HANDLING the TRUTH - Fleets use advanced technology to recreate accidents - and prevent them form happening

摘要

In June 2002, a driver for a Comcar Industries subsidiary was killed when his vehicle hit the rear of an articulated dump truck. Normally, a rear-end collision is evidence enough that the driver failed to control his speed and distance. Not this time. After the accident, Tom Lowe extracted the "black box" from an Eaton Vorad collision warning system in the truck. Upon review, the data revealed that the dump truck moved directly onto a two-lane 65 mph highway. The dump truck did not use an available acceleration lane, leaving the Comcar driver only 1.5 seconds to react.