Many Trucking Accidents Can Be Prevented by Limiting Speeds

Every year 5,000 people die and more than 130,000 people are injured in trucking accidents. Road Safe America is working to reduce semi truck accidents by limiting the top speed of tractor-trailer trucks. As virtually every driver has experienced, many trucks travel at dangerously high speeds. We want a national rule that requires operational speed governors in trucks, limiting them to 65 miles an hour, with serious consequences for violators.

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Our highways are deadly. When tractor-trailers and cars collide in fatal trucking accidents, 98 percent of the deaths occur in the cars. It's clear why: for a car to equal the force of a tractor-trailer, which weighs 80,000 pounds, traveling at 60 mph, it would have to be speeding at over 300 mph. Limiting trucks to reasonable speeds will make our highways significantly safer while preserving truckers' important jobs.

Road Safe America Works to Prevent Semi Truck Accidents

In 2002, Steve and Susan Owings' son, was killed by a truck after a visit home for Thanksgiving. Since then, Road Safe America has been working to limit semi truck accidents by focusing on:

• Educating truck drivers and the public about the risks associated with trucks and passenger vehicles sharing our nation's highways, through printed materials and media campaigns.
• Enforcing speed limit laws by supporting law enforcement safety initiatives that prevent trucking accidents.
• Working with policymakers and elected officials to develop laws that will help prevent injury and loss of life on America's roadways due to semi truck accidents.
• Honoring the companies, officials and others who help us achieve our mission.