In previous injury blogs, I have written about the dangerous reality to people trying to cross the road at marked or unmarked crosswalks. There is one other aspect of danger one faces at crosswalks and that is the presence of a semi truck such as a milk truck, semi delivery truck, or an oil tanker semi truck, all of which require much greater care to operate and drive.

Truck drivers in the state of Oregon and Washington will cause more accidents and injure more people if they elect to make turns and not realize who or whom is in their blind spots. Given that trucks are so much bigger than pedestrians the injuries you see maybe much greater than if one were driving or a passenger in a car. Commercial drivers in the state of Oregon and Washington also has a much higher safety requirement because they have a commercial license, which makes the driver take special courses that non truck drivers are not required to take.

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