Evidence Report: Licit Schedule II Drug Use and Commercial Motor Vehicle Driver Safety (Comprehensive Review)

Of all occupations in the United States, workers in the trucking industry experience the third-highest fatality rate, accounting for 12 percent of all worker deaths. About two-thirds of fatally injured truck workers were involved in highway crashes. According to statistics from the United States Department of Transportation for 2005, 137,144 crashes involved a large truck. Of these, 59,405 were crashes that resulted in an injury to at least one individual for a total of 89,681 injuries. In 2004, 4,862 large trucks were involved in fatal crashes for a total of 5,190 fatalities. The purpose of this evidence report is to examine the relationship between the licit use of a Schedule II drug and the risk for a motor vehicle crash.

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• Record URL:
  • https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/16458
• Record URL:
  • https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/16459
• Corporate Authors:

  ECRI Evidence-based Practice Center

  5200 Butler Pike
  Plymouth Meeting, PA  United States  19462

  MANILA Consulting Group, Incorporated

  1420 Beverly Road, Suite 220
  McLean, VA  United States  22101

  Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Publication Date: 2006-10-21

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Edition: Evidence Report
• Features: Appendices; Bibliography; Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 268p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash causes; Crash risk forecasting; Drug effects; Drug use; Drugs; Fatalities; Injuries; Traffic crashes; Truck crashes; Truck drivers; Truck driving; Trucking safety
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01108894
• Record Type: Publication
• Contract Numbers: GS-10F-0177N/DTMC75-05-F-00062
• Files: NTL, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Aug 20 2008 9:10AM