His book truck accidents kill is the most authoritative text to date on the issues surrounding large truck accidents from the latest available statistics and the causes of driver errors to manufacturing and maintenance problems job pressures and questions of liability he provides the tools for anyone who is concerned about road safety. New years eve in a mesa arizona took a tragic and even bizarre turn 10 people were celebrating the holiday in a private residence in the the semi failed to come to a stop and ended up plowing into a single family home near the intersectionsuburban phoenix community at the same time a semi truck was barreling down us 60 approaching crismon road in mesa for reasons yet to be . The agency said 4678 people died in collisions with large trucks last year thats up by almost 1 percent from the 4369 that died in 2017 fatalities involving large trucks increased for the. Tow truck accident kills small girl in an unusual pedestrian accident a girl apparently jumped onto a tow trucks ramp as it was unloading a vehicle she was the 48th pedestrian fatality in san jose in 2020 the incident occurred in the rancho area of san jose on the monterrey freeway. Commercial truck accident statistics show 97 of all deaths in crashes involving one or more large trucks were from the passenger vehicle car van or suv the statistics show rather steady numbers when it comes to casualties of truck involved accidents with the greater part 97 having been occupants of the passenger vehicles what is more statistics havent changed much over the