They Must Be Stopped
The Department of Transportation has proposed a nationwide ban on the use of radar detectors on big rigs and is seeking public comments on this issue. (Business, Times, Nov. 4)
I wholeheartedly support this measure.
Radar detectors, also know as “fuzz busters,” are designed solely to encourage drivers to exceed the speed limit and thwart speed enforcement efforts. This endangers lives.
More people die or are injured in truck-involved accidents each year than in all casualties involving airplanes, trains and boats combined. Speed accounted for 37.8% of truck-driver-at-fault fatal and injury accidents in California in 1989.
Trucks with radar detectors are more likely to speed and SPEED KILLS!
Legislation is necessary to prevent trucks from killing and injuring on our highways.
HELEN SHANBROM
Santa Ana
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