The Unsafe Driving Acts of Motorists in the Vicinity of Large Trucks

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• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Fatalities
  • Crash causes
  • High risk drivers
  • Collisions
  • Trucking safety
  • Truck crashes
  • Unsafe driving acts (UDA)
• Publication/ Report Number:
  MCRT-00-002
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/1502919
• Resource Type:
  Brief
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
• Abstract:
  In 1996 large trucks composed 8% of all vehicles involved in fatal crashes; however, truck-involved crashes resulted in 12% of the total fatalities. Occupants of large trucks compose only 14% of the fatalities resulting from fatal truck crashes; 86% of the fatalities occur outside the truck, to pedestrians, cyclists, and primarily, the occupants of passenger vehicles. By identifying behaviors that lead to collisions between passenger vehicles and large trucks, countermeasures can be developed to further reduce the incidence and severity of crashes. This tech brief summarizes a study concerning unsafe driving acts (UDAs) of motorists in the vicinity of large trucks. UDAs are defined as motorist behaviors that contribute to collisions. 4 p.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/14290/dot_14290_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 301.15 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
• Main Document Checksum:
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