U.S. can do better than simply adopt Canada's rear underride guard standard

U.S. can do better than simply adopt Canada’s rear underride guard standard
IIHS
2/28/16

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in December issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to require stronger underride guards to stop passenger vehicles from sliding underneath the backs of trailers and semitrailers in rear-end crashes. The notice responds to the Institute’s petition to improve rear underride guards, as well as a 2014 request from the Truck Safety Coalition and Marianne Karth, a North Carolina mother whose daughters AnnaLeah, 17, and Mary, 13, died in an underride crash in 2013