BTS | Table 2-43: Recreational Boating Safety, Alcohol Involvement, and Property Damage Data

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Table 2-43: Recreational Boating Safety, Alcohol Involvement, and Property Damage Data

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	1960	1965	1970	1975	1980	1985	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Fatalities	739	1,360	1,418	1,466	1,360	1,116	865	924	816	800	784	829	709	821	815	734	^c701
Injuries	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
Accidents	2,738	3,752	3,803	6,308	5,513	6,237	6,411	6,573	6,048	6,335	6,906	8,019	8,026	8,047	8,061	^R7,931	7,740
Vessels involved	^R,d3,562	^R,d4,778	4,762	8,002	6,954	8,305	8,591	8,821	8,206	8,688	9,722	11,534	11,306	11,396	11,368	11,190	10,984
Numbered boats^a (millions)	2.5	6.4	7.4	7.3	8.6	9.6	11.0	11.1	11.1	11.3	11.4	11.7	11.9	12.3	12.6	12.7	12.8
Rates per 100,000 numbered boats
Fatalities	32.8	21.3	19.2	20.1	15.8	11.6	7.8	8.3	7.3	7.1	6.9	7.1	^R5.9	6.7	6.5	5.8	5.5
Injuries	37.1	14.5	10.5	29.3	30.8	28.7	34.7	35.7	33.2	31.5	35.8	35.4	37.3	37.0	36.6	33.9	34.0
Accidents	109.5	58.6	51.4	86.4	64.1	65.0	58.3	59.8	54.5	56.1	60.6	68.5	67.4	65.4	64.1	62.3	60.5
Accident reports citing alcohol involvement	N	N	N	N	N	279	568	513	504	381	389	472	601	698	704	633	696
Property damage (current $ millions)	3.2	4.7	8.2	10.4	16.4	20.0	23.8	24.8	^b34.8	20.2	^R,d25.9	^R,d21.5	23.2	29.0	31.0	28.9	34.7

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

^a Prior to 1975, the count of numbered boats is an estimate.

^b Includes $11 million damage due to a boat fire.

^c The numbers for recreational boating safety fatalities are raw numbers - CG reports a 6% addition as instructed by the DOT IG because they found a discrepancy in a review of SARMIS and BARD data. (See the discussion found in the DOT FY2003 Performance Plan/Report on pg. 135 under data details of recreational boating fatalities).

^d U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S. Coast Guard, Office of Boating Safety, personal communication, May 15, 2002.

NOTE: Only a small fraction of property damages and nonfatal accidents are reported to the U.S. Coast Guard.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S. Coast Guard, Office of Boating Safety, Boating Statistics (Washington, DC: Annual issues).