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Public Comments on the Side Guard ANPRM (Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking)

NHTSA closed the Public Comment Period on the Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) for side underride guards on July 20, 2023. NHTSA asked commenters to respond to these nine questions. Here’s where the comments are posted: Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for Side Underride Guards. To make it easier to read through the thousands of comments, I’m providing pdfs and/or links to many of them — although it’s not an exhaustive compilation.

Links to Many of the Public Comments on the Side Guard ANPRM

Public Comments on the Side Guard ANPRM – As of June 16, 2023 (119)

The majority of comments (over 1,000) posted from June 16 through June 23 were from individuals and organizations which support the requests in the Public Comment from the League of American Bicyclists – calling for pedestrians and bicyclists to be included in the data for side guard regulatory analysis. (Motorcyclists are vulnerable to underride as well.)

Some-of-the-Public-Comments-on-the-Side-Guard-ANPRM-June-24-July-22-2023.pdf

The Following are Links to Individual Public Comments (which were submitted as or with attachments):

Eric Hein

Institute for Safer Trucking IST-Comment-on-Side-Underride-PC-Final.pdf

Truck Safety Coalition TSC-Comment-on-ANPRM.pdf

Perry Ponder/Seven Hills Engineering

Wabash National (Trailer Manufacturer) Wabash-comment-on-ANPRM.pdf

Werner Enterprises Wermer-Enterprises-Comment-on-ANPRM.pdf

Safety Research & Strategies Safety-Research-Strategies-Comment-on-ANPRM.pdf

National Waste & Recycling Association Waste-and-Recycling-Comment-on-ANPRM.pdf

Lois Durso Lois-Durso-Comment-on-ANPRM.pdf

Mark Hawkins Mark-Hawkins-Comment-on-ANPRM.pdf

American Trucking Associations (ATA) ATA-Comment-on-ANPRM.pdf

Owner Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) OOIDA-Comment-on-ANPRM.pdf

Chicago Department of Transportation Chicago-DOT-Comment-on-ANPRM-1.pdf

Fortier/PHSS

Coalition of Intermodal Associations Intermodal-Association-Comment-on-ANPRM.pdf

Andy Young Andy-Young-Comment-on-ANPRM.pdf

Consumer Reports Consumer-Reports-Comment-on-ANPRM.pdf

Elisa Braver Elisa-Braver-Comment-on-ANPRM.pdf

Aaron Kiefer/Collision Safety Consulting 

American Truck Dealers American-Truck-Dealers-Comment-on-ANPRM.pdf

Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (Matt Brumbelow) IIHS-Comment-on-ANPRM.pdf

National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) NAMIC-Comment-on-ANPRM.pdf

Advocates for Highway & Auto Safety Advocates-for-Highway-Auto-Safety-ANPRM-FINAL.pdf

Truck Sail Truck-Sail-Comment-on-ANPRM.pdf

Association of Pedestrian & Bicycle Professionals Association-of-Pedestrian-and-Bicycle-Professionals-Comment-on-ANPRM.pdf

Jay Hightman The-Robyn-Hightman-Foundation-Comment-on-ANPRM.pdf

City of Boston Transportation Cabinet City-of-Boston-Transportation-Cabinet-Comment-on-ANPRM.pdf

Montgomery County Families for Safe Streets Montgomery-County-Families-for-Safe-Streets-Comment-on-ANPRM.pdf

Association of Pedestrian & Bicycle Professionals Association-of-Pedestrian-and-Bicycle-Professionals-Comment-on-ANPRM.pdf

Massachusetts Vision Zero Coalition Massachusetts-Vision-Zero-Coalition-Comment-on-ANPRM.pdf

National Association of Trailer Manufacturers National-Assn-of-Trailer-Mfrs-Comment-on-ANPRM.pdf

Jerry Karth Jerry-Karth-Comment-ANPRM.pdf

Comment from Jerry & Marianne Karthattachments:

According to the federal rulemaking process, the next step is for NHTSA (and that will include the Advisory Committee on Underride Protection)to begin reviewing and evaluating the comments which have been submitted from the public. Now is the time for the development of a recommendation to the Secretary of Transportation as to whether a side guard regulation would be cost effective.

In other words, now is the time to finally determine that safety is an acceptable cost of doing business and Death By Underride is an unacceptable, unreasonable, and preventable risk for all road users. At least, that’s what I think.

