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Table 2-23: Truck Occupant Safety Data

Friday, April 22, 2016

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  1975 1980 1985 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Fatalities, total 5,817 8,748 7,666 9,306 9,052 8,683 9,116 9,574 10,216 10,553 10,972 11,447 12,024 12,280 12,431 12,963 13,272 13,440 13,841 13,566 13,263 11,498 10,811 10,312 9,942 10,115 (R) 9,882 9,753
Light 4,856 7,486 6,689 8,601 8,391 8,098 8,511 8,904 9,568 9,932 10,249 10,705 11,265 11,526 11,723 12,274 12,546 12,674 13,037 12,761 12,458 10,816 10,312 9,782 9,302 9,418 (R) 9,187 9,096
Large 961 1,262 977 705 661 585 605 670 648 621 723 742 759 754 708 689 726 766 804 805 805 682 499 530 640 697 (R) 695 657
Injured persons, total N N N 547,000 591,000 578,000 633,000 662,000 753,000 794,000 786,000 791,000 880,000 917,000 890,000 906,000 916,000 927,000 899,000 880,000 865,000 791,000 776,000 753,000 751,000 788,000 774,000 809,000
Light N N N 505,000 563,000 545,000 601,000 631,000 722,000 761,000 755,000 763,000 847,000 887,000 861,000 879,000 889,000 900,000 872,000 857,000 841,000 768,000 759,000 733,000 728,000 762,000 750,000 782,000
Large N N N 42,000 28,000 34,000 32,000 30,000 30,000 33,000 31,000 29,000 33,000 31,000 29,000 26,000 27,000 27,000 27,000 23,000 23,000 23,000 17,000 20,000 23,000 25,000 24,000 27,000
Trucks involved in crashes, total N N N 2,784,000 2,809,000 2,853,000 3,139,000 3,412,000 3,568,000 3,756,000 3,835,000 3,805,000 4,151,000 4,308,000 4,348,000 4,423,000 4,516,000 4,570,000 4,593,000 4,541,000 4,605,000 4,343,000 4,246,000 4,051,000 3,912,000 4,143,000 4,211,000 4,622,000
Light N N N 2,399,000 2,479,000 2,477,000 2,742,000 2,951,000 3,191,000 3,363,000 3,397,000 3,393,000 3,677,000 3,851,000 3,918,000 3,988,000 4,059,000 4,154,000 4,151,000 4,156,000 4,192,000 3,963,000 3,950,000 3,775,000 3,625,000 3,810,000 3,869,000 4,184,000
Large N N N 385,000 331,000 376,000 397,000 460,000 377,000 394,000 438,000 412,000 475,000 457,000 429,000 434,000 457,000 416,000 442,000 385,000 413,000 380,000 296,000 276,000 287,000 333,000 342,000 438,000
Vehicle-miles (millions), total 285,604 403,966 512,283 701,901 745,467 795,781 835,241 881,731 928,127 970,226 1,016,373 1,058,331 1,103,355 1,145,739 1,182,329 1,225,362 1,260,320 1,317,910 1,355,087 1,379,210 1,440,539 1,416,562 1,411,215 1,427,267 (R) 1,548,242 (R) 1,555,781 (R) 1,568,553 1,593,590
Light 204,274 295,475 388,779 555,659 595,924 642,397 675,353 711,515 749,971 787,255 824,896 861,951 900,667 940,219 973,401 1,010,759 1,042,444 1,097,099 1,132,564 1,156,697 1,136,361 1,105,882 1,122,909 1,140,740 (R) 1,280,648 (R) 1,286,574 (R) 1,293,536 1,314,458
Large 81,330 108,491 123,504 146,242 149,543 153,384 159,888 170,216 178,156 182,971 191,477 196,380 202,688 205,520 208,928 214,603 217,876 220,811 222,523 222,513 304,178 310,680 288,306 286,527 267,594 269,207 (R) 275,017 279,132
Rates per 100 million vehicle-miles                                                        
Fatalities                                                        
Light 2.4 2.5 1.7 1.5 1.4 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.2 1.2 1.3 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.1 1.1 1.0 0.9 0.9 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7
Large 1.2 1.2 0.8 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.2
Injured persons                                                        
Light N N N 90.9 94.5 84.8 89.0 88.7 96.3 96.7 91.5 88.5 94.0 94.3 88.5 87.0 85.3 82.0 77.0 74.1 74.0 69.4 67.6 64.3 56.8 59.2 58.0 59.5
Large N N N 28.7 18.7 22.2 20.0 17.6 16.8 18.0 16.2 14.8 16.3 15.1 13.9 12.1 12.4 12.2 12.1 10.3 7.6 7.4 5.9 7.0 8.6 9.3 8.7 9.7
Trucks involved in crashes                                                        
Light N N N 432 416 386 406 415 425 427 412 394 408 410 403 395 389 379 367 359 369 358 352 331 283 296 299 318
Large N N N 263 221 245 248 270 212 215 229 210 234 222 205 202 210 188 199 173 136 122 103 96 107 124 124 157

KEY: N = data do not exist; R = revised.

NOTES

Large trucks - trucks over 10,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating, including single-unit trucks and truck tractors. Light trucks - trucks of 10,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating or less, including pickups, vans, truck-based station wagons, and utility vehicles. The injury and crash data in this table are from the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) General Estimates System (GES). The data from GES, which began operation in 1988, are obtained from a nationally representative probability sample selected from all police-reported crashes. The GES sample includes only crashes where a police accident report was completed and the crash resulted in property damage, injury, or death. The resulting figures do not take into account crashes that were not reported to the police or that did not result in property damage.

Vehicle-miles in this table and in table 2-19 are taken from NHTSA revised data and are not based exclusively on USDOT, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) data, as they have been in earlier reports. The change was made to reflect the different vehicle classification schemes used by FHWA and NHTSA. Thus, Vehicle-miles for passenger cars and Light and Large trucks in table 2-19 and this table should not be compared with Vehicle-miles in Chapter 1, which are taken directly from FHWA.

Rates per 100 million vehicle-miles figures may not match those in the source data due to rounding by the source. The category Trucks involved in crashes, total, is not comparable to the category Crashes, that appeared in this table in 2008 and previous editions.

SOURCE

U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, National Center for Statistics and Analysis, Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) Database and General Estimates System (NASS GES) Database, personal communications, May 15, 2012, May 22, 2013, June 20, 2014, March31, 2015 and March 15, 2016.