BTS | Table 2-23: Truck Occupant Safety Data

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Table 2-23: Truck Occupant Safety Data

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	1975	1980	1985	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001
Fatalities, total	5,817	8,748	7,666	9,306	9,052	8,683	9,116	9,574	10,216	10,553	10,972	11,447	12,024	^R12,280	12,381
Light	4,856	7,486	6,689	8,601	8,391	8,098	8,511	8,904	9,568	9,932	10,249	10,705	11,265	^R11,526	11,677
Large	961	1,262	977	705	661	585	605	670	648	621	723	742	759	^R754	704
Injured persons^E, total	N	N	N	546,966	590,632	578,435	632,976	661,619	752,840	794,238	785,733	791,273	879,757	917,398	889,951
Light	N	N	N	505,144	562,601	544,657	600,874	631,411	722,496	761,478	754,820	762,506	846,865	886,566	860,527
Large	N	N	N	41,822	28,031	33,778	32,102	30,208	30,344	32,760	30,913	28,767	32,892	30,832	29,424
Crashes^E, total	N	N	N	2,459,908	2,460,561	2,488,936	2,722,506	2,937,998	3,039,159	3,175,497	3,225,320	3,167,967	3,425,409	3,539,797	3,560,956
Light	N	N	N	2,152,486	2,200,134	2,191,171	2,407,212	2,573,701	2,749,596	2,880,782	2,900,896	2,866,729	3,079,617	3,207,738	3,254,027
Large	N	N	N	371,801	318,637	362,807	383,220	444,697	362,883	378,335	421,377	391,807	452,444	437,861	409,352
Vehicle-miles (millions)
Light	204,274	295,475	388,778	555,659	595,924	642,397	675,353	711,515	749,971	787,255	824,896	861,951	903,314	^R942,853	972,649
Large	81,330	108,491	123,504	146,242	149,543	153,384	159,888	170,216	178,156	182,971	191,477	196,380	202,688	^R205,520	207,686
Rates per 100 million vehicle-miles
Fatalities
Light	2.4	2.5	1.7	1.5	1.4	1.3	1.3	1.3	1.3	1.3	1.2	1.2	1.2	1.2	1.2
Large	1.2	1.2	0.8	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.3
Injured persons^E
Light	N	N	N	91	94	85	89	89	96	97	92	88	94	94	88
Large	N	N	N	29	19	22	20	18	17	18	16	15	16	15	14
Crashes^E
Light	N	N	N	387	369	341	356	362	367	366	352	333	341	340	335
Large	N	N	N	254	213	237	240	261	204	207	220	200	223	213	197

KEY: E = estimated; N = data do not exist; R = revised.

^aCrashes often involve more than one type of truck (light or large), hence "total truck crashes" is smaller than the sum of the components.

NOTES

Large trucks - trucks over 10,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating, including single-unit trucks and truck tractors. Light trucks - trucks of 10,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating or less, including pickups, vans, truck-based station wagons, and utility vehicles. The injury and crash data in this table are from the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) General Estimates System (GES). The data from GES, which began operation in 1988, are obtained from a nationally representative probability sample selected from all police-reported crashes. The GES sample includes only crashes where a police accident report was completed and the crash resulted in property damage, injury, or death. The resulting figures do not take into account crashes that were not reported to the police or that did not result in property damage.

The 1993 National Transportation Statistics (NTS) Historical Compendium and earlier editions illustrated crashes and injury figures estimated by the National Safety Council, which used a different set of methods to arrive at its figures. Thus, the injury and crash figures in this edition of NTS may not be comparable with those found in the Compendium and earlier editions.

USDOT, Bureau of Transportation Statistics rounded vehicle-miles to the nearest billion.

Vehicle-miles in this table and in table 2-19 are taken from NHTSA revised data and are not based exclusively on USDOT, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) data, as they have been in earlier reports. The change was made to reflect the different vehicle classification schemes used by FHWA and NHTSA. Thus, vehicle-miles for passenger cars and light and large trucks in table 2-19 and this table should not be compared with vehicle-miles in Chapter 1, which are taken directly from FHWA.

SOURCES

Fatalities, injuries, vehicle-miles, fatality and injury rates:

U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, National Center for Statistics and Analysis, Traffic Safety Facts 2001, DOT HS 809 484 (Washington, DC: December 2002), tables 8, 9, and personal communication, Sept. 10, 2002.

Crashes:

Ibid., National Center for Statistics and Analysis, Fatality Analysis Reporting System Database and General Estimates System Database, personal communication, Sept. 10, 2002.

Crash rates:

Calculated by the U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics.