Victims Involved in U.S. Disabled Vehicle Crashes Since Company Inception in October 2018:

34,325

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Emergency Safety Solutions (ESS) is focused on saving lives by helping to eliminate hundreds of thousands of preventable accidents involving vehicles that are disabled on or along the side of the road. Our Hazard Enhanced Lighting Package (“H.E.L.P.") is a regulatory compliant, intelligent emergency communications safety feature that combines highly visible emergency-based flash rates of the vehicle lighting, and digital notifications sent to other vehicles and GPS-based mapping applications that delivers advanced warnings to oncoming motorists, giving them minutes, not milliseconds, to react.

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The Problem

A new study by Impact Research Inc. quantifies the extent of growing fatalities and injuries resulting from preventable disabled vehicle crashes along America’s roadways

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People are injured or killed in preventable tragedies involving disabled vehicles every day. Recent studies (2017-2018) show a nearly 10% annual increase in these types of accidents, including a nearly 27% increase in fatalities of pedestrians attending to disabled vehicles from 2014 to 2018. As a result, every day more than 200 people are involved in preventable crashes with disabled or stationary vehicles in the U.S. alone. These accidents occur when oncoming drivers do not notice disabled vehicles in time to safely react.

Preventable tragedies involving disabled vehicles include scenarios such as:

  1. A moving vehicle strikes a non-moving, disabled vehicle on or adjacent to the roadway, often leading to multiple car pile-ups.
  2. A pedestrian is struck while attending to a disabled vehicle on or adjacent to the roadway.
  3. A vehicle runs off the roadway, strikes a fixed object, and the accident goes unnoticed by passersby for hours or days while trapped vehicle occupants expire.

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New Study By Impact Research Quantifies Impact Of Disabled Vehicle-Involved Crashes For The First Time

  • Disabled vehicle-involved crashes affect nearly 72,000 people in the U.S. each year – one every seven minutes, 200 per day – resulting in nearly 15,000 people injured or killed.
  • Crashes involving motorists attending to their disabled vehicle and those who assist them are especially tragic, with nearly 300 people killed in crashes of this type each year.
  • The societal cost of crashes involving disabled vehicles and their occupants in the U.S. is immense at $8.8 billion annually (Includes the economic cost of medical payments and wage losses, in addition to value of quality of life lost due to death or disability).

The full safety case study can be viewed here. To view a condensed interpretation of the safety case, please click here.