Talking On Cell Phones May Soon Be Illegal For Truck Drivers
September 14, 2011
Although texting while driving is already illegal in the state of Tennessee, very soon, talking on cell phones may be illegal as well for truckers behind the wheel of commercial vehicles. News Channel 5 says the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) made recommendations earlier this week to the Federal Highway Administration (FHA) and others to ban the use of cell phones by truckers while behind the wheel.
The recommendations come in the wake of the discovery that a trucker was on his cell phone moments before a deadly 2010 crash in Munfordville, Kentucky, that killed the trucker and ten others, who were part of a Mennonite family in a passenger van traveling to a wedding in Iowa.
The NTSB chairmen said on Tuesday, because tractor-trailers can be so lethal on the highways when traveling at high speeds, they are also calling for tougher median barriers to be created. This decision was also made, in part, based on findings from the Munfordville crash. Experts found that the semi-truck plowed through cable barriers meant to stop vehicles, because of its size and weight.
Statistics show that it is because of the sheer size and weight of these trucks traveling at high speeds that make them so dangerous and deadly to the truck drivers and those in vehicles around them. Founding attorney, Lee Coleman, with the Tennessee Truck Accident Lawyers of Hughes & Coleman recently discussed the rules of dealing with a truck crash in an interview.
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