Commercial Motor Vehicle and Large Truck-Involved Crashes We examined the Commercial Motor Vehicle (CMV)-involved Crashes and large truck-involved crashes 2 . The City of Fort Worth has a higher than statewide average percentage of CMV and large truck crashes, as shown in Figure 3 and Error! Reference source not found. . Compared to several peer cities, Fort Worth has the highest percentage of CMV and truck-involved crashes despite having the sixth-lowest total number of crashes, just below Austin.
Percentage of CMV and Large Truck Crashes
12%
10%
9.0%
8.6%
7.7%
7.4%
8%
6.9%
6.6%
5.4%
6%
5.2%
5.1%
4.9%
4.8%
4.8%
4%
3.3%
2.6%
2%
0%
State-wide Average
Fort Worth Austin
Dallas
El Paso
Houston San Antonio
% of CMV Crashes
% of Large Truck Crashes
Figure 3: Percentage of CMV and Large Truck Crashes
However, when compared to these other cities in terms of CMV or Large Truck crashes per million commercial vehicle miles traveled (VMT), Fort Worth is the second lowest, only higher than the City of Austin, as shown in
Table 3 .
The results depicted in Figure 3 and Table 3 in combination show that despite not having a higher large truck crash rate considering the amount of freight vehicle movements within the City, when compared to crashes involving other modes, large truck-involved crashes in Fort
2 CMV crashed are identified directly using the CMV flag in CRIS data, while large truck crashes are identified based on vehicle body type. Any crash involves a vehicle with a body type of truck tractor or semi-trailer, as defined in TxDOT SHSP.
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