Truck Injury Crash Summary

North Dakota truck injury crash incidence, in terms of injury crashes per vehicle miles traveled (VMT), increased 80% between 2002 and 2012. In 2012, there were 1.13 truck injury crashes per 10,000 daily VMT compared to 0.63 in 2002. Between 2008 and 2012 trucks were involved in 8% of all injury crashes and 15% of severe injury crashes. More than 90% of severe crashes involving trucks between 2008 and 2012 occurred on rural roads.

• Record URL:
  • http://www.ugpti.org/rtssc/briefs/downloads/2013_TruckCrashSummary.pdf
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• Summary URL:
  • http://www.ugpti.org/resources/reports/details.php?id=ib52
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Cover title: Truck Injury Crashes
• Corporate Authors:

  North Dakota Department of Transportation

  608 East Boulevard Avenue
  Bismarck, ND  United States  58505-0700

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Publication Date: 2013

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 4p
• Serial:
  • Issue Brief
  • Publisher: Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute
  • Serial URL: http://www.ugpti.org/rtssc/briefs/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash causes; Crash data; Crash injuries; Crash rates; Trend (Statistics); Truck crashes; Types of roads
• Geographic Terms: North Dakota
• Subject Areas: Highways; Motor Carriers; Safety and Human Factors; I81: Accident Statistics;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01497270
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, ATRI, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Oct 30 2013 4:03PM