The report provides one-way frequencies for all the vehicles in UMTRI's file of Trucks Involved in Fatal Accidents, 1986. The file combines the coverage of the Fatal Accident Reporting System (FARS) data with the detail of the Office of Motor Carriers (OMC) data. Where no OMC report could be found for a medium or heavy truck listed by FARS, UMTRI conducted a survey, by telephone interview, to obtain the desired information on ownership, type of trip, vehicle configuration, cargo weights, and lengths. Tractors accounted for 70.7% of the power units. Tractors with twin trailers made up only 4.5% of the involvements. Only 20.7% of the accidents occurred on Interstate highways. Night and twilight comprised 37.7% of the accidents. This dataset has 5,244 cases, down 2.9% from 5,400 last year.


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    Title :

    Trucks Involved in Fatal Accidents, 1986. Center for National Truck Statistics


    Contributors:
    D. Blower (author) / L. Pettis (author) / K. P. Sullivan (author)

    Publication date :

    1990


    Size :

    120 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English







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