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Table 2-16: Recreational Boating Accidents: 2000
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Number of accidents |
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Total |
98 |
7,740 |
Fatal |
13 |
616 |
Nonfatal injury |
46 |
3,292 |
Property damage |
39 |
3,832 |
Number of persons |
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|
Killed |
15 |
701 |
Injured |
64 |
4,355 |
NOTE: Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands are included in the
U.S. total.
NOTES FOR DATA ON THIS PAGE: An accident is listed under one category
only, with fatal being the highest priority, followed by nonfatal injury, followed
by property damage. For example, if two vessels are in an accident resulting in
a fatality and a nonfatal injury, the accident is counted as a fatal accident
involving two vessels.
These data do not include: 1) accidents involving only slight injury not requiring
medical treatment beyond first-aid; 2) accidents involving property damage of
$500 or less; 3) accidents not caused or contributed to by a vessel, its equipment,
or its appendages; and 4) accidents in which the boat was used solely as a platform
for other activities, such as swimming or skin diving. Such cases are not included
because the victims freely left the safety of a boat. However, the data do include
accidents involving people in the water who are struck by their boat or another
boat.
SOURCE FOR DATA ON THIS PAGE: U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S.
Coast Guard, Boating Statistics, 2000, Washington, DC: 2001, available
at http://www.uscgboating.org/Saf/pdf/Boating_Statistics_2000.pdf
as of Nov. 14, 2001.
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