Table 2-16: Recreational Boating Accidents: 2000,,,,,,
,Alaska,United States,,,,
Number of accidents,,,,,,
Total,68,"7,740",,,,
Fatal,16,616,,,,
Non-fatal injury,13,"3,292",,,,
Property damage,39,"3,832",,,,
Number of persons,,,,,,
Killed,18,701,,,,
Injured,18,"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 non-fatal injury, followed by property damage.  For example, if two vessels are in an accident resulting in a fatality and a non-fatal 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 www.uscgboating.org/Saf/pdf/Boating_Statistics_2000.pdf as of Nov. 14, 2001.",,,,,,