Truck Crash Facts

Trucks are an important mode of economic connectivity in rural states like North Dakota. The size/mass difference between 80,000 pound trucks and 4,000 pound passenger vehicles, along with operational differences such as acceleration/deceleration times and turning radiuses, heighten risk for crash events. Non-truck injury crashes have declined over recent years while truck injury crashes increased. Truck injury crash incidence (includes fatal injuries), 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. Trucks were involved in 8% of injury crashes between 2008 and 2012, and 15% of severe injury crashes. Over 90% of fatal and disabling injury crashes involving trucks in the past five years occurred on rural roads - 1 in 5 of these were on rural local roads.

• Record URL:
  http://www.ugpti.org/rtssc/briefs/downloads/2013_TruckCrashFacts.pdf
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• Summary URL:
  http://www.ugpti.org/resources/reports/details.php?id=ib53
• Publication Date: 2013-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: 1p
• 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
• Geographic Terms: North Dakota
• Subject Areas: Highways; Motor Carriers; Safety and Human Factors; I81: Accident Statistics;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01497281
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 29 2013 9:37AM