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"Some young drivers learned an important lesson Wednesday in Nashua.Click here to view News 9\u2019s report.Teenagers got behind the wheel of a commercial truck in Nashua. State police said passenger vehicle drivers are at fault in the majority of deadly crashes involving a car and a commercial vehicle.Part of a program for rookie drivers aims at reducing the number of crashes involving commercial vehicles.\u201CThese trucks have special handling characteristics that we don\u2019t in cars and they need to be aware of that so they don\u2019t put themselves in potentially hazardous situations,\u201D said Lt. John Begin of the New Hampshire State Police.Nearly 80 percent of fatal crashes in New Hampshire involving commercial vehicles and passenger vehicles are the fault of the passenger vehicle driver, state police said.That includes a May 2013 crash in Keene in which the driver of a car crossed over a median and struck a tanker truck head-on, killing both occupants of the car.Of the more than 3,500 deaths reported in 2012, 67 percent of those killed were occupants in passenger vehicles, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.Wednesday\u2019s lesson included sitting in the driver\u2019s seat of a commercial truck, where students saw the blind spots and learned the additional stopping distance needed for a truck.\u201CEverybody\u2019s in too much of a hurry,\u201D said Hank Jewett, a Conway freight driver. \u201CPeople are cutting us off all the time.\u201D\u201CYou learn how to appreciate them more and what they do, and how they\u2019re very safe with their driving,\u201D said Kayla Morrill of Nashua."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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