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Abstract:
This document reviews casualty collisions (fatalities and injuries) involving heavy trucks in Canada from 2001 to 2005. Collisions involving heavy trucks include all vehicles in these collisions, such as passenger cars, light trucks and vans, heavy trucks, buses, motorcycles/mopeds and bicycles, as well as all other road users in these collisions including pedestrians. The report presents the heavy truck travel exposure, heavy truck involvement rates in fatal and injury collisions, and the victims in these heavy truck collisions. The report also presents collision characteristics for all heavy truck collisions and separately for single-vehicle heavy truck casualty collisions. Examples of the collision characteristics are the number of vehicles in heavy truck collisions, hour and month of the collision, weather and road surface environmental conditions, road classification, and collision configuration.
This document reviews the number of collisions, vehicles involved, and casualties (fatalities and injuries) resulting from heavy truck collisions for ...
United States. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. National Center for Statistics and Analysis.
1996-01-01 | NHTSA BSR Traffic Safety Facts
Abstract:
In 1995, 376,000 large trucks (gross vehicle weight rating greater than 10,000 pounds) were involved in traffic crashes in the United States; 4,453 we...
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