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Army says corrections have decreased Humvee rollovers
Thursday, August 31, 2006
The Army said it has made a number of safety enhancements that have dramatically decreased the number of rollovers involving uparmored Humvees.
Army Secretary Francis J. Harvey, in a letter dated July 28 responding to Sen. George Voinovich's concerns about the safety of the combat vehicles, said that "to date this year, there have been 24" Humvee accidents this year involving rollovers — "down from 63 last year during the same time frame. With over 780 million miles driven over the past three years, on average there has been one rollover accident every 5.3 million miles."
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Voinovich's letter, dated June 28, was sent to the Army secretary and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in response to a Dayton Daily News special report on uparmored Humvees — vehicles that have had armor added to them.
The report, Lethal Protection, by former staff writers Russell Carollo and Mike Wagner, was published June 11. It found that 60 of the 85 soldiers who died in Humvee crashes in Iraq in 2005 were killed in rollovers.
Voinovich told Rumsfeld the articles concluded "the source of the rollovers is the thousands of pounds of armor added in the interest of increased security."
Voinovich said that after the articles were published, the Army produced a fact sheet stating that of the 30,000 Humvees in Iraq, 71 have been involved in rollover accidents, — fewer than 1 percent of the vehicles in use.
