BTS | Table 2-19. Occupant Fatalities by Vehicle Type and Nonoccupant Fatalities

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Table 2-19. Occupant Fatalities by Vehicle Type and Nonoccupant Fatalities

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	1975	1980	1985	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998^R	1999
Occupant fatalities by vehicle type
Passenger car
Subcompact^a	3,834	7,299	7,993	8,309	7,694	7,028	6,968	7,060	6,791	6,618	6,220	5,514	4,930
Compact	614	927	2,635	5,310	5,338	5,354	5,707	6,322	6,899	7,288	7,195	6,804	6,967
Intermediate	1,869	3,878	4,391	4,849	4,681	4,418	4,483	4,407	4,666	4,670	4,794	4,617	4,743
Full^b	10,800	11,580	6,586	4,635	4,040	3,796	3,675	3,560	3,413	3,417	3,481	3,106	2,908
Unknown	8,812	3,765	1,607	989	632	791	733	648	654	512	509	1,153	1,270
Total	25,929	27,449	23,212	24,092	22,385	21,387	21,566	21,997	22,423	22,505	22,199	21,194	20,818
Truck^c
Light	4,856	7,486	6,689	8,601	8,391	8,098	8,511	8,904	9,568	9,932	10,249	10,705	11,243
Total	5,817	8,748	7,666	9,306	9,052	8,683	9,116	9,574	10,216	10,553	10,972	10,705	12,001
Large	961	1,262	977	705	661	585	605	670	648	621	723	742	758
Other vehicles
Motorcycle	3,189	5,144	4,564	3,244	2,806	2,395	2,449	2,320	2,227	2,161	2,116	2,294	2,472
Bus	53	46	57	32	31	28	18	18	33	21	18	38	58
Other/unknown vehicle type	937	540	544	460	466	387	425	409	392	455	420	409	457
Total	4,179	5,730	5,165	3,736	3,303	2,810	2,892	2,747	2,652	2,637	2,554	2,741	2,987
TOTAL vehicle occupant fatalities	35,925	34,441	29,354	37,134	34,740	32,880	33,574	34,318	35,291	25,763	34,725	35,382	35,806
Nonoccupant fatalities
Pedestrian	7,516	8,070	6,808	6,482	5,801	5,549	5,649	5,489	5,584	5,449	5,321	5,228	4,906
Pedalcyclist	1,003	965	890	859	843	723	816	802	833	765	814	760	750
Other	81	129	84	124	124	98	111	107	109	154	153	131	149
Total nonoccupant fatalities	8,600	9,164	7,782	7,465	6,768	6,370	6,576	6,398	6,526	6,368	6,288	6,119	5,805
TOTAL traffic fatalities	44,525	51,091	43,825	44,599	41,508	39,250	40,150	40,716	41,817	^d42,065	42,013	41,501	41,611

^a Includes minicompact cars (wheelbase under 95 inches) and subcompact cars (wheelbase between 95 and 99 inches).
^b Includes cars with a wheelbase of 110 inches or greater.
^c See table 2-23 for definitions of light and large trucks.
^d Includes 2 fatalities that could not be assigned to a category above.

KEY: R = revised.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Traffic Safety Facts 1998,
DOT HS 808 983 (Washington, DC: October 1999), table 4, and personal communication, Sept.11, 2000.
Breakout of passenger car types:
Ibid., National Center for Statistics and Analysis, Fatality Analysis Reporting System Database, 1998.