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Table 2-2: Injured Persons by Transportation Mode

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	1960	1965	1970	1975	1980	1980	1985	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
TOTAL injured persons	U	U	U	U	U	U	U	U	U	3,127,000	3,202,000	3,325,000	3,518,000	3,532,000	^R3,398,000	^R3,242,000	3,284,000	U
Air^a
U.S. air carrier^b	N	N	107	81		19	30	29	26	^R22	^R19	31	25	77	^R43	^R30	^R58	27
Commuter carrier^c	N	N	N	N		14	^R14	11	31	7	2	^R6	^R17	2	1	2	2	7
On-demand air taxi^d	N	N	N	N		43	^R44	36	26	19	24	32	14	^R22	23	10	14	12
General aviation^e	N	N	715	769	^R681	^R681	^R501	^R409	^R432	^R408	^R385	^R415	^R396	^R365	^R350	^R327	^R322	310
Highway
Passenger car occupants	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	2,376,000	2,235,000	2,232,000	2,265,000	2,364,000	2,469,000	2,458,000	2,341,000	2,201,000	2,138,000	2,052,000
Motorcyclists	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	84,000	80,000	65,000	59,000	57,000	57,000	55,000	53,000	49,000	50,000	58,000
Truck occupants^f
Light	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	505,000	563,000	545,000	601,000	631,000	722,000	761,000	755,000	763,000	847,000	887,000
Large	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	42,000	28,000	34,000	32,000	30,000	30,000	33,000	31,000	29,000	33,000	31,000
Bus occupants	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	33,000	21,000	20,000	17,000	16,000	19,000	20,000	17,000	16,000	22,000	18,000
Pedestrians	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	105,000	88,000	89,000	94,000	92,000	86,000	82,000	77,000	69,000	85,000	78,000
Pedalcyclists	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	75,000	67,000	63,000	68,000	62,000	67,000	58,000	58,000	53,000	51,000	51,000
Other^g	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	11,000	15,000	22,000	13,000	13,000	14,000	15,000	17,000	12,000	^R11,000	15,000
Total highway	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	3,231,000	3,097,000	3,070,000	3,149,000	3,266,000	3,465,000	3,483,000	3,348,000	3,192,000	3,236,000	3,189,000
Railroad^h
Highway-rail grade crossing	3,367	3,725	3,272	3,860		3,550	2,687	2,407	2,094	1,975	1,837	1,961	1,894	1,610	1,540	1,303	1,396	1,219
Railroad	16,113	21,930	17,934	50,138		58,696	31,617	22,736	21,374	19,408	17,284	14,851	12,546	10,948	10,227	10,156	^R10,304	10,424
Transitⁱ	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	54,556	52,125	55,089	^R52,668	58,193	57,196	55,288	56,132	55,990	55,325	U
Waterborne^j
Vessel-related^k	N	N	105	97		180	172	175	110	^R162	^R166	^R174	145	^R223	^R121	^R135	^R131	125
Not related to vessel casualties^k	N	N	U	U		U	U	U	U	^R1,489	^R1,448	^R1,718	^R1,833	^R1,327	^R1,037	^R540	^R500	564
Recreational boating	929	927	780	2,136		2,650	2,757	3,822	3,967	3,683	3,559	4,084	4,141	4,442	4,555	4,612	4,315	4,355
Pipeline
Hazardous liquid pipeline	N	N	21	17		15	18	7	9	38	10	1,858	11	13	5	6	20	4
Gas pipeline	N	N	233	214		177	108	69	89	80	101	113	53	114	72	^R76	^R93	77

KEY: N = data do not exist; R = revised; U = data are not available.

^a Injuries classified as serious. See definitions of injuries in the glossary.

^b All scheduled and nonscheduled service operating under 14 CFR 121. Since March 20, 1997, 14 CFR 121 includes only aircraft with 10 or more seats formerly operated under 14 CFR 135. This change makes it difficult to compare pre-1997 data for 14 CFR 121 and 14 CFR 135 with more recent years' data.

^c All scheduled service operating under 14 CFR 135 (commuter air carriers). Before March 20, 1997, 14 CFR 135 applied to aircraft with 30 or fewer seats. Since March 20, 1997, 14 CFR 135 includes only aircraft with fewer than 10 seats. This change makes it difficult to compare pre-1997 data for 14 CFR 121 and 14 CFR 135 with more recent years' data.

^d Nonscheduled service operating under 14 CFR 135 (on-demand air taxis).

^e All operations other than those operating under 14 CFR 121 and 14 CFR 135.

^f Large trucks are defined as trucks over 10,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating, including single-unit trucks and truck tractors. Light trucks are defined as trucks of 10,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating or less, including pickups, vans, truck-based stationwagons, and utility vehicles.

