Study Faults Car Drivers for Most Truck Collisions
A report by the University of Michigan provides additional evidence that automobile drivers are four times more likely to be at fault when cars and heavy-duty trucks collide.
The findings updated an earlier study the institute published in 1998.
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The University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute in Ann Arbor studied 5,500 fatal crashes involving a truck and a passenger vehicle. It found that car drivers were responsible for 70% of the accidents, while truck drivers were responsible for 16% of the crashes.
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Compiled by Dan Blower, assistant research scientist at the institute, the study was intended to validate the findings of the original report and the fatality analysis reporting system.
