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FATALITIES IN LARGE-TRUCK CRASHES
Fatalities in Large-Truck Crashes (annual data)
Trucks represent 4 percent of registered highway vehicles, about 7 percent
of vehicle miles of travel, and 8 percent of vehicles in fatal crashes.
Occupants of other vehicles or people outside the truck account for 85%
of total fatalities involving large trucks for 2000.
| Fatalities involving large trucks |
5,362 |
5,211 |
| Fatalities involving large trucks percent change from previous year |
-0.22 |
-2.82 |
| Large-truck occupant fatalities |
759 |
741 |
| Large-truck occupant fatalities percent change from previous year |
2.29 |
-2.37 |
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, 2000 Traffic Safety Facts. Available at :
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/ncsa/factshet.html
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