• Commercial motor vehicles logged about 300 billion vehicle miles traveled across the U.S. in 2014.

• Of the 6 million vehicle crashes that occurred in the U.S. in 2014, 476,000 involved large trucks and buses — an 18% increase from the previous year. 

• 13% of all highway fatalities in 2014 were in crashes involving a large truck or bus; 6% of all highway-related injuries involved crashes with a large truck or bus; and 61% of all fatal crashes involving large trucks occur on rural roads.
   
• 7 out of 10 people killed in crashes involving large trucks are occupants of the other vehicles.
   
• 30% of fatal work zone crashes involved at least one large truck, a rate that is significantly higher than the 11% of all fatal crashes that involve at least one truck.
   
• Bicyclists and pedestrians made up 9.4% of people killed in crashes involving large trucks in 2014. 

Fatal Large Truck and Bus Crashes, 2014