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Transportation in Canada 2003

TABLE A4-9A: COMMERCIAL AND OTHER VEHICLES INVOLVED IN FATAL COLLISIONS BY VEHICLE TYPE, 1997 - 2001
Vehicle Type	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	1997- 2001 Avg.
Commercial
All buses	32	43	34	36	32	35
Straight trucks ≥ 4,536 kg	179	167	170	147	153	163
Tractor-trailers	335	289	360	364	322	334
Total commercial vehicles	546	499	564	547	507	533
Non-commercial vehicles involved with NSC vehicles	486	459	559	488	444	487
Total vehs. involved in collisions involving commercial vehicles	1,032	958	1,123	1,035	951	1,020
Total all other vehicles involved	3,245	3,246	3,278	3,142	2,995	3,181
Total - All Vehicles Involved	4,277	4,204	4,401	4,177	3,946	4,201

Source: Transport Canada, Road Safety and Motor Vehicle Regulation Traffic Accident Information Database

TABLE A4-9B: FATALITIES ¹ RESULTING FROM COMMERCIAL AND OTHER VEHICLES INVOLVED IN FATAL COLLISIONS BY VEHICLE TYPE, 1997 - 2001
Vehicle Type	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	1997- 2001 Avg.
All buses	46	4	3	10	5	14
Straight trucks ≥ 4,536 kg	18	28	25	30	17	24
Tractor-trailers	47	40	44	52	50	47
Commercial vehicle occupant total	111	72	72	92	72	84
Occupants of other vehicles inv. with commercial vehicles	480	413	447	431	415	437
Bicyclists	12	17	5	11	11	11
Pedestrians	61	59	65	48	50	57
Total victims of collisions involving commercial vehicles	664	561	589	582	548	589
Victims of all other collisions	2,400	2,388	2,396	2,344	2,230	2,352
Total	3,064	2,949	2,985	2,926	2,778	2,940

"Fatalities" include all those who died as a result of involvement in a reportable traffic collision within 30 days of its occurrence, except in Quebec (8 days).

Note: Data for Nunavut are not reported for 2001, except fatalities.

Source: Transport Canada, Road Safety and Motor Vehicle Regulation Traffic Accident Information Database