Fatigue a main factor in just 6 percent of truck wrecks

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EU study: Fatigue a main factor in just 6 percent of truck wrecks

A major study released recently by the European Union shows that only 6 percent of 624 truck wrecks were blamed on fatigued truck drivers. The study was paid for by the European Commission and the International Road Transport Union, and looked at statistically representative truck crashes in France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Spain.

The study found that human factors were a main cause in 85 percent of wrecks involving trucks, cars and pedestrians.

However, out of the accidents linked to human error, only 25 percent are caused by the truck driver, the study said. Based on the 624 accidents in the database, fatigue was the main cause in only 6 percent of the accidents.

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