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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 18-062 - PMV-4 Mishap Claims One Soldier's Life

Posting Date:   /   Categories: Preliminary Loss Reports, PMV-4
A 19-year-old Private First Class assigned to 101st Airborne Division, Fort Campbell, Kentucky, died in a PMV-4 mishap 23 April 2018 in Clarksville, Tennessee, at 0415 local. The Soldier was operating his vehicle when it left the roadway and struck three trees. Wet road conditions were present at the time of the accident.

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 18-052 - PMV-4 Mishap Claims One Soldier's Life

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A 19-year-old Private assigned to 20th Engineering Brigade, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, died in a PMV-4 mishap 17 March 2018 in Floyd County, Indiana, at 0230 local. The Soldier’s vehicle exited the interstate, traveled into the median and rolled numerous times before coming to a rest inverted. He was reportedly not wearing a seat belt.

ENGAGEMENT TIPS:

  • Forty-eight percent of passenger vehicle occupants who were killed in traffic crashes in 2016 were unrestrained.

  • Seat belts saved an estimated 14,668 lives of passenger vehicle occupants 5 and older in 2016.

  • Research has found that lap/shoulder seat belts, when used, reduce the risk of fatal injury to front-seat passenger car occupants by 45 percent and the risk of moderate-to-critical injury by 50 percent.

PLR 18-048 - PMV-4 Mishap Claims One Soldier's Life

Posting Date:   /   Categories: Preliminary Loss Reports, PMV-4
A 25-year-old Private assigned to 101st Airborne Division, Fort Campbell, Kentucky, died in a PMV-4 mishap 10 March 2018 in Mayfield, Kentucky, at 0200 local. The Soldier was operating a PMV-4 when it exited the roadway, traveled sideways through a field and struck a tree. Excessive speed and wet road conditions are reported as contributing factors.

ENGAGEMENT TIPS:

  • Slow down at the first sign of rain, drizzle, or snow on the road as this is when many road surfaces are most slippery because moisture mixes with oil and dust that has not been washed away.

  • Be sure to turn on your low-beam headlights in reduced visibility instances.

  • Heavy rainfall can reduce visibility to zero. Pull over and wait for the rain to subside, or until visibility is restored.
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