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Summary

Truck crashes and casualties

FR008 Fatal truck crashes per 100 million km travelled by trucks

The number of fatal crashes that involve a truck for every 100 million km driven by trucks has dropped by about a third since the early 2000s. There has been little change since 2008.

Definition	Fatal truck crashes per 100 million km travelled by trucks.
Nature of data	Quantitative
Primary source	NZ Transport Agency - Crash Analysis System (CAS) for number of crashes; Ministry of Transport analysis based on truck WoF odometer readings for number of vehicle kilometres travelled
Custodian of data	Ministry of Transport
URL	URL should be changed to 'Data plotted here is fatal truck crashes shown in FR010 divided by the VKTs. VKTs are from the as-yet-unpublished 2017 version of https://transport.govt.nz/assets/Uploads/Data/NZ-Vehicle-Fleet-Graphs-2016-web3.xlsx tabs 1.4 to 1.7, column T.
Frequency	Annually from 2001
Disaggregation	National
Quality of the data	Good
Next Update	February

FR010 Fatal and injury truck crashes

Fatal truck crashes have not exceeded 60 per year since 2007, a level significantly lower than in earlier years. Injury truck crashes declined sharply in the 1970s, but have fluctuated since then.

Definition	Fatal and injury truck crashes
Nature of data	Quantitative
Primary source	NZ Transport Agency - Crash Analysis System (CAS)
Custodian of data	Ministry of Transport
URL	https://transport.govt.nz/assets/Uploads/Data/section3-trucks-web.xlsx
Frequency	Annually from 1970
Disaggregation	National
Quality of the data	Good
Next Update	September

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Trucks

Summary

Truck crashes and casualties

FR008 Fatal truck crashes per 100 million km travelled by trucks

FR010 Fatal and injury truck crashes