In Memory of Michael Doran (July 20, 2023)

An Ithaca man died Thursday afternoon after crashing head-on into a semi in Arcada Township. . .

According to authorities, the Ithaca man—identified as 71-year-old Michael Doran from Ithaca—was driving southbound when he crossed the center line and hit a semi traveling northbound. Gratiot County driver dies after crashing head-on into semi

Because the bottom of a truck is higher than the bumper of passenger vehicles, when there is a collision the smaller vehicle easily slides under the truck and the first point of impact is the windshield. Seatbelts, airbags, and car crumple zones do not function as intended in underride crashes —frontside, and rear — leaving passenger vehicle occupants vulnerable to life-threatening injuries.

Michael Doran, Precious One Gone Too Soon

See Underride Crash Memorials posted here and at #STOPunderrides Tweets. To add photos or more information on this story or to add other underride crashes to be remembered, send an email to underridemap@gmail.com. Please use this Interactive Underride Crash Map Crash Location Input Form to provide us with accurate information . (Note: the map is currently not online; but we would keep the information for future updating and to aid in underride advocacy efforts.)

How You Can Help

Support improving Underride Protection on trailers: Contact your legislators with this User-Friendly TAKE ACTION online tool.

Please sign this petitionSecretary Pete, It’s Past Time To End Death By Underride!

Note: In order to raise awareness and preserve the memories of underride victims — precious ones gone too soon — I have been writing memorial posts on what could potentially be underride crashes. I am not a crash reconstructionist, and I do not have all the facts on these crashes; but underride should be investigated as a potential factor in truck crash injuries and deaths.

We are asking that people send us crash reports for collisions with trucks which they suspect involved underride. Send them to marianne@annaleahmary.com. We will submit these as complaints to USDOT. Read more here: Launching a Campaign To Flood NHTSA With Underride Complaint Reports.

In Memory of Justin Lynn & Colten Stewart (July 14, 2023)

They say a semi driver failed to stop and hit the back of a pickup truck that was stopped behind another semi.

Troopers say the pickup caught fire, and the two men inside, 22-year-old Justin Lynn and 24-year-old Colten Stewart, of Cisne, were killed. 2 Wayne Co. men killed in crash

Because the bottom of a truck is higher than the bumper of passenger vehicles, when there is a collision the smaller vehicle easily slides under the truck and the first point of impact is the windshield. Seatbelts, airbags, and car crumple zones do not function as intended in underride crashes —frontside, and rear — leaving passenger vehicle occupants vulnerable to life-threatening injuries.

Justin Lynn & Colten Stewart, Precious Ones Gone Too Soon

See Underride Crash Memorials posted here and at #STOPunderrides Tweets. To add photos or more information on this story or to add other underride crashes to be remembered, send an email to underridemap@gmail.com. Please use this Interactive Underride Crash Map Crash Location Input Form to provide us with accurate information . (Note: the map is currently not online; but we would keep the information for future updating and to aid in underride advocacy efforts.)

How You Can Help

Support improving Underride Protection on trailers: Contact your legislators with this User-Friendly TAKE ACTION online tool.

Please sign this petitionSecretary Pete, It’s Past Time To End Death By Underride!

Note: In order to raise awareness and preserve the memories of underride victims — precious ones gone too soon — I have been writing memorial posts on what could potentially be underride crashes. I am not a crash reconstructionist, and I do not have all the facts on these crashes; but underride should be investigated as a potential factor in truck crash injuries and deaths.

We are asking that people send us crash reports for collisions with trucks which they suspect involved underride. Send them to marianne@annaleahmary.com. We will submit these as complaints to USDOT. Read more here: Launching a Campaign To Flood NHTSA With Underride Complaint Reports.

In Memory of Deborah Washington (July 15, 2023)

They say when northbound traffic was coming to a stop because of road maintenance and lane closures, a tractor trailer was unable to stop and hit seven other cars.

The report says the driver of the first car hit by the trailer, 57-year-old Deborah Washington of Atlanta, died from her injuries in the crash. Woman dead after tractor trailer crashes into her and six other cars in Byron

Because the bottom of a truck is higher than the bumper of passenger vehicles, when there is a collision the smaller vehicle easily slides under the truck and the first point of impact is the windshield. Seatbelts, airbags, and car crumple zones do not function as intended in underride crashes —frontside, and rear — leaving passenger vehicle occupants vulnerable to life-threatening injuries.

