BTS | Table 2-24: Bus Occupant Safety Data (a)

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Table 2-24: Bus Occupant Safety Data^a

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	1975	1980	1985	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Fatalities	53	46	57	32	31	28	18	18	33	21	18	38	59	22	34	45	41	(R) 42	58
Injured persons^E	N	N	N	32,691	20,959	20,144	17,056	15,767	19,214	20,291	16,887	15,559	21,958	17,769	15,427	18,819	18,174	16,410	11,000
Crashes^E	N	N	N	60,412	56,285	49,705	51,353	55,818	58,847	57,185	53,376	53,385	62,591	55,594	54,264	57,958	57,674	52,144	51,000
Vehicle-miles (millions)	6,055	6,059	4,478	5,726	5,750	5,778	6,125	6,409	6,420	6,563	6,842	7,007	7,662	7,590	7,077	6,845	6,783	(R) 6,801	6,646
Rates per 100 million vehicle-miles
Fatalities	0.9	0.8	1.3	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.3	0.3	0.5	0.3	0.3	0.5	0.8	0.3	0.5	0.7	0.6	(R) 0.6	0.9
Injured persons^E	N	N	N	571	365	349	278	246	299	309	247	222	287	234	218	275	268	(R) 241	166
Crashes^E	N	N	N	1,055	979	860	838	871	917	871	780	762	817	732	767	847	850	(R) 767	767

KEY: E = estimates; N = data do not exist; R = revised.

^a Bus includes school, transit, and intercity buses.

NOTE

The injury and crash data in this table are from the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) General Estimates System (GES). The data from GES, which began operation in 1988, are obtained from a nationally representative probability sample selected from all police-reported crashes. The GES sample includes only crashes where a police accident report was completed and the crash resulted in property damage, injury, or death. The resulting figures do not take into account crashes that were not reported to the police or that did not result in property damage.

SOURCES

Fatalities and injuries:

1975-2005: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, National Center for Statistics and Analysis, Traffic Safety Facts 2005, Final Edition, DOT HS 810 631 (Washington, DC), table 4, Internet site http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-30/NCSA/TSFAnn/TSF2005.pdf as of Feb. 2, 2007.

Vehicle-miles:

1975-94: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Highway Statistics Summary to 1995 (Washington, DC: July 1997), table VM-201A.

1995-2005: Ibid., Highway Statistics (Washington, DC: Annual issues), table VM-1.

Crashes:

1990-2004: Ibid., General Estimates System Database, personal communication, May 25, 2006.

2005: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, National Center for Statistics and Analysis, Traffic Safety Facts 2005, Final Edition, DOT HS 810 631 (Washington, DC), table 35, Internet site http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-30/NCSA/TSFAnn/TSF2005.pdf as of June 19, 2007.

Table 2-24: Bus Occupant Safety Dataa

Table 2-24: Bus Occupant Safety Data^a