A whopping 8.15% of all truck crashes were due to driver fatigue according to data gathered by the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) and the General Estimates System (GES), which is maintained, by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA).
The National Transportation Safety Board recommendation that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration create a plan to set up devices in commercial trucks that will reduce the occurrence of fatigue-related accidents. The FMCSA is currently involved in the development of a “North American Fatigue Management Program for Commercial Motor Carriers.” This project is a collaborative effort “aimed at reducing fatigue-related accidents and decreasing the personal and economic cost to drivers, companies, and worker’s compensation programs and insurance carriers.”
Have you or someone you know been involved in a Florida truck accident due to truck driver fatigue?
