This chapter contains information on the circumstances of large truck crashes. Below is a summary of some of the information in this section:

• Of the 453,000 police-reported crashes involving large trucks, 4,542 (1 percent) resulted in at least one fatality, and 101,000 (22 percent) resulted in at least one nonfatal injury.

• Single-vehicle crashes made up 18 percent of all fatal crashes, 17 percent of all injury crashes, and 28 percent of all property damage only crashes involving large trucks.

• Two-thirds (67 percent) of all fatal crashes involving large trucks occurred on rural roads, and nearly one-fourth (24 percent) occurred on Interstate highways.

• One-third of all fatal crashes and one-fifth of all property damage only crashes involving large trucks occurred at night.

• The vast majority of fatal crashes (85 percent) and of nonfatal crashes (86 percent) involving large trucks occurred on weekdays (Monday through Friday).

• Collision with a vehicle in transport was the first harmful event in 78 percent of fatal crashes involving large trucks.

• Rollover was the first harmful event in only 4 percent of all fatal crashes involving large trucks and in only 3 percent of all nonfatal crashes involving large trucks.