Monday,
April 22, 2002
FMCSA 8-02
Contact: David Longo
Telephone: 202-366-0456
Statement
by FMCSA Administrator Clapp On
Preliminary Estimates of Large Truck Fatalities
According to U.S. Department of Transportation
preliminary estimates involving large truck crashes, fatalities declined
slightly from 5,211 in 2000 to 5,192 in 2001.
Truck-related fatalities in 1999 were 5,380 and in 1998 the number was
5,395.
In response to these reports, Federal Motor
Carrier Safety Administrator Joseph M. Clapp said, “Although fatalities
involving large trucks appear to have decreased for the fourth year in a row,
the fact that more than 5,000 of our sons and daughters, mothers and fathers,
sisters, brothers, grandparents, sweethearts, and friends are being lost every
year is intolerable. This apparent
improvement is heartening and encourages us to work closer and harder with our
safety partners in federal, state and local government, the private sector, and
all those interested in improving motor carrier safety.”
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