Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS)
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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 1998R
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
Large 961 1,262 977 705 661 585 605 670 648 621 723 742
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
Injured persons                        
Light N N N 505,000 563,000 545,000 601,000 631,000 722,000 761,000 755,000 763,000
Large N N N 42,000 28,000 34,000 32,000 30,000 30,000 33,000 31,000 29,000
Total N N N 547,000 591,000 579,000 633,000 661,000 752,000 794,000 786,000 792,000
Crashes                        
Light N N N 2,152,000 2,200,000 2,191,000 2,395,000 2,564,000 2,709,000 2,881,000 2,901,000 2,867,000
Large N N N 372,000 319,000 363,000 381,000 444,000 362,000 378,000 421,000 392,000
Total N N N 2,524,000 2,519,000 2,554,000 2,776,000 3,008,000 3,071,000 3,175,000 3,225,000 3,259,000
Vehicle-miles (billions)                        
Light 204 295 389 556 596 642 675 712 750 787 824 860
Large 81 108 124 146 150 153 160 170 178 183 191 196
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
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
Injured persons                        
Light N N N 91 94 85 89 89 96 98 93 89
Large N N N 29 19 22 20 18 17 18 16 15
Crashes                        
Light N N N 387 369 341 355 360 361 366 352 333
Large N N N 255 213 238 238 261 203 207 220 200

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

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 representativeprobability 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 editionsillustrated 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 differentvehicle 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 1998, DOT HS 808 983 (Washington, DC:October 1999), tables 8 and 9, and personal communication, Sept.11, 2000.
Crashes:
Ibid., National Center for Statistics and Analysis, Fatality Analysis Reporting System Database and General Estimates System Database, 1998; and personal communication, Sept. 11, 2000.
Crash rates:
Calculated by the U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics.



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