NORTH BAY - Ever wonder why northern roads are so dangerous?
OPP are investigating a transport truck that lost two tires on Nov. 17 between Hearst and North Bay.
The driver is charged with operate unsafe vehicle."
See: Transport Truck related fatalities skyrocketing in 2018
The northeast has seen fatal transport incidents go from one in the first six months of 2017 to nine in from January to early July 2018.
Vince Hawkes, the OPP commissioner, says the OPP has never been more committed to its Commercial Motor Vehicle Collision Mitigation Strategy.
“We continue to work diligently with our road safety and trucking industry partners toward our goal of reducing the number of transport truck collisions on our roads,” said Hawkes in a release.
Among the 1,342 fatal motor vehicle collisions on OPP-patrolled roads between 2012 and 2016, 266 involved transport trucks say the OPP.
During the same five-year period, 330 people died. The majority of victims were occupants of other involved vehicles.
According to OPP data, 44 of the crash victims were drivers of the transport trucks, compared to 286 victims who were in cars and other smaller vehicles.
More recent data reveals that over the past three years, a significant number of collisions were caused by transport trucks in poor operating condition. Between July 2014 and June 2017, 344 collisions involved defective transport trucks, six of which were fatal and 37 of which resulted in injuries.
- BayToday.ca