ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — 10 Investigates has spent years looking at the issues on our roadways, from trucking companies changing names seemingly overnight to avoid accountability to raising concerns about the ways the trucks are built and what would increase your odds for survival. You’ve probably seen a crash where a car goes under a semi-truck trailer. It’s called an underride.
Earlier this month, a 26-year-old man was killed in Jacksonville in a rear-end crash. Safety advocates say these types of crashes are underreported and preventable. Now, there’s a new analysis that adds to the calls that changes are needed.
Marianne Karth has been on a mission to get lawmakers to change federal law and require trucks to have both back and side underride guards.
“If we had hit the car straight on, I probably wouldn’t even be here today. But in the aftermath, wondering why my daughters had died, and I did not, I learned all about underride and that hundreds of people die every year from going under trucks. And the engineers can actually solve the problem,” Karth told us back in 2024…