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

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.

  • 30 April 2018
  • Author: Army Safety
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