Costs of Large Truck-Involved Crashes in the United States

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• Personal Author:
  Miller TR ; Zaloshnja E
• Description:
  This study provides the estimates of the costs of highway crashes involving large trucks by type of truck involved. These costs represent the present value of all costs over the victims' expected life span that result from a crash. They include medically related costs, emergency services costs, property damage costs, lost productivity, and the monetized value of the pain, suffering, and lost quality of life that a family experiences because of death or injury. Based on the latest data available, the estimated cost of police-reported crashes involving trucks with a gross weight rating of more than 10,000 pounds averaged US$ 59,153 (in 2000 dollars). Multiple combination trucks had the highest cost per crash (US$ 88,483). The crash costs per 1000 truck miles however, were US$ 157 for single unit trucks, US$ 131 for single combination trucks, and US$ 63 for multiple combinations. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Mortality Occupational Health Occupational Injuries Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-rates Accidents Injuries Mortality-data Mortality-rates Occupational-accidents Risk-analysis Risk-factors Traumatic-injuries Truck-drivers

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• ISSN:
  0001-4575
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  36
• Issue:
  5
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20029453
• Citation:
  Accid Anal Prev 2004 Sep; 36(5):801-808
• Contact Point Address:
  Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, 11710 Beltsville Drive, Suite 300, Calverton, MD 20705-3102
• Email:
  zaloshn@pire.org
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2004
• Performing Organization:
  Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Calverton, Maryland
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20000601
• Source Full Name:
  Accident Analysis and Prevention
• End Date:
  20040531
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:ae7af90eb58a4d27a6b52f912d0d1f099ec5fe8906ced1fe7c52653c365132abef4a49fd32d27239b1d9ad00cacc0937acb5c9bf116d42ad4f6b82c36fffff8a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/190430/cdc_190430_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 86.51 KB ]