Truck accidents can have horrifying consequences, especially when a large, fully-loaded tractor trailer collides with a small passenger vehicle. In 2010, however, most truck accidents left no one injured and caused only property damage, according to a recent report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol.
Accidents involving single- or multi-unit tractor-trailers caused property damage in 7,898 separate situations in 2010, according to the state highway patrol’s report. Meanwhile, 1,173 people were injured in tractor-trailer accidents and 83 lost their lives. While these numbers are still unacceptably high – especially for those who were injured or lost a loved one in one of these accidents – they are significantly better than the rates for death and injury in Missouri passenger vehicle accidents in 2010.
Another category in which deaths were rare but property damage common was among commercial buses (not school buses). Only three people lost their lives in commercial bus [...]
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