A report by NTI based on the insurance specialist’s National Truck Accident Research Centre report on truck accidents, shows us that the reasons behind milk tanker accidents are more than just tanker slosh.
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All Care and No Responsibility – Driving Habits of Car Drivers
As anyone who regularly takes a truck out onto the highways and byways of Australia knows, the car is king and the driving habits of car drivers can be summed up as ‘all care and no responsibility’.
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Proof That Cars Cause Accidents
Here we have yet another video showing us what we already knew, proof that cars cause accidents between trucks and cars, most of the time. This dash cam footage is almost unexplainable, as the car decides to try and get in between the truck and its dog trailer.
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Just Slow Down a Bit
Truck drivers all over Australia would live in a safer environment if they could just slow down a bit. This is on of the conclusions we can draw from the latest report from NTARC on truck crashes in 2020 and their causes.
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Truck Crashes Went Down During the Pandemic
It is common knowledge in the trucking industry, but the the latest accident research has confirmed that the number of truck crashes went down during the pandemic.
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Quantifying and Investigating Truck Accidents
There are quite a few issues around quantifying and investigating truck accidents, some due to the vagaries of our adversarial ‘fed vs state’ system and others due to a lack of a real political will on the part of the authorities to tackle the truck trauma debate.
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Analysing Incident Figures
The National Truck Accident Research Centre (NTARC) report uses the data gathered by National Transport Insurance (NTI), analysing incident figures on all major accidents that go through its system. A major accident is defined as one costing over $50,000, and NTI recorded 848 of these in 2019, a large enough sample to get a real picture of what is going on out there on our roads.
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Analysing Truck Accident Data
The latest data about truck accidents around the country is going to be available yearly from now on aiding in the task of analysing truck accident data. Diesel talks to the report’s Author, Adam Gibson.
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Publicity Around the Truck Fire Issue Had an Impact
After a particularly worrying increase in non-impact fires in the National Truck Accident Research Centre 2013 survey results, a lot of publicity around the truck fire issue had an impact with many in the industry focusing on the issue. This resulted in improved numbers in the 2015 report results with a 20 per cent decrease in non-impact fires.
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Do the Research
The reception the latest truck accident figures received last week in the media is a timely reminder of how important it is to do the research and then use that research wisely in getting behaviour or policy change.
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