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Cancer Moonshot vs. No Crash Injuries Moonshot


Cancer Moonshot vs. No Crash Injuries Moonshot

April, 2016

Dear Care for Crash Victims Community Members:

What is the difference between President Obama creating a Cancer Moonshot – but not a Crash Injury Moonshot?  

1.  Cancer does not have a lobby against government action.

2.  Crash Injuries have a huge lobby against government action.  This despite the fact that an end to crash injuries is within sight – in a decade.

The “Strange Indifference to Highway Carnage” continues at the highest levels of the U.S. government.  Seehttp://www.fairwarning.org/2012/09/a-strange-indifference-to-highway-carnage/
Lou

 

Corporate Crime Reporter Interview of Ben Kelley on Death by Rental Car

Dear Care for Crash Victims Community Members:

Please read this to better understand how rigged things are in America against crash victims. http://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/news/200/ben-kelley-on-death-by-rental-car/

As you read it remember that taxpayers bailed out Chrysler.

Lou

The Voice of a Crash Victim


The Voice of a Crash Victim

April, 2016

Dear Care for Crash Victims Community Members:

The most important challenge we face is how do we help get the voices of victims heard and heeded!

Marianne Karth’s latest post:

“We can do better than continue to put our heads in the sand and think that these horrific, preventable, tragic deaths will go away by handling these problems the same old way.

What is being done now to address traffic safety issues is just not working: Senate Prepares To Make Truck Safety Even Worse, Advocates Warn
If you could walk in my shoes (and those of the hundreds of thousands of other Americans who have lost loved ones this way) and bear the unnecessary grief on a daily basis, then you might be able to understand the frustration of knowing that something better could be done about this–but ISN’T.

Are you listening, Congress, everyone involved in the trucking industry and traffic safety advocacy, and especially, right now, President Obama?!

Life & Death Traffic Safety Problems Deserve Proper Treatment: Not Political Tug-of-War Game!”

 

Corruption As A Right???


Corruption As A Right???

April, 2016

Dear Care for Crash Victims Community Members:
Resources for fighting for safety:  
Law article and NY Times Editorial:
Book on how our safety is bought:
Conference on how we can fight back against Big Money and Power:https://www.breakingthroughpower.org/
Lou

 

Truck Safety Tests by IIHS – Important to Workers

Truck Safety Tests by IIHS – Important to Workers

April, 2016

Dear Care for Crash Victims Community Members:

An excellent article, showing a video of an IIHS crash test, conveys the importance of truck safety to workers and companies.

“Both consumers and businesses should pay attention to the IIHS tests, safety experts said.

“These ratings are terribly important,” said Clarence Ditlow, executive director of the Center for Auto Safety. “If I was a fleet manager, I would make sure I had my workers in the safest one. It also will save companies money over the long run.”

Beyond preventing injury, using safer vehicles reduces lost work time, workers’ compensation insurance claims and liability risk, Ditlow said.”  See

https://www.trucks.com/2016/04/12/ford-f-150-pickup-truck-earns-top-safety-rating/

The National Safety Council’s 2015 Injury Facts reports that at work about 1,500 motor vehicle deaths and 100,000 injuries occur each year.  The NSC estimates the economic costs to be nearly $24 billion in 2013.

That is about 4 motor vehicle deaths at work per day in the U.S.A. today.

The silence on this tragically preventable problem of American workers from President Obama, presidential candidates, and the media is deafening.

When will enough be enough?

Lou