State Patrol wins national award for improving large truck safety


For its success in improving commercial motor vehicle traffic safety, the Wisconsin State Patrol received the Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program’s (MCSAP) Leadership Award for 2008 from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.


 


The Wisconsin State Patrol won the overall leadership award for large states (those that receive more than $3 million in MCSAP funding) after being evaluated in the areas of traffic enforcement, commercial vehicle fatality rate, data quality and number of state-conducted safety compliance reviews. The MCSAP Leadership Award recognized those state agencies that performed well in all evaluated categories.


 


The State Patrol also received honorable mention awards for large states in the individual categories of Traffic Enforcement Improvement, Fatality Rate Improvement, and Compliance Review Improvement.


 


State Patrol Superintendent David Collins credits the agency’s commercial motor vehicle inspectors for earning the national award. “The Wisconsin State Patrol has highly trained inspectors patrolling highways and stationed at our safety and weight enforcement facilities, also known as truck scales, who enforce commercial motor vehicle safety laws,” he says. “Their mission is to remove unsafe and fatigued commercial drivers from the road and to ensure that all safety equipment on large trucks and other commercial vehicles is operating properly. The State Patrol also works with trucking and other motor carrier companies to keep them informed of safety regulations so they can take measures to prevent crashes.”


 


A combination of rigorous law enforcement and effective traffic safety education has helped reduce large-truck crashes in Wisconsin during the last 10 years.  See attached chart:


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Wisconsin Large Truck Crash Statistics


SOURCE: WisDOT Traffic Accident Database


 
















































































 


1997


1998


1999


2000


2001


2002


2003


2004


2005


2006


2007


 


02-06


5-year average


2007


% change from


5-year average


Large Truck Crashes


 


8,853


 


8,841


 


9,146


 


9,657


 


8,508


 


8,165


 


7,964


 


7,898


 


7,762


 


7,157


 


7,346


 


7,789


 


– 5.7%


Large Truck Crash Deaths


 


101


 


116


 


95


 


112


 


112


 


127


 


102


 


111


 


94


 


84


 


95


 


104


 


– 8.3%


Large Truck Crash Injuries


 


3,456


 


3,524


 


3,469


 


3,787


 


3,271


 


3,101


 


2,810


 


3,042


 


2,877


 


2,642


 


2,540


 


2,894


 


– 12.2%


Large Truck Crash *A-injuries


 


517


 


489


 


500


 


485


 


426


 


418


 


360


 


379


 


339


 


305


 


338


 


360


 


– 6.2%


 


  *A-injuries = incapacitating. These injuries are a subset of total injuries.


     Note: 2007 data are not yet final