^g Includes occupants of other unknown vehicle types and other nonmotorists.

^h Includes Amtrak. Figures include those injuries resulting from train accidents, train incidents, and nontrain incidents. Injury figures also include occupational illness. Railroad injuries data for 1970 and before are not comparable with post 1970 data due to change in reporting system. Highway-rail grade crossing injuries are counted under highway, except train occupants.

ⁱ Includes motor bus, commuter rail, heavy rail, light rail, demand responsive, van pool, and automated guideway. Transit injuries include those resulting from all reportable incidents, not just from accidents.

^j Vessel-related injuries include those involving damage to vessels, such as collisions or groundings. Injuries not related to vessel casualties include those from falls overboard or from accidents involving onboard equipment.

^k 1992-2000 data come from the Marine Safety Management Information System. Data for prior years may not be directly comparable.

NOTES:

The motor vehicle injury data in this table come from the U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's 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 did not result in property damage. The 1993 National Transportation Statistics (NTS) Historical Compendium and earlier editions used injury figures estimated by the National Safety Council, which used a different set of methods to arrive at its figures. Thus, the injury figures in this edition of NTS may not be comparable with those found in the Compendium and earlier editions.

Numbers may not add to totals because some injuries are counted in more than one mode. To avoid double counting, the following adjustments have been made in the total injured row.

• most (not all) highway-rail grade crossing injuries have not been added because most (not all) such injuries involve motor vehicles and are already included in highway injuries;

• for transit, all commuter rail injuries and motor-bus, trolley-bus, demand-responsive, and van-pool injuries arising from accidents have been subtracted because they are counted as railroad, highway, or highway-rail grade crossing injuries.

The reader cannot reproduce the total injuries count in this table by simply leaving out the number of highway-rail grade crossing injuries in the sum and subtracting the above transit submodes, because in so doing, grade-crossing injuries not involving motor vehicles would be left out (see table 2-35 on rail). An example of such an injury is a bicyclist injured by a train at a grade crossing.

SOURCES:

Air:

U.S. air carrier:

1970-94: National Transportation Safety Board, Annual Review of Aircraft Accident Data: U.S. Air Carrier Operations (Washington, DC: Annual issues).

1995-2000: Ibid., Analysis and Data Division, personal communications, Aug. 8, 1996, Mar. 10, 1999, March 23, 2000, and May 7, 2002.

Commuter carrier, and on-demand air taxi:

1980-94: National Transportation Safety Board, Annual Review of Aircraft Accident Data: U.S. Air Carrier Operations (Washington, DC: Annual issues).

1995-2000: Ibid., Analysis and Data Division, personal communications, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, and May 7, 2002.

General aviation:

1970-94: National Transportation Safety Board, Annual Review of Aircraft Accident Data: General Aviation (Washington, DC: Annual issues).

1995-2000: Ibid., Analysis and Data Division, personal communications, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, and May 7, 2002.

Highway:

1990-99: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, National Center for Statistics and Analysis, Traffic Safety Facts 1999, DOT HS 809 100 (Washington, DC: December 2000), table 4.

2000: Ibid., General Estimates System Database and personal communication, Nov. 28, 2001.

Rail:

Highway-rail grade crossings:

1960-70: National Safety Council, Accident Facts, 1974 (Washington, DC: 1974).

1975: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration, Office of Policy and Program Development, personal communication.

1980-91: Ibid., Rail-Highway Crossing Accident/Incident and Inventory Bulletin (Washington, DC: Annual issues), table S.

1992-2000: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration, Railroad Safety Statistics Annual Report 2000 (Washington, DC: July 2001), tables 1-1 and 8-13.

Railroad:

1960-70: National Safety Council, Accident Facts, 1974 (Washington, DC: 1974).

1970-91: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration, Highway-Rail Crossing Accident/Incident and Inventory Bulletin (Washington, DC: Annual issues), table 7.

1992-2000: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration, Railroad Safety Statistics Annual Report 2000 (Washington, DC: July 2001), tables 1-1 and 8-13.

Transit:

1990-99: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration, Safety Management Information Statistics (Washington, DC: Annual issues).

Water:

Waterborne transportation:

1970-91: U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S. Coast Guard, Office of Investigations and Analysis, Compliance Analysis Division, (G-MOA-2), personal communication, Apr. 13, 1999.

1992-2000: Ibid., Data Administration Division (G-MRI-1), personal communication, Dec. 12, 2001.

Recreational boating:

1960-2000: Ibid., Office of Boating Safety, Boating Statistics (Washington, DC: Annual issues).

Hazardous liquid and gas pipeline:

1970-2000: U.S. Department of Transportation, Research and Special Programs Administration, Office of Pipeline Safety, personal communication and Internet site http://ops.dot.gov as of July 24, 2001.