The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety documented that the towing industry loses approximately one operator every six days in the United States to struck-by-vehicle incidents, with 90 persons employed in motor vehicle towing killed in pedestrian-vehicular incidents between 2015 and 2021, according to the AAA Foundation and Bureau of Labor Statistics data. The fatality rate of 43 per 100,000 workers is 14 times the national average across all industries.
Operator takeaway
One operator killed every six days — print this statistic and post it in your dispatch office so every driver sees it before every shift.