HIGHWAY BEHEMOTHS: DUMP TRUCKS AND TRANSIT MIX TRUCKS COMPARED

THE FREQUENCY AND SEVERITY OF TRANSIT MIX TRUCK CRASHES AND DUMP TRUCK CRASHES IN THE STATE OF TEXAS DURING 1969 ARE TABULATED. NO FATALITIES OCCURRED IN THE 360 TRANSIT MIX CRASHES IDENTIFIED. HOWEVER, 22 FATALITIES OCCURRED IN THE CONTROL GROUP CONSISTING OF 1940 DUMP TRUCK CRASHES. WITH TEXAS REPRESENTING APPROXIMATELY 6.5% OF THE CRASHES IN THE UNITED STATES, FATALITIES INVOLVING TRANSIT MIX TRUCKS ARE VERY LIKELY TO BE RARE EVENTS. /HSRI-

• Supplemental Notes:
  • pp 6-7, 3 FIG, 2 TAB
• Corporate Authors:

  Highway Safety Research Institute

  /Hit Lab Reports
  ,   United States 
• Authors:
  • O'Day, J
• Publication Date: 1971-7

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash rates; Crash severity; Crashes; Dump trucks; Trucks
• Old TRIS Terms: Transit mixers
• Subject Areas: Highways; Motor Carriers; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00223602
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 10 1971 12:00AM