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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