Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance Releases 2017 Operation Safe Driver Week Results
For the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance's (CVSA) Operation Safe Driver Week,
According to the
During Operation Safe Driver Week, law enforcement agencies throughout
The top five warnings/citations issued to CMV drivers were:
1. State/Local Moving Violations – 84.2 percent (of warnings/citations)
2. Speeding – 7.4 percent
3. Failure to Use Seat Belt – 2.6 percent
4. Failure to Obey Traffic Control Device – 2.5 percent
5. Using a Handheld Phone – 0.8 percent
The top five warnings/citations issued to passenger vehicle drivers were:
1. Speeding – 43.5 percent (of warnings/citations)
2. State/Local Moving Violations – 36.2 percent
3. Failure to Use Seat Belt – 9.4 percent
4. Failure to Obey Traffic Control Device – 2.3 percent
5. Improper Lane Change – 1.5 percent
The following is a closer look at this year's Operation Safe Driver Week traffic enforcement results:
- A total of 38,878 citations/warnings were issued to CMV drivers.
- A total of 20,315 citations/warnings were issued to passenger vehicle drivers.
- 30,714 warnings and 8,164 citations were recorded for CMV drivers.
- 7,785 warnings and 12,530 citations were recorded for passenger vehicle drivers.
- 43.5 percent of passenger vehicle driver warnings/citations were issued for speeding, versus 7.4 percent of CMV driver warnings/citations.
- When it comes to distracted driving, 0.1 percent of CMV driver warnings/citations were for texting and 0.8 percent were for using a handheld phone. For passenger vehicle drivers, 0.7 percent of warnings/citations were for texting and 0.5 percent were for using a handheld phone.
- For both CMV drivers (2.6 percent) and passenger vehicle drivers (9.4 percent) failure to wear a seat belt was the third most cited traffic enforcement violation for each group.
- Less than one percent of warnings/citations for CMV drivers (0.6 percent) and passenger vehicle drivers (0.9 percent) were for following too closely.
- 16 CMV drivers received a warning/citation for using/equipping a CMV with a radar detector.
- A small percentage of warnings/citations were for inattentive or careless driving – 0.2 percent of CMV drivers and 1.3 percent of passenger vehicle drivers.
- 19 CMV drivers received a citation for operating their vehicle while ill or fatigued; 86 received a warning.
"Countless lives are tragically lost on our roadways due to unsafe, risky, inattentive or careless acts by drivers," said CVSA Executive Director
The Operation Safe Driver Program aims to combat the number of deaths and injuries resulting from crashes involving large trucks, buses and passenger vehicles through educational and enforcement strategies in an effort to improve the driving behaviors of all drivers operating in an unsafe manner, either in or around commercial motor vehicles.
For more information on CVSA's Operation Safe Driver Program, visit http://www.operationsafedriver.org.
Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2017/12/prweb15006632.htm
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