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
Fatalities
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	^R11,265	11,418
Large	961	1,262	977	705	661	585	605	670	648	621	723	742	^R759	741
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	^R12,024	12,159
Injured persons
Light	N	N	N	505,000	563,000	545,000	601,000	631,000	722,000	761,000	755,000	763,000	847,000	887,000
Large	N	N	N	42,000	28,000	34,000	32,000	30,000	30,000	33,000	31,000	29,000	33,000	31,000
Total	N	N	N	547,000	591,000	579,000	633,000	661,000	752,000	794,000	786,000	792,000	880,000	918,000
Crashes
Light	N	N	N	2,152,000	2,200,000	2,191,000	^R2,407,000	^R2,574,000	^R2,750,000	2,881,000	2,901,000	2,867,000	3,080,000	3,208,000
Large	N	N	N	372,000	319,000	363,000	^R383,000	^R445,000	^R363,000	378,000	421,000	392,000	452,000	438,000
Total^a,R	N	N	N	2,460,000	2,461,000	2,489,000	2,723,000	2,938,000	3,039,000	3,175,000	3,225,000	3,168,000	3,425,000	3,540,000
Vehicle-miles (billions)
Light	204	295	389	556	596	642	675	712	750	787	^R825	^R862	^R903	944
Large	81	108	124	146	150	153	160	170	178	183	191	196	^R203	206
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
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
Injured persons
Light	N	N	N	91	94	85	89	89	96	^R97	^R92	89	94	94
Large	N	N	N	29	19	22	20	18	17	18	16	15	^R16	15
Crashes
Light	N	N	N	387	369	341	^R356	^R362	^R367	366	352	333	^R341	340
Large	N	N	N	^R254	213	^R237	^R240	261	^R204	207	220	200	^R223	213

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

^a Crashes 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 stationwagons, 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, Traffic Safety Facts 1999, DOT HS 809 100 (Washington, DC: December 2000), tables 8 and 9, and personal communication, Nov. 28, 2001.

Crashes:

Ibid., National Center for Statistics and Analysis,Fatality Analysis Reporting System Database and General Estimates System Database, personal communication, Dec. 18, 2001.

Crash rates:

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