How often are truckers at fault in crashes?
Some safety facts from the American Trucking Associations: · In two-vehicle crashes involving a large truck and passenger vehicle, driver-related crash factors were coded for 26 percent of the truck drivers involved. In contrast, driver-related factors were coded for 82 percent of the passenger vehicle drivers involved. · Drivers of passenger vehicles involved in fatal collisions with trucks were more likely than the drivers of trucks to be under 26 or over 65 years old, to have invalid drivers licenses, to be legally drunk, and to be cited for driver-related crash factors. · In fatal crashes, three-fourths (76%) of truck drivers were using their seat belts, compared with only half (49%) of passenger vehicle drivers. The difference may account, in part, for the disproportionate number of passenger vehicle drivers killed in crashes with large trucks. · It is more than twice as likely in fatal crashes between large trucks and passenger vehicles that the truck is struck in the rear than t
