Workers who drive for a living must deal with bad roads, traffic jams, and long hours. Truckdrivers and taxicab drivers face the possibility of serious injury and death from highway traffic incidents and assaults. Between 1992-95, almost 3,000 truckdrivers, and more than 400 taxicab drivers lost their lives while working. From 1992-95, truckdriving had the most fatalities 1 of all occupations, accounting for 12 percent of all worker deaths. Abut two-thirds of the fatally injured truckers were involved in highway crashes.
Deadly assaults claim the lives of more taxicab drivers than any other fatal events.
In contrast, just one-tenth of the fatally injured drivers were involved in vehicle collisions. These figures suggest that cabdrivers would have relatively safe jobs if deadly violence did not affect their work environments. This rate is four times more than that of police officers. Robbery appeared to be the motive in many cases. 4 a.m. Half of the murdered taxicab drivers had head injuries, most from gunfire.