Commercial Motor Vehicle Crash Statistics

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Commercial Motor Vehicle Facts
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
February 2004

2002 Police-Reported Motor Vehicle Traffic Crashes

Crash Type	Large Trucks*	All Vehicles
Fatal	4,183	38,309
Injury	90,000	1,929,000
Property Damage Only	322,000	4,348,000
Total	416,000	6,305,000

Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS)
and General Estimates System (GES).
*Note: A large truck is defined as a truck with gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) greater than 10,000 pounds.

2002 Traffic Crash Victims

	In Large Truck Crashes	In All Vehicle Crashes
Killed	4,897	42,815
Injured	130,000	2,926,000

Source: NHTSA, Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) and General Estimates System (GES).

2002 Fatality and Injury Rates

	Large Trucks	All Vehicles
Vehicle Miles Traveled	214,530,000,000	2,855,756,000,000
Fatality Rate per 100 Million Vehicle Miles Traveled	2.3	1.5
Injury Rate per 100 Million Vehicle Miles Traveled	60.5	102.5
Total	416,000	6,305,000

Sources: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Highway Statistics 2002 , Table VM-1;
and NHTSA, Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) and General Estimates System (GES).

1997-1999 Average Costs of Truck Crashes (2002 Dollars)

Average Cost per Crash	$59,153
Average Total Cost per Year	$19.6 billion

Source: Ted Miller, Eduard Zaloshnja, Rebecca Spicer, Revised Cost of Large Truck and Bus Involved Crashes
(2002).

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