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Do tractor-trailers have high crash rates?

April 26, 2017crash high rates tractor-trailers

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Do tractor-trailers have high crash rates?

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Tractor-trailers are involved in more fatal crashes per unit of travel than passenger cars — 2.6 compared with 1.7 per 100 million miles traveled in 2001 — even though a much higher proportion of tractor-trailer miles are traveled on well-designed interstate highways.