Table 4: Characteristics of Canadian Truck Crashes (1993-1997)
| Percent of total vehicles involved in: | |||||
| Fatal Crashes | Injury | Property | Crashes | Damage Crashes | |
| 2 vehicles moving in opposite directions: | |||||
| head-on or sideswipe | 36.0 | 7.3 | 3.7 | ||
| 2 vehicles: one turning right | 14.8 | 13.2 | 7.6 | ||
| 1 vehicle: hit object or person | 11.0 | 11.8 | 17.1 | ||
| 2 vehicles: one rear-ends the other | 11.0 | 27.2 | 16.4 | ||
| 2 vehicles: one turns left across traffic | 8.3 | 10.1 | 8.7 | ||
| 2 vehicles moving in same direction: sideswipe | 3.8 | 9.3 | 14.5 | ||
| Other | 15.1 | 21.1 | 32.0 | ||
| 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
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