NTSB Calls for Collision-Avoidance Systems

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he National Transportation Safety Board has again called for the installation of collision avoidance technology on new large trucks following its investigation of a 2003 accident that involved a tractor-trailer and several passenger cars at a toll booth in Illinois.

The agency also urged federal officials to develop highway design standards to reduce the number of crashes at toll plazas.

The 2003 crash occurred when the driver of the truck “failed to slow for traffic as he approached the queue” at a toll plaza on Interstate 90, NTSB said in a statement. Eight people died.

If the truck had “been equipped with a collision warning system, the technology might have prevented the accident,” NTSB said.

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