"A significant number of accidents are associated with rollovers": the US Armed Forces assessed the accident rate of military vehicles

Specialists of the US Audit Office (GAO), which has broad powers in identifying shortcomings in the armed forces, analyzed the accident rate when driving equipment in the army and the Marine Corps.

According to the results of the study, during the period 2010 - 2019, 3 non-combat accidents occurred in these branches of the armed forces associated with driving class A and B tactical vehicles [Tanks and tracked or wheeled vehicles], which resulted in the deaths of 123 servicemen.

Driver inattention, oversight and training deficiencies were frequent reasons [...] The Army and Marine Corps lack a well-defined process for building skills and driving experience [...] Unit training focuses on priorities other than driving

- believe in the GAO.

As indicated in the report, a significant number of accidents are associated with rollover equipment. Based on the findings, the GAO demanded that commanders of all levels pay increased attention to the problem of accidents, adjust the workload on drivers, assess the number of personnel in units responsible for driving safety, and revise the driver training program.

Number of Class A and B military vehicle accidents and related deaths of military personnel, 2010-2019 fiscal years:

Comments

[Catfish]

revise the driver training program.

We need to put our traffic policemen on every corner, when they shake out all the loot from them, they will immediately learn to drive as they should.

[Catfish]

Again, the devil is on the site, it refuses to work at all.

[Tatyana]

Ну let the designers of cars move their wheels widerso that the bad drivers have less opportunity to overturn the car out of the blue! (Joke.)

[venik]

Quote: Tatiana

Well, let the designers of cars move their wheels wider

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Yes, with such a height and ground clearance (in the same place the center of gravity, almost one and a half meters above the ground!) - they will have to push the wheels as much as 2 lanes so as not to tumble out of the blue!
Especially with such "carriers" !!!

[Michael67]

Come on. They ride well, somersault. Pushshai continue in the same spirit. Game computer mutants. So you look, if anything, all their carriers will want to survive after the 1st mission. And then a bummer. Wooden mac in kind.

[Machito]

In Ukraine, recently, too, one was covered by a tank during unloading. Looks like not only the coronavirus is contagious.

[knn54]

It wasn't about the babin. The dabbler was sitting in the cockpit.
Corruption is everywhere. Paid for the rights,. Paid for the graduating nurse. Paid for a certificate from the REGULAR medical board, Bribe for a certificate from refresher courses (confirmation).
They have the same thing. Only the taker must pay the tax on the bribe, or rather "gratitude".
Well, then discipline.

[SovAr238A]

Quote: knn54

It wasn't about the babin. The dabbler was sitting in the cockpit.
Corruption is everywhere. Paid for the rights,. Paid for the graduating nurse. Paid for a certificate from the REGULAR medical board, Bribe for a certificate from refresher courses (confirmation).
They have the same thing. Only the taker must pay the tax on the bribe, or rather "gratitude".
Well, then discipline.

Do not invent.

Have you ever talked to American drivers?
Buy a Highway Patrol Officer or D-O-Tishnik?
pass weight control for money?
to buy a drug test?
buy a medical examination?
There are about half a million Russian-speaking drivers working in the USA - none of them could say that they bought something. On the contrary, everyone clearly knows that this is impossible.
Buy rights?
Buy CDL?

Generally unrealistic ...
You can be forgiven for the joint, and not fined ...
But to buy or buy off is unrealistic on the roads.

[Murmur 55]

Does the professional US military have training problems? This means that it is not a matter of what kind of army is a conscript al contract, but a matter of the quality of conscripts, and this is the problem in most countries.

[Vladimir Vladimirovich Vorontsov]

***
So that my beloved does not have to cry
Hold on tight to the wheel, the chauffeur ...
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[mmaxx]

hold on to the driver, ram

[mmaxx]

Standard problem. And in the SA, cars were tumbling all the time. And in the Gobi Desert. And there exactly.
Young, hot. They drive anyway and anywhere. The car is not its own and is strong.

[YOUR]

You have to pay for everything. They came up with an anti-mine configuration of the bottom, increased the ground clearance, naturally the center of gravity of the car rose. Rollover as a result.

[dimy44]

Age. Sometimes in a dream I remember how I drove at that time, already goosebumps.

[Alexander 3]

Yes, we all want fewer drivers behind the wheel, but progress. There is nothing to be done with progress. Without exclamations of praise, it is not possible to drive on the roads.

[prior]

Apparently in the States, corruption is also rampant in the issuance of certificates for the right to control military equipment.
The rights are bought and here is the result ...

[faiver]

wheeled vehicles with mine protection have a high center of gravity, so they tip over ...