Washington — The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is looking for touch upon doubtlessly increasing a program meant to decide to what extent crashes involving industrial vehicles and buses are preventable.
Adjusting the Crash Preventability Determination Program would assist FMCSA “review even more crashes each year,” the company says in a discover revealed within the April 13 Federal Register. “The use of more preventability information in assessing motor carriers will provide an improved indication of a motor carrier’s crash risk.”
FMCSA established this system in May 2020. The company opinions crashes categorized beneath 16 sorts whereas modifying info in its Safety Measurement System to delineate non-preventable crashes.
The proposal would add 4 new crash sorts:
- Commercial motor automobiles struck on the aspect by a driver working in the identical course
- CMVs struck as a result of one other driver was coming into the roadway from a non-public driveway or car parking zone
- CMVs struck as a result of one other driver misplaced management of their automobile
- Any different kind of crash involving a CMV wherein video demonstrates the sequence of occasions
Additionally, FMCSA wants to modify 11 current crash sorts “to broaden” them and “allow more crashes to be eligible.” The proposed adjustments would double this system’s dimension, FMCSA says.
Between May 1, 2020, and Dec. 30, FMCSA acquired greater than 39,000 requests for knowledge overview, the discover states. About 72.5% of the requests fell beneath an current class, with roughly 96% of crashes categorized as “not preventable.”
Comments on the proposal are due June 12.
