GAO Says Crash Data System Has Improved

hough the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has improved its system of collecting and processing truck crash data, the agency must do more to ensure the data’s integrity, a Government Accountability Office report said.

While FMCSA has taken steps to improve its crash data reporting systems, “its commercial motor vehicle crash data does not yet meet general data quality standards of completeness, timeliness, accuracy and consistency,” said the GAO report published Nov. 18.

GAO said even FMCSA “estimates that nearly one-third of commercial motor vehicle crashes that states are required to report to the federal government were not reported — and those that were reported were not always accurate, timely or consistent.”