Annual Toll of vehicle accidents in US

The U.S. Department of Transportation and Federal Transit Administration drug and alcohol regulations released the Best practices while driving, where the annual toll of possible accidents were recorded. The statistics state:

1. 24,000 people will die on the highway due to the legally impaired driver. 
2. 12,000 more will die on the highway due to the alcohol-affected driver. 
3. 15,800 will die in non-highway accidents.
4. 30,000 will die due to alcohol-caused liver disease. 
5. 10,000 will die due to alcohol-induced brain disease or suicide. 
6. Up to another 125,000 will die due to alcohol-related conditions or accidents

Criteria for FRA to investigate an accident

The FRA ( Federal Railway Administration) is an active department of DOT (Department of Transportation) US.

FRA investigates accidents and incidents when the following criteria is met:
• Any highway-rail grade crossing accident resulting in:
- Death to one or more persons in a commercial vehicle or school bus;
- Serious injury to several persons transported by such vehicles;
- Death to three or more persons in a private highway vehicle; or
- No fatality, but involving a malfunction or failure of an active warning device which allegedly contributed to or caused the accident

2 college students killed in car crash in Texas

Two teen students have died in a car accident. One student was from the Texas Tech University and the other student was from University of Houston. The two students were Rachel Yassow of Montgomery, 21, and Trace Thornton of Spring, 22. Both died in spot of the accident when their car slammed into the rear of a semi-trailer truck.
The accident occurred when the semi-trailer was slowing down to make a right turn into a convenience store. At that time the car slammed into the back of the truck. There was no proof of usage of drugs or alcohol has been found.

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Distraction reasons while driving

Various reasons of distraction that causes fatal accidents

Driver inattention has long been regarded as a frequent contributing factor to crashes. Different
studies have suggested that driver inattention, including secondary task engagement and
drowsiness, contributes to 25 percent (Wang, Knipling, and Goodman, 1996) to 78 percent
(Klauer, Dingus, Neale, Sudweeks, & Ramsey, 2006) of all crashes. These large percentages
become even more worrisome given the proliferation of portable wireless devices that are being
brought into vehicles with increasing frequency. Examples include cell phones, iPods,
BlackBerries, navigation devices, and portable DVD players. Two analyses that would greatly
improve our understanding of the driver distraction problem are: 1) a calculation of the relative
crash risks associated with types of driver distraction, and 2) a characterization of the
relationship between the frequency, duration, and the subsequent total time eyes-off-road
(TEOR) of these types of distractions, in a real-world driving environment.

Truck accident statistics in Texas

Did you know ?

Texas, California, and Florida had the greatest number of truck involvements over the
period 2002 to 2006.

The truck accidents in Texas has not gone down in number since 2002 to 2006 in US according to the statistics by IFA
In 2004 there were 445 fatal truck accidents in Texas and then in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006 it is recorded as 507, 482, 512, 512, 2458 respectively.

Strt Truck

Strt/1trailer

Bobtail

Trac/1 semi

Trac/2 trlrs

Oth combs

Unknown

Total

State

No.

Pct.

No.

Pct.

No.

Pct.

No.

Pct.

No.

Pct.

No.

Pct.

No.

Pct.

No.

Pct.

Texas

137

8.6

28

11.1

10

9.8

319

10.4

13

8.3

4

11.1

1

2.0

512

9.8

• 2.7% of truck drivers involved in a fatal traffic accident had been drinking.
•  Drug use was reported for 1.3% of truck drivers in a fatal crash.
•  96.0% of truck drivers involved in a fatal accident were male.
•  784 truck drivers were fatally injured in a traffic accident.
•  1.5% of truck drivers involved in a fatal accident were recorded as drowsy or asleep.
•  Failure to stay in lane was the most common driver factor recorded (12.6%), followed by driving too fast (8.4%), inattentive (5.8%), and failure to yield (4.3%). Cellular phone in use was cited for 0.1% of drivers.
• 60.3% of truck drivers had no driver factors recorded.
• 43.2% of straight truck drivers are paid by the hour, compared with 13.9% of tractor semitrailer drivers. Drivers of tractor-semitrailers are most commonly paid by the mile (26.9%), compared to 0.6% of straight truck drivers. However, method of compensation could not be determined in 38.3% of involvements.
• Drivers of government-owned and private company trucks are predominately paid by the hour, 68.8% and 46.1%, respectively.
• Drivers of 26.2% of Intrastate trucks and 14.7% of Interstate trucks had been driving one hour or less at the time of the accident.

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