BTS | Table 2-22: Motorcycle Rider Safety Data

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Table 2-22: Motorcycle Rider Safety Data

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	1975	1980	1985	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Fatalities	3,189	5,144	4,564	3,244	2,806	2,395	2,449	2,320	2,227	2,161	2,116	2,294	^R2,483	2,862
Injured persons	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
Crashes	N	N	N	103,000	^R105,000	72,000	^R75,000	^R69,000	^R66,000	66,000	61,000	^R54,000	57,000	69,000
Vehicle-miles (billions)	5.6	10.2	9.1	9.6	9.2	9.6	9.9	10.2	9.8	9.9	10.1	10.3	10.6	10.5
Rates per 100 million vehicle-miles^a
Fatalities	57	50	50	34	31	25	25	23	23	22	21	22	^R24	27
Injured persons^R	N	N	N	879	872	680	596	557	582	554	526	477	472	551
Crashes	N	N	N	1,078	^R1,144	753	^R757	^R674	^R674	^R665	^R605	^R525	^R539	658

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

^a U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) rounds its injury and crash data to the nearest thousand before publishing them, but it calculates injury rates using the unrounded data. NHTSA also calculates fatality and injury rates using vehicle-miles expressed to a higher level of precision than shown here. USDOT, Bureau of Transportation Statistics rounded vehicle-miles to the nearest 100 million in this table.

NOTE: The injury and crash data in this table are from NHTSA's General Estimates System (GES). The data from the 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. The 1993 National Transportation Statistics (NTS) Compendium and earlier editions illustrated crashes and injury figures estimated by the National Safety Council, which used a different set of methods to arrive at its figures. Thus, the injury and crash figures in this edition of NTS may not be comparable with those found in the Compendium and earlier editions.

SOURCES:

Fatalities, injuries, and vehicle-miles:

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 10, and personal communication, Nov. 28, 2001.

Crashes:

U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, National Center for Statistics and Analysis, Fatality Analysis Reporting System Database and General Estimates System Database, personal communication, Dec. 18, 2001.