LEXINGTON, Ky. — The Truck Safety Coalition (TSC) recently announced its partnership with the Lexington Police Department (LPD) in Lexington, Kentucky, in hopes of raising awareness of underride safety. With its nationwide initiative on road safety, TRUCK (Training to Renew Underride Crash Knowledge), the series is moving forward.
The first training session was held on May 23 in Lexington.
Underride crashes, which is when a passenger vehicle slides under a tractor-trailer, sometimes resulting in catastrophic injuries and fatalities.
The Executive Director of Truck Safety Coalition, Zach Cahalan, stated, “Underride crashes represent a serious threat to public safety. Together, [TSC and LPD] we are taking proactive steps to mitigate the risks associated with these tragic crashes.”
The TRUCK Safety Roadshows series, which was made possible by the U.S. Department of Transportation grant funding, aims to improve the knowledge of Kentuckians by being able to identify an underride crash, providing proper documentation and correctly reporting it to law enforcement, according to a news release.
The news release also notes that the state of Kentucky’s truck crash fatalities have surged 88% since 2014. This is the rate despite underride crashes being chronically under-reported, according to the TSC.
For more information about TRUCK Safety Roadshows, please visit: www.trucksafety.org/trucksafetyroadshows
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very informative
Informative article about under carnage crashes it sounds as if the training may provide solutions to this problem