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The extreme size of tractor-trailers means that they also have an extremely large stopping distance once the brakes are applied. Estimates show that a tractor-trailer moving at 60 mph has a typical stopping distance of 310 feet (more than a football field) once brakes are applied.
Victims and Elected Officials Fight for Truck Safety on Capitol Hill
Brian Goggin
Memphis planted black flags at accident sites. Baltimore erected an obelisk inscribed with the names of dead children, while St. Louis built a cherub-festooned monument titled “In Memory of Child Life Sacrificed upon the Altar of Haste and Recklessness.” In Pittsburgh, a “safety parade” included a float depicting a girl crushed between cars. A demonstration in Milwaukee incorporated a trashed automobile on a trailer: behind the wheel sat Satan himself.
They didn’t deliberately set out to exclude women. They just didn’t think about them.
Invisible Women
Caroline Criado Perez
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