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Deaths in truck crashes keep rising as your government ignores safety solutions
Updated Jan 29, 2021;
Posted Jan 24, 2021
Truckers gas up at Love s truck stop in Bordentown in March 3, 2019, as snow begins to fall.Michael Mancuso | NJ Advance Med
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WASHINGTON Whenever she talks about her mother, Renee Langiotti keeps tissues close by.
Her mother, Susan Bartholomay, was killed on a Florida interstate highway in May 2015 after the car she was riding in swerved to avoid a large truck that was drifting over. Her car collided with another vehicle and wound up wedged underneath the truck trailer.
Langiotti’s mother was one of 4,095 people who died in crashes involving large trucks in 2015 a number that swelled by 22% over the next four years.