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Targeting Highway Fatalities
FHWA Office of Safety — January 2004
During calendar year 2002, a total of 42,815 deaths occurred on highways in the United States. Reducing this terrible toll is the top priority of the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT), and the FHWA is advancing a set of strategic objectives and strategies in partnership with other USDOT agencies. Nationally, the FHWA is focused on reducing the number and severity of crashes relating to situations which result in the largest number of deaths - namely: roadway departure crashes, intersection crashes, and pedestrian deaths. Similar to this approach at the national level, we strongly encourage States and localities to strategically direct their resources to areas of highest priority in terms of lives lost. The maps included below provide a snapshot of these figures from the year 2002 (sources are the Fatality Analysis Reporting System - see http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/, and travel data from FHWA Policy - see http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/ohim/hs02/vm2.htm.) |
