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FATALITIES IN LARGE TRUCK CRASHES
Fatalities in Large Truck Crashes (annual data)
Trucks represent 4 percent of registered vehicles and about 7 percent of vehicle miles of
travel. Occupants of other vehicles or people outside the truck account for 85% of total
fatalities involving large trucks for 2000.
| 5,362 |
5,307 |
| -0.22 |
-1.03 |
| 758 |
746 |
| 2.16 |
-1.58 |
* 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, Performance Report 2000/Performance Plan 2002.
Data for Large-truck occupants: U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), Bureau of
Transportation Statistics, National Transportation Statistics 1999, table 3-1, available
at: http://www.bts.gov/ntda/nts/nts.html, and the U.S. DOT,
2001 Performance Report/ 2000 Performance Plan FY 2001.
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