BTS | Table 2-18: Motor Vehicle Fatalities, Vehicle-Miles, and Associated Rates by Highway Functional System

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Table 2-18: Motor Vehicle Fatalities, Vehicle-Miles, and Associated Rates by Highway Functional System

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	1980	1985	1990	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Fatalities
Rural, total	29,545	24,492	25,786	23,978	24,510	24,889	24,751	25,185	23,640	23,396	25,693	25,203	24,740	23,549	23,099
Interstate	2,263	2,141	2,707	2,675	2,905	3,033	3,105	3,244	3,199	3,105	3,297	3,241	3,246	3,216	2,870
Other arterials^a	12,268	9,940	9,893	9,947	9,458	9,821	9,594	9,573	8,913	8,692	9,358	9,823	10,061	8,968	8,768
Collector^b	10,004	8,209	8,852	7,401	7,481	7,578	7,593	7,595	7,147	7,305	7,974	7,726	7,353	7,154	7,242
Local	5,010	4,202	4,334	3,955	4,666	4,457	4,459	4,773	4,381	4,294	5,064	4,413	4,080	4,211	4,219
Urban, total	21,546	19,333	18,813	17,839	17,555	17,078	16,143	15,970	15,695	15,219	16,759	16,825	17,161	17,752	18,309
Interstate	2,184	2,025	2,252	2,154	2,323	2,281	2,283	2,353	2,388	2,371	2,452	2,374	2,516	2,658	2,619
Other arterials^a	12,752	12,521	11,742	10,916	10,756	10,243	9,902	9,628	9,442	8,838	9,702	9,827	10,003	10,413	10,672
Collector	2,226	1,696	1,427	1,441	1,290	1,399	1,037	1,031	987	1,007	1,136	1,197	1,339	1,361	1,478
Local	4,384	3,091	3,392	3,328	3,186	3,155	2,921	2,958	2,878	3,003	3,469	3,427	3,303	3,320	3,540
Vehicle-miles of travel (VMT) (millions)
Rural, total	672,030	730,728	868,878	933,289	960,194	999,277	1,032,528	1,062,623	1,084,961	1,105,083	1,128,160	1,085,385	1,070,248	1,037,937	1,037,069
Interstate	135,084	154,357	200,173	223,382	232,565	240,255	251,520	260,166	268,960	274,024	279,962	269,945	266,996	258,790	257,913
Other arterials^a	262,774	282,803	330,866	368,595	378,847	392,057	403,484	413,320	420,569	426,945	433,805	416,596	409,944	398,932	394,499
Collector^b	189,468	206,669	240,460	236,148	241,030	254,100	257,868	264,453	267,521	270,962	275,007	263,662	260,931	251,587	251,375
Local	84,704	86,899	97,379	105,164	107,752	112,865	119,656	124,684	127,911	133,152	139,386	135,182	132,377	128,628	133,282
Urban, total	855,265	1,044,098	1,275,484	1,489,534	1,523,886	1,552,956	1,595,620	1,627,618	1,664,842	1,676,379	1,727,596	1,805,508	1,892,265	1,951,870	1,977,047
Interstate	161,242	216,188	278,901	341,528	351,579	361,433	374,622	383,259	393,580	399,890	408,618	432,633	454,385	469,070	477,283
Other arterials^a	484,189	578,270	699,233	815,170	834,623	846,627	862,996	878,153	900,161	913,726	937,357	973,936	1,020,089	1,048,219	1,060,098
Collector	83,043	89,578	106,297	126,929	129,310	130,146	131,905	131,603	135,371	137,922	141,874	153,751	162,108	168,038	173,210
Local	126,791	160,062	191,053	205,907	208,374	214,750	226,097	234,603	235,730	224,841	239,747	245,188	255,683	266,543	266,456
Fatality rates per 100 million vehicle miles
Rural, total	4.40	3.35	2.97	2.57	2.55	2.49	2.40	2.37	2.18	2.12	2.28	2.32	2.31	2.27	2.23
Interstate	1.68	1.39	1.35	1.20	1.25	1.26	1.23	1.25	1.19	1.13	1.18	1.20	1.22	1.24	1.11
Other arterials^a	4.67	3.51	2.99	2.70	2.50	2.50	2.38	2.32	2.12	2.04	2.16	2.36	2.45	2.25	2.22
Collector^b	5.28	3.97	3.68	3.13	3.10	2.98	2.94	2.87	2.67	2.70	2.90	2.93	2.82	2.84	2.88
Local	5.91	4.84	4.45	3.76	4.33	3.95	3.73	3.83	3.43	3.22	3.63	3.26	3.08	3.27	3.17
Urban, total	2.52	1.85	1.47	1.20	1.15	1.10	1.01	0.98	0.94	0.91	0.97	0.93	0.91	0.91	0.93
Interstate	1.35	0.94	0.81	0.63	0.66	0.63	0.61	0.61	0.61	0.59	0.60	0.55	0.55	0.57	0.55
Other arterials^a	2.63	2.17	1.68	1.34	1.29	1.21	1.15	1.10	1.05	0.97	1.04	1.01	0.98	0.99	1.01
Collector	2.68	1.89	1.34	1.14	1.00	1.07	0.79	0.78	0.73	0.73	0.80	0.78	0.83	0.81	0.85
Local	3.46	1.93	1.78	1.62	1.53	1.47	1.29	1.26	1.22	1.34	1.45	1.40	1.29	1.25	1.33

^a For urban: the sum of other freeways and expressways, other principal arterials, and minor arterials.

For rural: the sum of other principal arterials and minor arterials.

^bCollector is the sum of major and minor collectors (rural only).

NOTES:

Includes the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Fatality figures reflect original figures received by FHWA from NHTSA, and, when totaled, differ slightly from the revised NHTSA figures that appear in other tables in this volume.

SOURCES:

Fatalities:

1980-95: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Highway Statistics Summary to 1995 (Washington, DC: July 1997), table FI-220, Internet site http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/ohimstat.htm as of Oct. 25, 2000.

1996-97: Ibid., Highway Statistics (Washington, DC: Annual issues), table FI-1, Internet site http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/ohimstat.htm as of January 2003.

1998-2005: Ibid., Highway Statistics (Washington, DC: Annual issues), table FI-20, Internet site http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/ohpi/index.htm as of Mar. 11, 2008.

Vehicle miles:

1980-95: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Highway Statistics Summary to 1995 (Washington, DC: July 1997), table VM-202, Internet site http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/ohimstat.htm as of Oct. 25, 2000.

1996-2005: Ibid., Highway Statistics (Washington, DC: Annual issues), table VM-2, Internet site http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/ohpi/index.htm as of Mar. 11, 2008.

Fatality rates:

Calculated by the U.S. Department of Transportation, Research and Innovative Technology Administration, Bureau of Transportation Statistics.