Sentences with phrase «large trucks account»

According to data compiled by the U.S. Department of Transportation and the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration, although large trucks make up only 4.3 % of all motor vehicles registered in the United States, and are involved in only 5.2 % of all traffic accidents, accidents involving large trucks account for nearly 10 % of all traffic accident fatalities — and most of those fatalities are to the occupants of smaller vehicles rather than the trucks.

Large trucks account for a number of deadly collisions.

Not exact matches

Sales of light - duty trucks — which include small, midsize, large, and luxury SUVs — accounted for nearly 10.9 million of the 17.2 million vehicles sold in the US last year.

Heavy - duty vehicles, such as commercial trucks and buses, were by far the largest contributor worldwide, accounting for 76 percent of the total excess NOx emissions.

Heavy - duty vehicles, such as commercial trucks and buses, were found to be, by far, the largest contributor of emissions, accounting for 76 percent of the total excess nitrogen oxide emissions.

Just as the Friedmans explained of the freight trucking industry, that it was «highly competitive» and that «anybody with enough capital to buy a truck could go into the business,» public K - 12 education now faces a similar disruption, thanks in large part to nearly universal access to the internet and the introduction of parent - centered, publicly funded education savings accounts (ESAs).

Transportation accounts for about 14 per cent of global emissions and is now the largest source of CO2 emissions in the U.S., mostly from cars and trucks.

Likewise, you will find that «transportation activities accounted for 28 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2012» with the largest sources being «passenger cars (43.2 percent), light duty trucks, which include sport utility vehicles, pickup trucks, and minivans (18.1 percent), freight trucks (22.2 percent), rail (2.6 percent), and commercial aircraft (6.3 percent)».

However, statistical data on two vehicle crashes that involved a collision of a large truck with a passenger automobile indicates that the occupants inside the passenger vehicle were at greater risk of dying, and accounted for 97 percent of all deaths.

Large trucks, like semis, account for 4 percent of all vehicles involved in injury and property damage crashes.

In fact, low - speed accidents account for a large portion of the truck accidents that occur each year.

Large trucks only accounted for 15 percent of the vehicle accidents.