MULTIVU VIDEO FEED: NEW IIHS STUDY SHOWS FRONT CRASH PREVENTION WORKS FOR LARGE TRUCKS TOO
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NEWS: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) finds forward collision warning and automatic emergency braking (AEB) systems could eliminate more than 2 out of 5 crashes in which a large truck rear-ends another vehicle
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STORY SUMMARY:
Equipping large trucks with forward collision warning and automatic emergency braking (AEB) systems could eliminate more than 2 out of 5 crashes in which a large truck rear-ends another vehicle, a new study from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety suggests.
IIHS Director of Statistical Services Eric Teoh examined data on crashes per vehicle mile traveled from 62 carriers operating tractor-trailers and other trucks weighing at least 33,000 pounds. He found that trucks equipped with forward collision warning had 22 percent fewer crashes and trucks with AEB had 12 percent fewer crashes than those without either technology. Forward collision warning and AEB reduced rear-end crashes -- the specific type of collision they're designed to prevent -- by 44 and 41 percent, respectively.
Although their drivers crash less often per mile traveled, large trucks can be especially deadly because they can weigh 20-30 times as much as passenger vehicles. U.S. crashes involving large trucks have risen by nearly a third since hitting an all-time low in 2009, killing 4,136 people in 2018. Among those fatalities, 119 deaths resulted from large trucks rear-ending passenger vehicles.
B-ROLL INCLUDES: Demonstration tests of large truck with and without AEB and other related footage
SOURCE: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
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/PRNewswire -- Sept. 3, 2020/
SOURCE Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
