Don’t just blame the driver – there’s more than one cause of fatal truck crashes

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twitter: 24 X users

facebook: 2 Facebook pages
reddit: 1 Redditor

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Article details
Title	Don’t just blame the driver – there’s more than one cause of fatal truck crashes
Published by	The Conversation
DOI	10.64628/aa.gggmnvthk
Authors	Newnam, Sharon, Goode, Natassia
Abstract	A rethink in the approach to road freight transport safety is urgently required to reduce fatalities and injuries.

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country	Count	As %
Australia	12	50%
Malaysia	2	8%
India	1	4%
Ireland	1	4%
South Africa	1	4%
Myanmar	1	4%
United Kingdom	1	4%
Unknown	5	21%

Demographic breakdown

Type
Type	Count	As %
Members of the public	17	71%
Scientists	5	21%
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors)	2	8%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 36. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 January 2026.

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Altmetric has tracked 32,515,534 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.

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