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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Collector	2,226	1,696	1,427	1,441	1,290	1,399	1,037	1,031	987	1,007	1,136	1,197
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

^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.

1998-2003: Ibid., Highway Statistics (Washington, DC: Annual issues), table FI-20, Internet site http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/ohpi/index.htm as of Dec. 13, 2004.

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.

1996-2003: Ibid., Highway Statistics (Washington, DC: Annual issues), table VM-2, Internet site http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/ohpi/index.htm as of Dec. 13, 2004.

Fatality rates:

Calculated by the U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics.