A new study, listed below, by the Insurance Institute for highway safety shows that rear truck Underride Protection guards are inadequate and collisions as above the catastrophic damage that they do so often in the United States never should.

There are many reasons that tractor trailer in the rear taken, sometimes cars it is the fault cars, sometimes it's the truck error. I have treated many of these cases, if you have determined that it was the truck error. But the third-party involved in this collision, the 800 pound gorilla, which is not familiar with truck cases the trailer manufacturer is often overlooked by lawyers. Why should they be included? Trailer manufacturers have know since at least the 1970s (that I know personally) as you reduce wake the heavy of these collisions by a solid rear underrun protection at minimum cost and effort of which have done nothing.

So what are the IIHS report March 1, 2011 (link to study here), your attention become? In a 35 MPH collision would the guards "buckle or break away from the trailers - with deadly follow [for the occupants of cars]." Europe and Canada have greater standards that protect the occupants of the car from persons compartment intrusion.

So a car in a 35 mph impact looks guard like weak skid with a trailer with a maximum:

A car in a 35 mph impact with a strong rear underrun protection guard looks like this:

Act as industry steadfastly refuses to, I can only hope that the IIHS Government responds positively s petition for more skid wake.

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