Approximately 10 percent of truck collision fatalities (348 deaths) happened on minor roads while the majority of truck
crash deaths totaling 2157 (60 percent) happened on other major roads.
Not exact matches
Nationwide, the economic burden from
crash - related injuries and
deaths in one year alone
totaled $ 12 billion.
In Illinois, like elsewhere in the nation, rollover incidents account for a very small number of the
total crashes but a relatively high proportion of the
total deaths caused in traffic accidents.
Although
crashes involving pedestrians, bicyclists and motorcyclists are less common than car accidents in Chicago (accounting for 1.7 percent, 1.3 percent and 1.5 percent of the
total crashes in Illinois, respectively), these accidents are more likely to cause serious injury or
death.
According to the Centers for Disease Control (the CDC), in the U.S., more than 10,000 people die each year in drunk driving
crashes (that's about thirty people per day), accounting for roughly 1 / 3rd of the
total deaths that result from traffic accidents each year in the United States.
To be sure, not only does speeding lead to
crashes that cause injuries and
death, but the annual economic cost related to speed - related incidents
totals more than $ 40 billion.
This
total includes 2,745
deaths from residential fires, 310 from vehicle
crash fires, and 220 from other sources.
Nationwide, the economic burden from
crash - related injuries and
deaths in one year alone
totaled $ 12 billion.
While the
total number of
crash deaths has dropped in the past ten years, the number of fatalities where teen passengers were present has risen dramatically.