Grieving families believe most of these crashes are preventable.
Lois Durso and Marianne Karth hold photos of their children who were killed in separate underride crashes involving semi-trucks.
“That rear underride guard came off, and the truck had hit us and spun us around,” Karth said. “And when we went backward, it’s back of the tractor-trailer ahead of us, the rear underride guard came off and the back of our car went under the truck.”The scene from a 2013 underride crash that killed 17-year-old Annaleah Karth and her 13-year-old sister, Mary.
It appoints a committee to look into side underride guards, but there is still no requirement for them, and we found most trucks do not have them installed. Crash tests show how the car on top bounces off the side of the trailer instead of going under it like the one without a guardThe industry has argued side guards are expensive to install and add weight to a truck which ends up costing more in fuel. Plus, some contend these are not effective at highway speeds.
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