Deaths in truck crashes keep rising as your government ignores safety solutions

Truckers gas up at Love's truck stop in Bordentown in March 3, 2019, as snow begins to fall.Michael Mancuso | NJ Advance Med

WASHINGTON — Whenever she talks about her mother, Renee Langiotti keeps tissues close by.

Her mother, Susan Bartholomay, was killed on a Florida interstate highway in May 2015 after the car she was riding in swerved to avoid a large truck that was drifting over. Her car collided with another vehicle and wound up wedged underneath the truck trailer.

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