Heavy trucks and road crashes.

Author(s)
Mayhew, D.R. Simpson, H.M. & Beirness, D.J.
Year
Abstract

In Canada in 2001, 524 persons died and a further 11,574 were injured in collisions involving a heavy truck. Heavy truck crashes account for almost one-fifth of all motor vehicle deaths and 5% of all the injuries. The per-vehicle fatality and injury rates for heavy trucks are much higher than for all types of vehicles. Heavy trucks also have higher per-distance rates of fatal crash but lower rates of injury crashes than for all types of vehicles. Most of the deaths (87% of them) and injuries (74% of them) in collisions involving heavy trucks were among people other than the truck occupants. (Author/publisher)

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Library number
C 28521 [electronic version only]
Source

Ottawa, Ontario, Traffic Injury Research Foundation of Canada TIRF, 2004, IV + 18 p., 5 ref.

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