{"id":1843,"date":"2015-11-12T20:05:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/atri-csa-ratings-improve-when-excluding-non-preventable-crashes\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T16:51:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T16:51:29","slug":"atri-csa-ratings-improve-when-excluding-non-preventable-crashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/atri-csa-ratings-improve-when-excluding-non-preventable-crashes\/","title":{"rendered":"ATRI: CSA Ratings Improve When Excluding non-Preventable Crashes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) released its latest research into the U.S. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration\u2019s Compliance Safety and Accountability (CSA) program which reveals that excluding \u201cnon-preventable crashes\u201d from the data decreases the Crash Indicator BASIC by nearly 15 percent.<\/p>\n

In this analysis \u2013 called \u201cAssessing the Impact of Non-Preventable Crashes on CSA Scores\u201d \u2013ATRI investigated the effect of excluding non-preventable crashes on scores FMCSA keeps about how likely a fleet is to be involved in a future crash.<\/p>\n

Carrier companies and groups like the American Trucking Associations have been urging the FMCSA\u00a0to make changes to its Compliance, Safety, Accountability scoring system by removing crashes<\/a> not caused by trucking companies or their drivers. The FMCSA currently includes all types crashes in its CSA scoring, factoring in accidents not caused by a commercial vehicle.<\/p>\n

Specifically, ATRI analyzed carrier crash records, mapped to FMCSA’s Motor Carrier Management Information System (MCMIS) database, to identify \u201ca small and non-controversial subset of non-preventable crashes\u201d with five primary causes:<\/p>\n

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  1. Animal collision<\/li>\n
  2. Other vehicle hits legally parked truck<\/li>\n
  3. Other vehicle runs a stop light\/sign and hits a truck<\/li>\n
  4. Driver of other vehicle was DUI<\/li>\n
  5. Truck-assisted suicide<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The ATRI analysis then removed these crashes and \u201crecalculated\u201d the \u201ccrash indicator measure\u201d in the CSA program, showing a nearly 15 percent drop.<\/p>\n

    \u201cThe trucking industry has identified a number of flaws in FMCSA\u2019s calculation of carrier safety performance through the CSA BASICs (Behavior Analysis and Safety Improvement Categories) and perhaps none is more egregious than the inclusion of non-preventable crashes in the Crash Indicator BASIC,\u201d said Scott Mugno, a member of ATRI\u2019s Research Advisory Committee as well as vice president of safety and maintenance for FedEx Ground. \u201cATRI\u2019s latest analysis, using a very conservative definition of non-preventable crashes, demonstrates just how skewed FMCSA\u2019s BASIC calculations can be.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Beyond CSA BASIC score impacts, these non-preventable crashes exact a toll on motor carriers and commercial drivers, according to ATRI.<\/p>\n

    The analysis also found that:<\/p>\n