BTS | Table 2-27: Motor Vehicle Fatal Crashes by Day of Week, Time of Day, and Weather and Light Conditions

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Table 2-27: Motor Vehicle Fatal Crashes by Day of Week, Time of Day, and Weather and Light Conditions

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	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
TOTAL Fatal crashes	39,836	36,937	34,942	35,780	36,254	37,241	37,494	37,324	37,107	37,140	37,409
Day of week
Sunday	16.1	16.2	15.9	15.8	15.9	15.7	15.2	15.8	15.5	^R15.7	16.1
Monday	11.7	11.5	11.6	12.1	12.4	12.4	12.7	12.1	12.4	12.6	12.4
Tuesday	11.5	11.5	11.5	11.8	11.7	11.8	12.4	11.9	12.4	11.9	12.0
Wednesday	11.5	11.9	12.3	12.0	12.3	11.9	12.2	13.0	12.4	12.5	12.2
Thursday	12.5	12.5	13.2	13.0	12.7	13.0	13.3	13.0	13.5	12.9	13.0
Friday	16.6	16.5	16.1	16.3	16.3	16.6	16.1	16.1	15.8	15.9	16.0
Saturday	19.9	19.9	19.3	19.0	18.6	18.5	^R18.2	18.0	18.0	18.5	18.5
Unknown	0.02	0.03	0.01	0.02	0.04	0.03	0.04	0.05	0.04	^R0.01	0.02
Time of day
Midnight to 3 a.m.	15.7	15.3	14.3	13.8	13.1	12.8	12.6	12.2	12.3	12.2	12.5
3 a.m. to 6 a.m.	7.7	7.9	7.4	7.3	7.3	7.5	7.4	7.2	7.3	^R7.6	8.0
6 a.m. to 9 a.m.	8.6	8.6	8.5	8.9	9.3	9.2	9.5	9.9	9.7	10.1	9.9
9 a.m. to noon	8.4	8.6	8.8	9.7	9.6	9.4	9.7	9.9	10.2	^R10.1	9.9
Noon to 3 p.m.	11.5	0.0	12.4	12.5	13.1	12.9	12.7	13.3	13.4	13.2	13.1
3 p.m. to 6 p.m.	15.6	15.7	16.0	16.0	16.6	16.8	16.9	16.6	16.8	16.8	16.7
6 p.m. to 9 p.m.	15.5	15.6	16.5	16.2	15.7	15.9	15.7	15.9	15.6	15.4	15.4
9 p.m. to midnight	15.9	15.8	15.3	14.7	14.3	14.6	14.6	14.1	13.8	13.8	13.7
Unknown	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.8	^R0.9	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.9	^R0.8	0.9
Atmospheric condition
Normal	86.7	86.7	85.6	87.0	87.3	^R86.7	86.3	86.4	87.2	89.0	87.4
Rain	9.3	9.0	10.0	8.7	8.3	^R8.6	8.4	8.8	8.8	7.3	7.0
Snow/sleet	1.6	1.9	2.0	2.2	1.8	2.4	2.7	2.5	1.7	1.6	2.4
Other/unknown	2.3	2.4	2.3	2.1	2.5	^R2.3	2.6	2.3	2.3	^R2.0	3.2
Light condition
Daylight	45.0	45.4	46.0	47.7	49.5	48.7	49.3	50.3	50.5	50.7	50.1
Dark, but lighted	17.7	17.4	17.4	16.4	15.6	^R16.0	15.9	15.6	14.9	^R15.0	15.9
Dark	32.7	33.0	32.4	31.5	30.3	^R30.7	30.3	29.5	30.0	29.7	29.0
Dawn or dusk	4.2	3.9	3.9	4.2	4.2	4.2	4.2	4.2	4.3	4.3	4.0
Unknown	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.2	^R0.3	0.4	0.3	^R0.4	0.3	0.3	1.0

KEY: R = revised.

SOURCES:

1990-1993: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Traffic Safety Facts (Washington, DC: Annual issues), tables 24 and 25.

1994-2000: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) query at http://www.fars.nhtsa.dot.gov as of Oct. 4, 2001.