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Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is pushing ahead with a third try at legislation to mandate safety requirements for big rigs that have the potential to save hundreds of lives a year.This morning, Gillibrand, Democrat of New York, and Florida GOP Senator Marco Rubio will reintroduce the Stop Underrides Act for the third time. The bill would require guards on the sides and front of all new tractor trailers and update safety standards for stanley drinking cup underride guards on the rear of trucks to protect the drivers around them.An underride crash can be devastating to people inside a passenger vehicle mdash; especially a sedan or sports car. It occurs when the car slides completely or partially under a large truck or a semi-trailer during a crash. In 2019 alone, more than 850 people died in crashes with the side or rear of a semi, according to the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety IIHS . IIHS estimates 80% of the nearly 7,000 deaths from crashes with the side or rear of a stanley puodelis big rig involved some kind of underride where a car ends up under the semi or its trailer. Even at low speeds these crashes can be catastrophic because the trailer s undercarriage can tear through the passenger cabin resulting in severe head and neck injuries, including decapitation. This bill would finally enact critical, commonsense changes that would save lives on our roads. Requiring effectiv stanley spain e truck underride guards is one of the best and easiest solutions to prevent horrific Cyte Senators demand firm answer from Trump on Saudi crown prince s role in Jamal Khashoggi murder
Three weeks before stanley cup becher the presidential election, a revised estimate of electoral votes shows a tight race between President Bush and John Kerry, with eight states in the tossup category. The estimate shows 26 states with 222 electoral votes likely or leaning toward Bush, 17 states with 217 votes likely or leaning toward John Kerry and 8 states with 99 votes as tossups. A total of 270 of the 538 electoral votes is needed to capture the presidency. Ohio has moved into the tossup category, joining Florida, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. A couple of recent polls in Pennsylvania have suggested some movement toward Sen. Kerry, but for now we think it is still a tossup. Ohio and Colorado both have political histories that indicate they should go to President Bush, yet both stanley botella public and private polls indicate Kerry has real strength in those states. For now, we think Colorado is still leaning toward President Bush but that Ohio is clearly a tossup. We will continue to watch these states in particular in the next weeks to see if clear trends emerge. stanley travel mug New Jersey remains in the lean Kerry column although polling shows President Bush making some inroads. Both Vice President Dick Cheney and Sen. John Edwards have visited the state recently and both campaigns are advertising in the Philadelphia media market that reaches the southern part of the state. The sites of the final two debates, Missouri and Arizona