Press Coverage

• Victims, families ask Congress to tighten regs on big trucks
  NBC 4 (video) – Washington, DC
• Coalition of parents call for big rig regulation
  ABC 7 / News Channel 8 (video) – Washington, DC
• Safety advocates fight push for bigger trucks
  CNN – National
• Widow lobbies for lighter trucks
  The Daily World – Aberdeen, WA
• Local widow pushing for federal big rig regulations
  KOMO – Seattle, WA
• Families push truck safety
  MSNBC – National
• Would larger trucks pose safety hazard?
  St. Louis Post Dispatch – St. Louis, MO
• Safety groups, families push for smaller trucks
  WTOP – Washington, DC

Press Conference – Media Information

• Press Conference Video – Part 1 of 2
• Press Conference Video – Part 2 of 2
• Video of Dr. Kathleen Ellsbury
• Video of Jackie Gillan
• Video of Joan Claybrook
• Press Release
• State Rankings by Truck Crash Deaths per 100,000 population
• Truck Deaths by State (2003 – 2007)
• Lake Research Partners Memo on Truck Size and Weight Survey

Statements

• KATHLEEN ELLSBURY, M.D.
  (Seattle, Washington), widow of University of Washington professor and seismologist Anthony Qamar who was killed October 5, 2005, along with his colleague, when an overloaded logging truck with multiple safety citations lost its load on Highway 101.  The tragedy prompted Dr. Ellsbury to lobby for passage of the Tony Qamar and Daniel Johnson Act to improve motor carrier safety in her state.

• DAWN KING
  (Davisburg, Michigan), whose father, William Badger, was killed December 23, 2004, when a tractor trailer driver fell asleep at the wheel and collided with his car.  Dawn has since joined the Board of Citizens for Reliable and Safe Highways (CRASH) and has participated in its First Response program to assist other grieving truck crash victims.

• FRANK and MARCHELLE WOOD
  (Falls Church, Virginia), whose daughter Dana Wood and her East Carolina University classmate were killed October 15, 2002, when their car was struck and pushed 1,500 feet by a careless trucker with a suspended license who had clocked nine hours of driving that day.

• TRACY QUINICHETT
  (Laurel, Maryland), mother of University of Maryland senior Channing Quinichett who was killed January 21, 2009, when a tire flew off a truck being towed and smashed through her windshield.   Channing was to receive her early childhood education degree from the state university on May 22.  She wanted to be a teacher.