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FATALITIES IN LARGE-TRUCK CRASHES
Fatalities in Large-Truck Crashes (annual data)
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Trucks represent 4 percent of registered highway vehicles and about 7
percent of vehicle miles of travel, but 12 percent of all people killed
in motor vehicle incidents are involved in a crash with a large truck.
Occupants of other vehicles or people outside the truck account for 87
percent of total fatalities involving large trucks for 2001.
| Fatalities involving large trucks |
5,211 |
5,192 |
| Fatalities involving large trucks percent change from previous year |
-2.82 |
-0.36 |
| Large-truck occupant fatalities |
741 |
696 |
| Large-truck occupant fatalities percent change from previous year |
-2.37 |
-6.07 |
* Preliminary estimate.
NOTE: Large trucks are over 10,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating.
SOURCES: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration, Analysis Division, Large Truck Crash Profile: The 1999
National Picture, available at http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/factsfigs/mchsstats.htm,
and U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration, National Center for Statistics and Analysis, 2000 Traffic
Safety Facts. Available at: http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/ncsa/factshet.html.
2001 numbers from NHTSA, 2001 Early Assessment, available at: http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-30/NCSA/Rpts/2002/2001EARelease.pdf
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