Who dies in crashes involving large trucks?
About 5,000 people die each year in crashes involving large trucks and about 85 percent of them aren’t truck occupants. In fatal two-vehicle crashes involving passenger vehicles and large trucks, 98 percent of the deaths occur to the people in the passenger vehicles. Large trucks accounted for 3 percent of registered vehicles and 8 percent of vehicle miles traveled in 2002 but were involved in 11 percent of all passenger vehicle occupant deaths and in 21 percent of multiple-vehicle passenger vehicle occupant deaths.
