Inc. South Carolina State Highway Department v. Barnwell Bros. - Big Rig Road Hazards
percent truck involving survey
- Fatigue and lack of sleep are the number one causes of collisions involving big trucks.
- A National Transportation Safety Board survey found that fatigue was a factor in 30 to 40 percent of truck accidents.
- In more than 30 percent of crashes in which a truck driver died, fatigue was the most likely cause.
- In one survey, at least 19 percent of truck drivers admitted to falling asleep at the wheel within the past month.
- A survey of long-haul truckers driving from Washington to Minnesota demonstrated that nearly 60 percent of those trucks drove longer than they were supposed to.
- Logging false hours is so common that many drivers call them "comic books" or "joke books."
- Truckers attribute their willingness to break hours of service rules to financial pressures.
- One out of eight traffic fatalities in 1997 resulted from an accident involving a big rig.
- 98 percent of the people killed in two-vehicle accidents involving a passenger vehicle and a large truck in 1997 were occupants of the passenger vehicle.
- In 1997, 717 large truck occupants died, a 16 percent increase over 1996.
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