Overview
A truck is defined as a vehicle with registered weight of 10,000 pounds or more. Truck crashes included both single unit and combination trucks. For the 2000 to 2004 period Kentucky recorded 659,162 total crashes. Trucks were involved in 47,218 crashes, which correspond to 7.2% of total crashes. In 2004, truck crashes represent 7.5% of all crashes, 6.4% of injury crashes and 14.1% of fatal crashes.
Emphasis Area Goal
Reduce the fatality rate involving commercial motor vehicles by 12% over the 2003 rate of 1.88 fatalities per million truck vehicle-miles traveled.
Strategies
- ? Increase police personnel assigned to traffic enforcement.
- ? Increase public perception of traffic enforcement efforts.
- ? Outfit a tractor and trailer display unit with educational displays concerning CMV safety.
- ? Disseminate the commercial safety information to the public through community events such as fairs and parades, and industry events such as the Mid-America Truck Show and the National Farm Machinery Show.
- ? Institute a regional Public Information Officer program to disseminate news of Kentucky Vehicle Enforcement programs and services in each of its ten Regions.
- ? Open weigh facilities for parking as a short term strategy and provide adequate rest haven parking as funding is available in the long term.
Performance Measures
- Number of events organized for public education
- Number of weigh facilities opened for truck parking
- Number of total/fatal/injury crashes
