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Since 2011, the number of serious large truck crashes has increased 33 percent. Persistent supply chain issues since 2020 have accelerated this upward trend. Federal regulators have repeatedly watered down key safety rules. For example, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has relaxed the HOS (hours of service) requirement several times, thus allowing more drowsy …
Few details were available after a violent collision killed an 18-year-old high school senior and her 14-year-old sister. The wreck occurred on State Highway 4, at the intersection of Five Points Road. The two girls were declared dead at the scene after the car they were riding in pulled in front of an oncoming semi-truck. …
Although almost no details about the accident were available, investigators insist that a passenger car was responsible for a serious collision in the ATL. According to police investigators, a woman driving a blue car lost control of her vehicle as she traveled eastbound on the Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway. She crossed the center line and …
As of the fall of 2021, the worst of the corona virus pandemic seems to be over. Yet the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, which is supposed to be a safety watchdog, continues to roll back safety laws, citing the effects of the pandemic. Some of these changes include waiving some HOS (Hours of Service) …
Despite opposition from safety groups, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration recently rolled back some key safety rules. The agency redefined a “short haul driver.” Previously, truckers who covered fewer than 100 miles could drive for only twelve hours at a time. Now, these limits are 150 miles and fourteen hours. Short haul drivers have …
Five individuals are dead, and several others are injured, after a head-on crash involving a passenger car full of people and a Metro Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority bus. One investigator said the incident was “the worst accident that I have come across” in twenty-five years as an Atlanta police officer. For unknown reasons, a Nissan …
