Medium-Truck Special Study

Mynatt, Mark; Zhang, Fan; Brophy, John; Subramanian, Rajesh; Morgan, Tina

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Medium-Truck Special Study

2022-09-01
By Mynatt, Mark ; Zhang, Fan ; Brophy, John ; ...

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Creators:

Mynatt, Mark ; Zhang, Fan ; Brophy, John ; Subramanian, Rajesh ; Morgan, Tina
Corporate Creators:

United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. National Center for Statistics and Analysis
Subject/TRT Terms:

Crash Avoidance Systems Fatalities Injury Severity Truck Crashes
Publication/ Report Number:

DOT HS 813 371
Resource Type:

Tech Report
Geographical Coverage:

United States
Edition:

NHTSA Technical Report
Corporate Publisher:

United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Abstract:

This technical report describes the sample design, data collection, data coding, weighting, estimation methods, and findings of the Medium-Truck Special Study (MTSS), the purpose of which is to identify critical reasons for the critical events and causal factors in fatal crashes and to assess if crash avoidance technologies could have affected the crashes and injury severity of medium-truck crashes. Forty-two percent of the medium trucks in MTSS were pickup trucks, and the remaining 58 percent were single-unit straight truck or cab-chassis medium trucks. The Critical Reason for the Critical Event was assigned to a medium truck in 42 percent of the MTSS fatal crashes. In 56 percent of the total estimated vehicles involved in the fatal MTSS crashes, Forward Collision Warning and Automatic Emergency Braking, if available and not disabled, were deemed to have possibly or probably been effective in reducing the severity and/or preventing the crash. The braking technologies showed much higher potential than lane (18%) and blind spot (less than 1%) technologies.
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PDF
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US Transportation Collection
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