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Governments Fail in Reporting Rampant Truck, Bus Crashes and Fatalities
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"US states are not fulfilling their obligations to report motor vehicle accidents involving the trucking industry, according to a recent report released by the General Accounting Office. Large trucks make up 3 percent of the nation's registered vehicles, but they were involved in 11 percent of all fatal crashes in 2003.
GAO also noted that nearly a third of bus and truck crashes in fiscal year 2004 weren't reported by states to the federal government. But the report claims there have been improvements at holding states more accountable and at training state and local law enforcement officers, who fill out crash reports.

To reduce the fatality rate, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, or the FMCSA, sets national safety goals and works in partnership with states to reach them. Crash data collected by states and submitted to the FMCSA is key to these efforts, and to be fully useful, this data must be complete, timely, accurate, and collected in a consistent manner.

Overall, commercial motor vehicle crash data does not meet general data quality standards of completeness, timeliness, accuracy, and consistency. For example, FMCSA estimates that nearly one-third of commercial motor vehicle crashes that states are required to report to the federal government were not reported, and those that were reported were not always accurate, timely, or consistent.

States are undertaking four types of activities to improve data quality, including analyzing existing data to identify problems and develop plans for addressing them, reducing backlogs of data that have not been entered into state-level databases, developing and implementing electronic data systems, and providing training.

As a result of these efforts, states have recently improved both the timeliness and the number of reportable crashes submitted to FMCSA. FMCSA has two main efforts to support states in improving their reporting of commercial motor vehicle crash information--a commercial vehicle crash data improvement program and a data quality rating system--and both appear to be beneficial. "

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