A Fatal Heavy Vehicle Crashes-Quarterly Bulletins is a quarterly publication tracking counts of fatal crashes that involve heavy vehicles across Australia.
For example:
During the 12 months to the end of March 2014, 207 people died from 180 fatal crashes involving heavy trucks or buses. These included: • 114 deaths from 99 crashes involving articulated trucks, • 86 deaths from 75 crashes involving heavy rigid trucks, • 13 deaths from 12 crashes involving buses. Fatal crashes involving articulated trucks: • decreased by 10.8 per cent compared with the corresponding period one year earlier, • decreased by an average of 7.0 per cent per year over the three years to March 2014. Fatal crashes involving heavy rigid trucks: • decreased by 10.7 per cent compared with the corresponding period one year earlier, • increased by an average of 8.5 per cent per year over the three years to March 2014.