Truck Safety-Related Facts and Figures

Some facts and figures that are concerned, directly or indirectly, with truck safety are as follows  

During the period 1976-1987, fatalities of truck occupants in the United States decreased from 1,130 in 1976 to 852 in 1987 [5]. 

During the period 1993-2003, the fatal crash rate for large trucks in the United States declined by 20% [1]. 

In 2003, out of 4,986 fatalihes that occurred from crashes involving large trucks in the United States, 14% were occupants of large trucks, 78% were occupants of another vehicle, and 8% were nonoccupants [1,6. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), commercial drivers in the United States experience more job-related deaths than any other profession [1, 7]. 

4 Commonly Cited Truck Safety-Related Problems, 

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Chapters 7 and 8 are devoted to rail safety and to truck and bus safety, respectively. Chapter 7 covers topics such as causes of railway-related accidents and incidents, general classifications of rail accidents by effects and causes, rail derailment accidents and incidents and their causes, telescoping-related railway accidents, railway accidents in selected countries, railroad tank car safety, and methods for performing rail safety analysis. Some of the topics covered in Chapter 8 are top truck and bus safety issues, truck safety-related facts and figures, the most-cited truck safety-related problems, safety-related truck inspection tips, bus and coach occupant fatalities and serious injuries, transit bus safety and key design-related safety feature areas, and vehicle safety data sources. 

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