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September 19, 2000 9:40 AM, EDT

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration have embarked on a three-year, $18 million project to produce a database of statistics on the causes of truck crashes across the country.

Julie Anna Cirillo, acting assistant administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, said that unlike NHTSA’s car crash data, FMCSA “we have no substantive data that could point to the causes of truck accidents.”

The database created by NHTSA will help fix this information shortfall for FMCSA. NHTSA’s National Automotive Sampling System will develop the database to capture and analyze truck crash information and categorize potential causes of crashes.

Cirillo said FMCSA wants to be the place to go for answers to questions about the causes of truck crashes: “We are a data-driven organization.”

For the full story, see the Sept. 18 print edition of Transport Topics. .