Rigid truck fatalities on the rise
The latest Government report on fatalities involving heavy vehicles shows deaths stemming from rigid truck crashes are growingAccording to a report just released by the Australian Government's Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development (Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics), a total of 220 people died in 188 fatal crashes involving heavy trucks or buses in the 12 months to the end of March 2015.
Some 113 deaths stemmed from 95 accidents involving articulated trucks, while 87 deaths were related to 77 crashes involving rigid trucks and 22 deaths resulted from crashes involving buses.
Fatal crashes involving articulated trucks are falling, the report's data suggests – by 5.9 per cent with the corresponding period one year earlier and by 8.5 per cent over the three years to March 2015.
The figures aren't so rosy for rigid trucks, however. Fatal crashes involving heavy rigid trucks actually increased by 10.0 per cent compared with the corresponding period one year earlier and increased by an average of 6.0 per cent over the three years to March 2015.
To read the full report, titled, Fatal Heavy Vehicle Crashes Australia quarterly bulletin Jan – Mar 2015, click here.
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