Deborah Washington, Precious One Gone Too Soon

See Underride Crash Memorials posted here and at #STOPunderrides Tweets. To add photos or more information on this story or to add other underride crashes to be remembered, send an email to underridemap@gmail.com. Please use this Interactive Underride Crash Map Crash Location Input Form to provide us with accurate information . (Note: the map is currently not online; but we would keep the information for future updating and to aid in underride advocacy efforts.)

How You Can Help

Support improving Underride Protection on trailers: Contact your legislators with this User-Friendly TAKE ACTION online tool.

Please sign this petitionSecretary Pete, It’s Past Time To End Death By Underride!

Note: In order to raise awareness and preserve the memories of underride victims — precious ones gone too soon — I have been writing memorial posts on what could potentially be underride crashes. I am not a crash reconstructionist, and I do not have all the facts on these crashes; but underride should be investigated as a potential factor in truck crash injuries and deaths.

We are asking that people send us crash reports for collisions with trucks which they suspect involved underride. Send them to marianne@annaleahmary.com. We will submit these as complaints to USDOT. Read more here: Launching a Campaign To Flood NHTSA With Underride Complaint Reports.

In Memory of Mark Savage (July 7, 2023)

Mark Savage, 63, his son-in-law Jeremy Dalton and grandsons Hinton, 11, and Gabe, 10, were driving home from a water park in Hiawassee when they were hit by a dump truck and the car lost control, according to a GoFundMe set up to help the family. Grandfather killed, 2 grandsons seriously injured in crash on way home from Ga. water park

Because the bottom of a truck is higher than the bumper of passenger vehicles, when there is a collision the smaller vehicle easily slides under the truck and the first point of impact is the windshield. Seatbelts, airbags, and car crumple zones do not function as intended in underride crashes —frontside, and rear — leaving passenger vehicle occupants vulnerable to life-threatening injuries.

Mark Savage, Precious One Gone Too Soon

 

See Underride Crash Memorials posted here and at #STOPunderrides Tweets. To add photos or more information on this story or to add other underride crashes to be remembered, send an email to underridemap@gmail.com. Please use this Interactive Underride Crash Map Crash Location Input Form to provide us with accurate information . (Note: the map is currently not online; but we would keep the information for future updating and to aid in underride advocacy efforts.)

How You Can Help

Support improving Underride Protection on trailers: Contact your legislators with this User-Friendly TAKE ACTION online tool.

Please sign this petitionSecretary Pete, It’s Past Time To End Death By Underride!

Note: In order to raise awareness and preserve the memories of underride victims — precious ones gone too soon — I have been writing memorial posts on what could potentially be underride crashes. I am not a crash reconstructionist, and I do not have all the facts on these crashes; but underride should be investigated as a potential factor in truck crash injuries and deaths.

We are asking that people send us crash reports for collisions with trucks which they suspect involved underride. Send them to marianne@annaleahmary.com. We will submit these as complaints to USDOT. Read more here: Launching a Campaign To Flood NHTSA With Underride Complaint Reports.

In Memory of Roger Deweese (July 11, 2023)

The vehicle crossed the center line, striking a tractor-trailer head-on. The driver of the blue Equinox, identified as Roger L. Deweese, 48, of Gallipolis Ferry, WV was pronounced deceased due to the crash. West Virginia man dead after striking tractor-trailer

Because the bottom of a truck is higher than the bumper of passenger vehicles, when there is a collision the smaller vehicle easily slides under the truck and the first point of impact is the windshield. Seatbelts, airbags, and car crumple zones do not function as intended in underride crashes —frontside, and rear — leaving passenger vehicle occupants vulnerable to life-threatening injuries.

Roger Deweese, Precious One Gone Too Soon

 

See Underride Crash Memorials posted here and at #STOPunderrides Tweets. To add photos or more information on this story or to add other underride crashes to be remembered, send an email to underridemap@gmail.com. Please use this Interactive Underride Crash Map Crash Location Input Form to provide us with accurate information . (Note: the map is currently not online; but we would keep the information for future updating and to aid in underride advocacy efforts.)

How You Can Help

Support improving Underride Protection on trailers: Contact your legislators with this User-Friendly TAKE ACTION online tool.

