Figure 5 represents a summary of truck crashes and their locations along the US 27 study corridor. Out of 2,782 total crashes, there were 342 truck related crashes, of which, 15 resulted in a fatality and 22 resulted in a serious injury. There were six crashes that involved vulnerable road users and trucks. These crashes resulted in three fatalities.

The total number of crashes, the fatal crashes per segment and the crash rates per million vehicle miles traveled (MVMT) over the five-year period are shown in Table 1. The segment crashes are on-street crashes along US 27 which also contain a portion of the intersection crashes that occurred along US 27. The five-year average segment crash rates are lower than the statewide and district-wide averages along US 27, with the exception of two segments: one along the southern portion north of CR 731 to south of Sun N Lakes Blvd, the other being the northernmost segment from South of the Highlands/Polk County line to the northern study limit.

FDOT's CAR System provides unit costs for the financial cost or losses as a result of crashes and injuries. Based on these unit costs, crashes along US 27 have an estimated cost of $903 million as shown Table 2.

Crash frequency is the densest in the urbanized areas of Sebring and Avon Park, as shown in the crash heat map in Figure 7. The location of intersection crashes, pedestrian/bicycle crashes and contributing causes are detailed in Appendix A.

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