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The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is a federal organization in charge of investigating high profile highway, air, marine, train and pipeline accidents. The NTSB also makes recommendations to advance public and professional safety objectives.
A recent NTSB report on a 2010 Munfordville, KY tractor-trailer crash has shown how state and federal lawmakers need to move forward on a number of safety issues. These issues are dear to motorists who are concerned with the devastating damage of 18 wheeler crashes in Virginia.
The American Trucking Associations (ATA) fully supports the NTSB recommendations. ATA president and CEO Bill Graves declared, "We're encouraged that a number of the Board's recommendations fit with ATA's progressive safety agenda, which we put forward as a way of reducing crashes on our highways."
One of NTSB's recommendations is to ban the use of handheld cell phones for talking or texting by all motorists, not just truck drivers.
Referring to the widely recognized 2009 Virginia Tech study on cell phone use and driver distraction, Graves stressed the impact of reaching for a phone, dialing and texting on the crash rate. He acknowledged that hands-free cell phones are not nearly as dangerous because drivers can keep their eyes on the road.
Other NTSB recommendations include strategies to increase safety belt use as well as the federal oversight of new motor carriers and the implementation of the Compliance, Safety and Accountability program.
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