Please sign this petitionSecretary Pete, It’s Past Time To End Death By Underride!

Note: In order to raise awareness and preserve the memories of underride victims — precious ones gone too soon — I have been writing memorial posts on what could potentially be underride crashes. I am not a crash reconstructionist, and I do not have all the facts on these crashes; but underride should be investigated as a potential factor in truck crash injuries and deaths.

We are asking that people send us crash reports for collisions with trucks which they suspect involved underride. Send them to marianne@annaleahmary.com. We will submit these as complaints to USDOT. Read more here: Launching a Campaign To Flood NHTSA With Underride Complaint Reports.

In Memory of Scotty Lloyd (July 10, 2023)

. . . a Mazda pickup truck with three passengers, driven by Scotty Lloyd, 51, was going around a curve on Highway 112 and was approaching a tractor-trailer. The pickup truck hydroplaned causing Lloyd to lose control and collide with the front of the tractor-trailer.

After the impact, the tractor-trailer then went over the pickup truck.

Lloyd was pronounced dead at the scene.

The passengers in the truck were transported to local hospitals for treatment. 1 dead in Mitchell Co. crash involving tractor-trailer, GSP investigating

Because the bottom of a truck is higher than the bumper of passenger vehicles, when there is a collision the smaller vehicle easily slides under the truck and the first point of impact is the windshield. Seatbelts, airbags, and car crumple zones do not function as intended in underride crashes —frontside, and rear — leaving passenger vehicle occupants vulnerable to life-threatening injuries.

Scotty Lloyd, Precious One Gone Too Soon

 

See Underride Crash Memorials posted here and at #STOPunderrides Tweets. To add photos or more information on this story or to add other underride crashes to be remembered, send an email to underridemap@gmail.com. Please use this Interactive Underride Crash Map Crash Location Input Form to provide us with accurate information . (Note: the map is currently not online; but we would keep the information for future updating and to aid in underride advocacy efforts.)

How You Can Help

Support improving Underride Protection on trailers: Contact your legislators with this User-Friendly TAKE ACTION online tool.

Please sign this petitionSecretary Pete, It’s Past Time To End Death By Underride!

Note: In order to raise awareness and preserve the memories of underride victims — precious ones gone too soon — I have been writing memorial posts on what could potentially be underride crashes. I am not a crash reconstructionist, and I do not have all the facts on these crashes; but underride should be investigated as a potential factor in truck crash injuries and deaths.

We are asking that people send us crash reports for collisions with trucks which they suspect involved underride. Send them to marianne@annaleahmary.com. We will submit these as complaints to USDOT. Read more here: Launching a Campaign To Flood NHTSA With Underride Complaint Reports.

In Memory of Jose Carrillo-Cabanzo (July 10, 2023)

. . . Brayan Cabanzo-Cano, 21, was driving a 2015 Chevrolet Cruze eastbound on U.S. 244 westbound just after midnight Monday morning.

He crashed head-on with a semi just to the west of Defiance near Baltimore Street.

Cabanzo-Cano was flown to Toledo Hospital with serious injuries. The passenger in his car, Jose M. Carrillo-Cabanzo, 24, was pronounced dead at the scene. One dead, another seriously injured in wrong way crash with semi on U.S. 24

Because the bottom of a truck is higher than the bumper of passenger vehicles, when there is a collision the smaller vehicle easily slides under the truck and the first point of impact is the windshield. Seatbelts, airbags, and car crumple zones do not function as intended in underride crashes —frontside, and rear — leaving passenger vehicle occupants vulnerable to life-threatening injuries.

Jose Carrillo-Cabanzo, Precious One Gone Too Soon

 

See Underride Crash Memorials posted here and at #STOPunderrides Tweets. To add photos or more information on this story or to add other underride crashes to be remembered, send an email to underridemap@gmail.com. Please use this Interactive Underride Crash Map Crash Location Input Form to provide us with accurate information . (Note: the map is currently not online; but we would keep the information for future updating and to aid in underride advocacy efforts.)

How You Can Help

Support improving Underride Protection on trailers: Contact your legislators with this User-Friendly TAKE ACTION online tool.

Please sign this petitionSecretary Pete, It’s Past Time To End Death By Underride!

