FMCSA Crash-Fault Study Due Soon
A long-awaited Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration study looking at how federal regulators can assess fault for truck crashes on motor carrier Compliance, Safety, Accountability records has been completed, along with a peer review, and is expected to be released soon, a top agency official said.
In a briefing this week to the agency’s advisory CSA subcommittee, Joseph DeLorenzo, director of FMCSA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance, did not indicate when the report would be released but said FMCSA has analyzed more than 100,000 crash reports and still believes crash involvement itself is a strong predictor of future crashes.
One of the primary research objectives has centered on whether police accident reports are a sufficient, consistent and reliable source of information on which to base a weighted crash system.
