WASHINGTON, D.C. – A single truck crash in the U.S. costs nearly $100,000. The bill for longer tractor-trailer accidents, however, costs significantly more, according to a new study commissioned by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), Today’s Trucking reports. The study provides the latest estimates of unit costs by severity for highway crashes involving medium-duty and heavy trucks. The estimated cost of police-reported crashes involving trucks with a gross weight rating of more than 10,000 lbs averaged $91,112.

These costs represent the present value, computed at a 4-percent discount rate of all costs over victims’ expected life spans resulting from a crash. They include medical, emergency services, and property damage costs, lost productivity, and the monetized value of the pain and “quality of life” that the family loses because of a death or injury.

Crashes involving long combination vehicles (trucks with two or three trailers) were the rarest, but their cost was the highest among all crashes — $289,549 per crash. Straight truck crashes with no trailers had the lowest cost — $56,296 per crash. The average cost of property damage only crashes was $15,114, while the costs per non-fatal injury crash averaged $195,258, according to Today’s Trucking.

The FMCSA study reports that safety analysts use crash cost data for a variety of purposes, from analyzing the effectiveness of a particular roadway enhancement to measuring the impact of seatbelt use.