STUDY OF CAR/TRUCK CRASHES IN THE UNITED STATES

This report provides descriptive information about truck-car accidents in the United States using primarily data from the Fatal Accident Reporting System (FARS). In 1980 14 percent of all fatal accidents (37 percent) of fatal multi-vehicle accidents) involved at least one car and one truck. Over half of these involved pickups and vans, while about one-seventh involved combination vehicles. Trucks, especially combination vehicles, are overinvolved in fatal accidents relative to FHWA estimates of miles traveled by different vehicle types. Truck-car involvement rates increased substantially from 1977 to 1979 but declined in 1980 (mainly for combination vehicles). Other descriptive data are presented on fatality ratios in truck-car fatal crashes by type of truck and weight of car; on type of road; on road alignment; on road wetness; on light condition; on age of driver; on seat belt use; on vehicle rollover; on vehicle fire; on causative factors; on manner of collision; and on time of day and time of week.

• Record URL:
  • http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/309/47346.0001.001.pdf?sequence=2
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• Summary URL:
  • http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/309
• Corporate Authors:

  Highway Safety Research Institute

  Huron Parkway and Baxter Road
  Ann Arbor, MI  United States  48109

  AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety

  8111 Gatehouse Road
  Falls Church, VA  United States  22047
• Authors:
  • Wolfe, A C
  • CARSTEN, O M
• Publication Date: 1982-5

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 87 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Age; Alignment; Automobiles; Crash causes; Drivers; Fires; Manual safety belts; Pavements; Rollover crashes; Traffic crashes; Trucks; Vans; Vehicle weight; Visibility; Wet weather
• Identifier Terms: Fatal Accident Reporting System
• Uncontrolled Terms: Driver age; Wet pavements
• Subject Areas: Highways; Motor Carriers; Pavements; Safety and Human Factors; I80: Accident Studies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00369736
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: UM-HSRI-82-2 Final Rpt., HS-033 594
• Contract Numbers: FP 1043
• Files: HSL, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Jan 31 1983 12:00AM