What is the Feature?
This month's feature showcases the Large Truck Crash Facts Report located in the National Profiles area of the Crash Statistics module. The Large Truck Crash Facts Report is updated annually and contains descriptive statistics about fatal, injury, and property damage-only crashes involving large trucks in 2006. This year’s report includes, for the first time, ten tables that show bus crash statistics.
The major sources for the data contained in the report come from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), Motor Carrier Management Information System (MCMIS), and General Estimates System (GES).
What can I learn from this Feature?
The Large Truck Crash Facts report was designed to presents a variety of large truck crash statistics, including trend information and data on various crash characteristics. The report is organized into four chapters (Trends, Crashes, Vehicles, and People) which allow users to easily find the data that is of most interest to them.
For example, if you were interested in determining how the current year’s data compares to prior years, you would refer to the Trends chapter. In this chapter you would find large truck crash statistics originating with the first year in which statistics were available for that data source. (A)
The Crashes chapter contains information on the circumstances, e.g., time of day, first harmful event, etc. surrounding large truck crashes while the Vehicles chapter presents information on large trucks, such as, cargo body type, gross vehicle weight rating, etc. involved in crashes. The People chapter contains information on drivers of large trucks and on people killed or injured in large truck crashes. It also includes some statistics for passenger vehicle drivers in order to make comparisons.
From the People chapter, the example below (B) displays a table of drivers involved in fatal crashes by driver- related factors and violations recorded.
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