BTS | Table 2-24: Bus Occupant Safety Data (a)

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Table 2-24: Bus Occupant Safety Data^a

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	1975	1980	1985	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Fatalities	53	46	57	32	31	28	18	18	33	21	18	38	^R59	22
Injured persons	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
Crashes	N	N	N	60,000	56,000	^R50,000	51,000	56,000	^R59,000	57,000	^R53,000	53,000	63,000	56,000
Vehicle-miles (billions)	6.1	6.1	4.5	5.7	5.8	5.8	6.1	6.4	6.4	^R6.6	6.8	7.0	^R7.7	7.6
Rates per 100 million vehicle-miles^b
Fatalities	0.9	0.8	1.3	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.3	0.3	0.5	0.3	0.3	0.5	0.8	0.3
Injured persons	N	N	N	576	365	346	278	250	^R296	305	^R248	^R228	^R287	237
Crashes	N	N	N	1,048	974	^R865	833	874	^R919	869	^R775	^R756	^R822	737

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

^a Bus includes school, transit, and intercity buses.

^b The U.S. Department of Transportation(USDOT), National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) rounds its injury and crash data to the nearest thousand, but injury and crash rates are calculated using the unrounded data. NHTSA also calculates fatality, injury, and crash rates using vehicle-miles expressed to a higher level of precision than shown here. Thus, injury and crash rates shown in this table may differ slightly from the rates that would be calculated from the data in this table. USDOT, Bureau of Transportation Statistics has rounded vehicle-miles to the nearest 100 million in this table.

NOTE:

The injury and crash data in this table are from the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) 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 that did not result in property damage. The 1993 National Transportation Statistics (NTS) Historical 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 in earlier editions.

SOURCES:

Fatalities and injuries:

1975-2000: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Traffic Safety Facts 1999 DOT HS 808 983 (Washington, DC: December 2000), tables 4 and 51, and personal communication, Nov. 28, 2001.

Crashes:

1990-2000: Ibid., General Estimates System Database, personal communication, Dec. 18, 2001.

Vehicle-miles:

1975-94: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Highway Statistics Summary to 1995 (Washington, DC: July 1997), table VM-201A.

1995-2000: Ibid., Highway Statistics (Washington, DC: Annual issues), table VM-1.

Table 2-24: Bus Occupant Safety Dataa

Table 2-24: Bus Occupant Safety Data^a