FMCSA to Further Examine Data From Crash Causation Study

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n the wake of a report last month on crashes involving large trucks, a spokesman for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said the agency plans to further examine the role legal drug use, drivers’ hours of service and speed may play in such accidents.

“We’ll be doing further analysis on the data to test which factors are associated with increasing the risk of a crash,” Ian Grossman told Transport Topics.

FMCSA’s Large Truck Causation Study found that among truck drivers, prescription drug use was an “associated factor” in 28.7% of all crashes sampled, and over-the-counter drugs were an associated factor 19.4% of the time.

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