NTSB Proposes New Safety Recommendations

Sandy Grinnell — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:41:00 GMT

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has proposed new safety recommendations for the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA).

The NTSB reviewed two separate accidents in which a truck towing a trailer full of acetylene tanks overturned, one in Louisiana and the other in Colorado. In both accidents the acetylene tanks were ejected from their trailer. Then they caught fire due to either the valves were wither broken off when thrown from the trailer, or melted from the resulting fire.

The NTSB has made the following safety recommendation to the PHMSA:

Modify 49 Code of Federal Regulations173.301 to clearly require (1) that cylinders be securely mounted on mobile acetylene trailers and other trailers with manifolded cylinders to reduce the likelihood of cyliners being ejected during and accident and (2) that the cylider valves, piping and finttils be protected from mulitdirectional impact forces that are likely to occur during highway accidents, including rollovers. (H-09-1)

It is somewhat perplexing that these types of safety recommendations are even necessary when you would think that common sense would have prevailed long ago. How can one not know that speeding down the highway with acetelyne tanks on a trailer would be a potentially dangerous situation and that extra safety precautions should be taken?

Originally posted at InjuryBoard by Sandy Grinnell

National Teen Driver Safety Week

Sandy Grinnell — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:22:00 GMT

Mark V. Rosenker, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Acting Chairman, kicked off National Teen Driver Safety Week with the following statement:

"Highway crashes involving young drivers will remain a
serious and persistent problem unless concrete and
comprehensive steps are taken," said Rosenker. "Our young
people are this Nation's most valuable resource and too many
of them are being killed and injured."

The theme for this year's NTSB Teenage Driver Safety Week," Passengers", will focus the attention on Graduated License Requirement (GDL) Programs implemented by many states and the limits placed on the number of passengers allowed to ride with inexperienced drivers. Investigators found a direct correlation between the number of teenage passengers riding with teenage drivers and the increased risk of teenage car crashes.

The U.S. Congress began Teenage Driver Safety Week last year in an effort to reduce the number of teenage deaths and injuries resulting from teenage driver auto accidents.

Originally posted at InjuryBoard by Sandy Grinnell

Orlando Personal Injury Lawyer - NTSB

NTSB Proposes New Safety Recommendations

National Teen Driver Safety Week