A new study, listed below, by Insurance Institute for highway safety shows that trucks are insufficient rear underrun protection guards and collisions as shown above never should the catastrophic damage that have to do it so often in the United States.

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 they have determined that it was the truck error. But the third party involved in this collision of the 800 pound gorilla, which is the trailer manufacturer of lawyers that is often overlooked, not familiar with truck cases. Why should they be included? Because trailer manufacturers have since to know at least the 1970s (that I know personally) how to: reduce the heavy this collisions through a solid watch underrun protection at minimum cost and effort and nothing did.

So what did the IIHS report 1 become March 2011 (link to the study here), aware? The guards in a 35 MPH collision would "Buckle or break away from the trailers - with fatal consequences [for the occupants of cars]." Europe and Canada have stronger standards, that to protect the occupants of the car from the passenger compartment Eindringungen.

So a car in an impact sees guard 35 mph with a trailer with a weak skid as follows:

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

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

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