Trailer’s underride guard failes test

Crashes into the back of large tractor-trailers, caused by failing underride. The underride guards on the back of tractor-trailers have not been keeping vehicles safe from sliding beneath a truck’s trailer in a crash, according to the Institute.

A vehicle windshield is crushed resulting in life-threatening head and neck injuries, even decapitation, according to the institute, which is financed by the insurance industry.

Most guards fail to prevent potentially fatal underride, the institute found. In a current crash tests, a 2010 Chevrolet Malibu hit a parked truck at 35 m.p.h. The Malibu is an insurance institute Top Safety Pick and it did a good job of protecting the crash test dummy in the institute’s 40 m.p.h. moderate overlap frontal crash test. Serious injuries to a person in that type of real-world crash would be unlikely.

When the guards failed, head and neck injuries were so high that a driver in a real-world crash would have died, according to the report.

The more a car moves to the right or left of the center line of trailer, “the less effective the guards are,” said David Zuby, the institute’s chief research officer.

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Every year in the state of New York there are many motor vehicle accident on its roads, highway and interstates. Truck accidents commonly involving tractor trailers. A rear underride collision is a type of accident only associated with large trucks.

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