It’s never pleasant to talk about deadly accidents, but of the 36,096 highway fatalities in 2019, nearly 10,000 involved light trucks and vans and nearly 900 involved medium- and heavy-duty trucks, according to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). (NTSB figures weren’t yet available for 2020, but it’s likely they’d be skewed and uncharacteristically low because fewer vehicles were on the road at the height of the pandemic).
In a utopian scenario, or perfect world, the number of fatalities would be zero. And while that goal is unrealistic in the real world, continued enhancements in collision avoidance/mitigation systems should, at least, help push the number of accidents down.