Note: In order to raise awareness and preserve the memories of underride victims — precious ones gone too soon — I have been writing memorial posts on what could potentially be underride crashes. I am not a crash reconstructionist, and I do not have all the facts on these crashes; but underride should be investigated as a potential factor in truck crash injuries and deaths.

We are asking that people send us crash reports for collisions with trucks which they suspect involved underride. Send them to marianne@annaleahmary.com. We will submit these as complaints to USDOT. Read more 

In Memory of Virginia Doyle (July 7, 2023)

. . . a 2020 Kenworth tractor-trailer struck the back end of a 2022 Chevrolet Traverse. The collision then pushed the Traverse into the rear of a trailer attached to a 2021 Ford F350. . .

The driver of the Traverse, identified as Virginia Doyle, died as a result of the crash.

Authorities say the other drivers were not hurt and “able to drive their vehicles from the scene.” Deadly crash on Route 2: Woman dies in 3-vehicle wreck

Because the bottom of a truck is higher than the bumper of passenger vehicles, when there is a collision the smaller vehicle easily slides under the truck and the first point of impact is the windshield. Seatbelts, airbags, and car crumple zones do not function as intended in underride crashes —frontside, and rear — leaving passenger vehicle occupants vulnerable to life-threatening injuries.

Virginia Doyle, Precious One Gone Too Soon

 

See Underride Crash Memorials posted here and at #STOPunderrides Tweets. To add photos or more information on this story or to add other underride crashes to be remembered, send an email to underridemap@gmail.com. Please use this Interactive Underride Crash Map Crash Location Input Form to provide us with accurate information . (Note: the map is currently not online; but we would keep the information for future updating and to aid in underride advocacy efforts.)

How You Can Help

Support improving Underride Protection on trailers: Contact your legislators with this User-Friendly TAKE ACTION online tool.

Please sign this petitionSecretary Pete, It’s Past Time To End Death By Underride!

Note: In order to raise awareness and preserve the memories of underride victims — precious ones gone too soon — I have been writing memorial posts on what could potentially be underride crashes. I am not a crash reconstructionist, and I do not have all the facts on these crashes; but underride should be investigated as a potential factor in truck crash injuries and deaths.

We are asking that people send us crash reports for collisions with trucks which they suspect involved underride. Send them to marianne@annaleahmary.com. We will submit these as complaints to USDOT. Read more here: Launching a Campaign To Flood NHTSA With Underride Complaint Reports.

In Memory of Ivan Hood (July 8, 2023)

OSP said a preliminary investigation found that Ivan Allen Hood, 26, of Chiloquin, was driving a Chevy Tahoe heading north on the highway when for unknown reasons he crossed into the southbound lane and struck a Freightliner tanker driven by a 38-year-old Winter Haven, Florida man head-on.

Hood died at the scene, OSP said. The truck driver and passenger, from California, were injured and taken to an area hospital for treatment. Chiloquin man killed in head-on crash with tanker truck on Highway 97 north of Klamath Falls

Because the bottom of a truck is higher than the bumper of passenger vehicles, when there is a collision the smaller vehicle easily slides under the truck and the first point of impact is the windshield. Seatbelts, airbags, and car crumple zones do not function as intended in underride crashes —frontside, and rear — leaving passenger vehicle occupants vulnerable to life-threatening injuries.

Ivan Hood, Precious One Gone Too Soon

 

See Underride Crash Memorials posted here and at #STOPunderrides Tweets. To add photos or more information on this story or to add other underride crashes to be remembered, send an email to underridemap@gmail.com. Please use this Interactive Underride Crash Map Crash Location Input Form to provide us with accurate information . (Note: the map is currently not online; but we would keep the information for future updating and to aid in underride advocacy efforts.)

How You Can Help

Support improving Underride Protection on trailers: Contact your legislators with this User-Friendly TAKE ACTION online tool.

Please sign this petitionSecretary Pete, It’s Past Time To End Death By Underride!

Note: In order to raise awareness and preserve the memories of underride victims — precious ones gone too soon — I have been writing memorial posts on what could potentially be underride crashes. I am not a crash reconstructionist, and I do not have all the facts on these crashes; but underride should be investigated as a potential factor in truck crash injuries and deaths.

We are asking that people send us crash reports for collisions with trucks which they suspect involved underride. Send them to marianne@annaleahmary.com. We will submit these as complaints to USDOT. Read more here: Launching a Campaign To Flood NHTSA With Underride Complaint Reports.