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Preliminary Loss Reports (PLRs)

MEDIA Preliminary Loss Reports

About Preliminary Loss Reports (PLRs)

PLRs are intended to be used as an engagement tool for leaders to discuss the hazards and trends impacting Soldier safety and readiness. A PLR contains only basic information, as the investigation is ongoing, but provides sufficient background to allow leaders an opportunity to communicate risk at the Soldier level.

 

PLR 18-058 - Aviation Mishap Claims Two Soldiers' Lives

Posting Date:   /   Categories: Preliminary Loss Reports, Aviation
A 37-year-old Chief Warrant Officer 3 and 28-year-old Warrant Officer 1 assigned to 101st Aviation Division, Fort Campbell, Kentucky, died 6 April 2018 in an aviation mishap on the installation at 2140 local. At the time of the accident, the Soldiers were conducting aerial gunnery training under night vision systems. The USACRC is leading a centralized accident investigation into the mishap.

PLR 18-057 - PMV-4 Mishap Claims One Soldier's Life

Posting Date:   /   Categories: Preliminary Loss Reports, PMV-4
A Staff Sergeant assigned to the U.S. Army Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, died in a PMV-4 mishap 31 March 2018 in Fayetteville, North Carolina, at 0400 local. The Soldier was reportedly driving above the posted speed limit when his vehicle exited the roadway, struck a tree and caught fire.

  • Drivers who travel at higher speeds have less time to identify and react to what is happening around them. It takes them longer to stop. And if there is a crash, it is more severe, causing greater injury to the occupants and any pedestrian or rider they hit.

  • Excessive speed contributes to 14 percent of collisions in which someone is killed, 7 percent of crashes resulting in a serious injury and 4 percent of all injury collisions. In 2015, 222 people were killed in crashes involving someone exceeding the speed limit and a further 167 people died when someone was traveling too fast for the conditions.

  • Approximately two-thirds of all crashes in which people are killed or injured happen on roads with a speed limit of 30 mph or less. At 35 mph a driver is twice as likely to kill someone as they are at 30 mph.

PLR 18-056 - PMV-4 Mishap Claims One Soldier's Life

Posting Date:   /   Categories: Preliminary Loss Reports, PMV-4
A 20-year-old Private assigned to 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, New York, died in a PMV-4 mishap 30 March 2018 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at 0309 local. The Soldier’s vehicle was struck head on by a vehicle that was traveling in the wrong direction on the interstate.

PLR 18-055 - Pedestrian Mishap Claims One Soldier's Life

Posting Date:   /   Categories: Preliminary Loss Reports, Pedestrian
A 31-year-old Captain assigned to 4th Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colorado, died in a pedestrian mishap 24 March 2018 in Colorado Springs at 0221 local. The Soldier was suspected to have been sitting on or near railroad tracks when he was struck by a passing train.

ENGAGEMENT TIPS:

  • All train tracks are private property. Never walk or sit on tracks; it's illegal trespass and highly dangerous. By the time a locomotive engineer sees a trespasser or vehicle on the tracks, it's too late. It takes the average freight train traveling at 55 mph more than a mile—the length of 18 football fields—to stop. Trains cannot stop quickly enough to avoid a collision.

  • Remember to cross train tracks only at designated pedestrian or roadway crossings, and obey all warning signs and signals posted there.

  • Stay alert around railroad tracks. No texting, headphones or other distractions that would prevent you from hearing an approaching train; never mix rails and recreation.

PLR 18-054 - AMV Mishap Claims One Soldier's Life

Posting Date:   /   Categories: Preliminary Loss Reports, Army Vehicle
A 30-year-old Sergeant with the Illinois Army National Guard died in an Army motor vehicle mishap 25 March 2018 in Rockford, Illinois, at 1115 local. The Soldier was a passenger in an M997 HMMWV that overturned on an interstate during a unit convoy operation from an inactive duty training location to home station. The passenger and driver were both reportedly wearing their restraints and personal protective equipment but suffered serious injuries. The passenger later died at a local hospital.
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