The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has given high priority to research regarding collisions between large trucks (gross vehicle weight > 4,540 kilograms (10,000 pounds)) and other vehicles on the roadway. This research aims to improve knowledge about the high-risk behaviors of truck and passenger vehicle (car) drivers. In 1998, large trucks accounted for 7 percent of the total vehicle miles traveled but were involved in 13 percent of all traffic fatalities (5,374 of 41,471). In these truck crashes, the cars occupants were much more likely than the truck driver to be killed (78 percent of the fatalities were car occupants) or injured (76 percent of the injuries were sustained by car occupants).(1) Two-thirds of all police-reported truck crashes involved a truck and another vehicle, and 60 percent of all truck crashes involving a fatality were two-vehicle car-truck crashes. To address this critical issue, FMCSA has set a goal to reduce truck-involved fatal crashes by 41 percent by 2008. Meeting this goal will require improving truck safety and enhancing truck and car driver's behavior and performance.
Examination of Fault, Unsafe Driving Acts, and Total Harm in Car-Truck Collisions. Summary Report
2009
8 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Transportation Safety , Road Transportation , Transportation & Traffic Planning , Transportation , Driver behavior , Motor vehicle accidents , Accident investigations , Truck accidents , Accident analysis , Heavy duty vehicles , Roads , High-risk behaviors , Passenger vehicles , Traffic safety , Fatalities , Injuries , Highway Safety Information System (HSIS)
Examination of Fault, Unsafe Driving Acts, and Total Harm in Car-Truck Collisions
Transportation Research Record | 2003
|Examination of Fault, Unsafe Driving Acts, and Total Harm in Car-Truck Collisions
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2003
|Examination of Fault, Unsafe Driving Acts, and Total Harm in Car-Truck Collisions
Online Contents | 2003
|Analysis of speed and other unsafe driving acts : final report
TIBKAT | 1990
|