news is a bastion of phoney, fraudlilent conservitism. They dish out the same pro-establishment propoganda as ABC, NBC, CBS or CNN and put up a fake front of conservatism. Television is not news, it's programming, they're programming minds...

 

Oh my, seems we lost you again.... It has NOTHING to do with safety. I thought that was clearly explained to you.

Chargeing more can be an option... but most if the work is under contract for years at a time... only when new contracts are bid for, and issued can this work.

I know your type, you want to make the same $ I do, but work half as much...(if you could get away with it)... Seen your kind come and go plenty.