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Trucks in Canada: "They Suck"

By Peopleslawyer

Or so says Sgt. Ray Boldt in British Columbia. From canada.com:

Among 28,700 injuries and 460 fatalities from vehicle crashes in 2005, heavy-commercial-vehicle crashes (including those involving buses) injured more than 1,550 people and killed 82, according to the Insurance Corporation of B.C.

A Transport Canada study in 2004 showed that truck crashes are responsible for a much higher rate of death and injury than accidents caused by passenger vehicles: eight fatalities per 10,000 vehicles compared with 1.5 per 10,000 for all vehicles combined.

The death toll from big-rig crashes makes up 18 per cent of all fatal collisions in the province.

It's not just an epidemic of safety here in the U.S. Go here for more.

Full post as published by A Georgia Lawyer on January 22, 2008 (boomark / email).