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Table 2-16: Recreational Boating Accidents: 2000
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Number of accidents |
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Total |
20 |
7,740 |
Fatal |
0 |
616 |
Nonfatal injury |
5 |
3,292 |
Property damage |
15 |
3,832 |
Number of persons |
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Killed |
0 |
701 |
Injured |
6 |
4,355 |
NOTE: Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands are included in the U.S. total.
NOTES FOR DATA ON THIS PAGE: An accident
is listed under one category only, with fatal being the highest priority,
followed by nonfatal injury, followed by property damage. For example, if two vessels are in an
accident resulting in a fatality and a nonfatal injury, the accident is
counted as a fatal accident involving two vessels.
These data do not include: 1) accidents involving only slight
injury not requiring medical treatment beyond first-aid; 2)
accidents involving property damage of $500 or less; 3) accidents not caused
or contributed to by a vessel, its equipment, or its appendages; and 4)
accidents in which the boat was used solely as a platform for other
activities, such as swimming or skin diving. Such cases are not included
because the victims freely left the safety of a boat. However, the data do
include accidents involving people in the water who are struck by their boat
or another boat.
SOURCE FOR DATA ON THIS PAGE: U.S.
Department of Transportation, U.S. Coast Guard, Boating Statistics, 2000, Washington,
DC: 2001, available at
http://www.uscgboating.org/Saf/pdf/Boating_Statistics_2000.pdf as of Nov. 14,
2001.
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