New Study Finds Auto Drivers Cause 56% of Car-Truck Crashes

ighway crashes involving a large truck and an automobile are more likely to be caused by the car driver than the truck driver, according to the federal government’s top truck-safety agency.

"For two-vehicle crashes involving a truck and a passenger vehicle, trucks were assigned the critical reason in 44% of the crashes and passenger vehicles in 56%," the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said in a long-awaited crash-causation study.

The report, obtained by Transport Topics, was mandated by the 1999 law that created FMCSA and was sent to Congress earlier this month.