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Trucking Accidents, in numbers
Truck accident claims, explained with real numbers.
Every figure sourced and dated. Updated 2026-09-01.
Across 400+ settled cases, truck-accident settlements average $103,654 with a median of $30,000: a spread that tells you severity, not luck, drives outcomes.
Why these cases are structurally different
A loaded commercial truck weighs up to 80,000 pounds, and federal law requires carriers to hold $750,000 to $5,000,000 in liability coverage, dwarfing private auto minimums. Fatal large-truck crashes rose 26.4% from 2016 to 2022 per FMCSA data, and multiple parties, from the driver to the carrier to the loader, can share liability.
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Sources for every figure on this page
$103,654: Brown & Crouppen: average of 400+ truck-accident settlements, 2021-2024 (published estimate, retrieved 2026-09-01).
$30,000: Brown & Crouppen: median of the same settlement set (published estimate, retrieved 2026-09-01).
$750,000 to $5,000,000: FMCSA federal minimum liability coverage for commercial carriers (published estimate, retrieved 2026-09-01).
80,000 pounds: FMCSA: maximum loaded weight of a commercial truck, roughly 20x a passenger car (published estimate, retrieved 2026-09-01).
26.4%: FMCSA: increase in fatal large-truck and bus crashes, 2016-2022 (published estimate, retrieved 2026-09-01).
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