* Virginia - ATA: The truck-involved fatality rate fell for the second straight year to 1.40 per 100 million miles traveled
-- The American Trucking Associations said Thursday that an analysis of data from the Department of Transportation shows over both, the long and short-term, that the rate of truck-involved fatalities is declining... According to ATA’s analysis of miles traveled data from the Federal Highway Administration and highway fatality data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the truck-involved fatality rate fell for the second straight year to 1.40 per 100 million miles traveled. The comparable figures for 2013 and 2012 were 1.44 and 1.47, respectively... Per NHTSA, there were 3,903 truck-involved fatalities in 2014, a decline of 61 total from the previous year. At the same time, the number of miles traveled by large trucks rose to more than 279 billion... Numerous studies have found that trucks are responsible for initiating less than a third of all fatal car-truck crashes, which is why ATA supports aggressive traffic enforcement and education programs aimed at changing the unsafe behaviors of all motorists, ATA President and CEO Bill Graves said...
(Photo A truck wreck in the Lone Star State) -- Arlington, Va., USA - The Trucker News Services – 14 Jan 2016Labels: trucking accidents, trucks' fatalities
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