SIDE GUARD

SIDE GUARD

11.8"max

11.8"

9.8"

max

min

4.7" max

TOP VIEW

Drivers View

About half of all cyclists killed by large trucks and about a fourth of all pedestrians killed by trucks first hit the side of the truck and might have been saved by sideguards.- Alex Epstein, USDOT

of vehicles in US4%

TRUCKS

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recommends sideguards on heavy single-unit trucks, trailers, and truck tractors. ----single-unit trucks over 10,000 lbs., trailers over 10,000 lbs., and truck tractors over 26,000 lbs.

OK

OK

BLIND SPOT

BLIND SPOT

BLIND SPOT

NO

TRAILER TRACK

CAB TRACK

BLIND SPOT

NO

NO

Cause And

Typically50"

SIDE GUARD13.8" max

13.8" max

SIDE VIEW

8 out of the 9 involved large vehicles, at least four might have been prevented by truck sideguards.

Boston Area cyclist fatalites 2012-2014

WHAT ARE THEY?

BLIND SPOTS OTHER SAFETY PRECAUTIONS

Crossover Mirrors &Wide-angle Lenses

Area AClass IV wide anglemirror field of vision

Area BClass V close proximitymirror field of vision

6.56 ft

9.02 ft

14.75 ft

32.8 ft

82.02 ft

49.21 ft

3.28 ft

4.92 ft5.74 ft

Drivers’s eyelineCLASS V

Close Proximity Mirror

CLASS IVWide Angle Mirror

11%

FATA

LITIE

S

7%

FATA

LITI

ES

SIDEGUARDS SAVE LIVES

European Union

Japan

China

Portland, ORE.

Brazil

New York state

Washington, D.C.

Boston, Cambridge,

Somerville, & Newton,

MASS.

Legislation or other

Legislation implemented

mandates pending

The European Union, Japan, China, and Brazil have mandatory sideguard laws. Legislation or other mandates pending in the US: Portland, Washington DC, Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, Newton and NYC – various regulations and pilots.

EU sideguard law (Regulation 73) Applies to all vehicles in the European Union over 3.5 metric tons (7,700 lbs.) Can be met by vehicle design or sideguards; tool boxes, spare wheels, etc. can be integrated Sideguards can use horizontal rails or continuous flat surface: Flush with vehicle, smooth face, max ground clearance 550 mm / 21.7”; Better: 350 mm/13.8” Standards for strength (1 kN or 220 lbs. horizontal static force); Better: 2 kN/440 lbs.

A Pending NY State bill: trucks over 26,000 lbs. and operating in NYC to install sideguards. NY State law: trucks registered in NYS over 26,000 lbs. and operating in NYC must install crossover mirrors for forward blind spot.

Making it a law

61% decrease in cyclist fatality rate

20%decrease in pedestrian fatality rate

In the U.K.