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Table 2-1: Transportation Fatalities by Mode
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TOTAL
fatalities |
U |
U |
U |
U |
U |
U |
47,350 |
44,321 |
42,058 |
42,827 |
43,587 |
44,568 |
44,848 |
44,474 |
43,910 |
44,084 |
44,384 |
44,941 |
45,299 |
45,126 |
(R)
44,997 |
(R)
45,571 |
(P)
44,912 |
Air,
total |
1,286 |
1,290 |
1,456 |
1,473 |
1,382 |
1,595 |
866 |
1,005 |
989 |
811 |
1,057 |
964 |
1,093 |
724 |
671 |
681 |
764 |
1,166 |
616 |
698 |
636 |
603 |
766 |
U.S.
air carriera |
499 |
261 |
146 |
124 |
1 |
526 |
39 |
(n) 50 |
33 |
1 |
239 |
168 |
380 |
8 |
1 |
12 |
92 |
531 |
0 |
22 |
14 |
22 |
50 |
Commuter
carrierb |
N |
N |
N |
28 |
37 |
37 |
6 |
(n) 77 |
21 |
24 |
25 |
9 |
14 |
46 |
0 |
12 |
5 |
13 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
On-demand
air taxic |
N |
N |
N |
69 |
105 |
76 |
51 |
78 |
68 |
42 |
63 |
52 |
63 |
39 |
45 |
38 |
71 |
60 |
35 |
42 |
64 |
18 |
16 |
General
aviationd |
787 |
1,029 |
1,310 |
1,252 |
1,239 |
956 |
770 |
800 |
867 |
744 |
730 |
735 |
636 |
631 |
625 |
619 |
596 |
562 |
581 |
632 |
558 |
(R) 563 |
698 |
Highway,
total |
36,399 |
47,089 |
52,627 |
44,525 |
51,091 |
43,825 |
44,599 |
41,508 |
39,250 |
40,150 |
40,716 |
41,817 |
(o) 42065 |
42,013 |
41,501 |
41,717 |
41,945 |
42,196 |
43,005 |
42,884 |
42,836 |
(R)
43,510 |
(R)
42,642 |
Passenger
car occupants |
N |
N |
N |
25,929 |
27,449 |
23,212 |
24,092 |
22,385 |
21,387 |
21,566 |
21,997 |
22,423 |
22,505 |
22,199 |
21,194 |
20,862 |
20,699 |
20,320 |
20,569 |
19,725 |
19,192 |
(R)
18,512 |
(R)
17,800 |
Motorcyclists |
790 |
1,650 |
2,280 |
3,189 |
5,144 |
4,564 |
3,244 |
2,806 |
2,395 |
2,449 |
2,320 |
2,227 |
2,161 |
2,116 |
2,294 |
2,483 |
2,897 |
3,197 |
3,270 |
3,714 |
4,028 |
(R)
4,576 |
(R)
4,810 |
Truck
occupantse, light |
N |
N |
N |
4,856 |
7,486 |
6,689 |
8,601 |
8,391 |
8,098 |
8,511 |
8,904 |
9,568 |
9,932 |
10,249 |
10,705 |
11,265 |
11,526 |
11,723 |
12,274 |
12,546 |
12,674 |
(R)
13,037 |
(R)
12,721 |
Truck
occupantse, large |
N |
N |
N |
961 |
1,262 |
977 |
705 |
661 |
585 |
605 |
670 |
648 |
621 |
723 |
742 |
759 |
754 |
708 |
689 |
726 |
766 |
(R) 804 |
(R) 805 |
Bus
occupants |
N |
N |
N |
53 |
46 |
57 |
32 |
31 |
28 |
18 |
18 |
33 |
21 |
18 |
38 |
59 |
22 |
34 |
45 |
41 |
42 |
58 |
27 |
Pedestrians |
7,210 |
7,990 |
8,950 |
7,516 |
8,070 |
6,808 |
6,482 |
5,801 |
5,549 |
5,649 |
5,489 |
5,584 |
5,449 |
5,321 |
5,228 |
4,939 |
4,763 |
4,901 |
4,851 |
4,774 |
4,675 |
(R)
4,892 |
(R)
4,784 |
Pedalcyclists |
490 |
690 |
760 |
1,003 |
965 |
890 |
859 |
843 |
723 |
816 |
802 |
833 |
765 |
814 |
760 |
754 |
693 |
732 |
665 |
629 |
727 |
(R) 786 |
(R) 773 |
Otherf |
27,909 |
36,759 |
40,637 |
1,018 |
669 |
628 |
584 |
590 |
485 |
536 |
516 |
501 |
609 |
573 |
540 |
596 |
591 |
581 |
642 |
729 |
732 |
(R) 845 |
(R) 922 |
Railroad,
totalg |
2,345 |
2,533 |
2,225 |
1,492 |
1,417 |
1,036 |
1,297 |
1,194 |
1,170 |
1,279 |
1,226 |
1,146 |
1,039 |
1,063 |
1,008 |
932 |
937 |
971 |
951 |
868 |
(R) 895 |
(R) 887 |
(R) 911 |
Highway-rail
grade crossingh |
1,421 |
1,610 |
1,440 |
917 |
833 |
582 |
698 |
608 |
579 |
626 |
615 |
579 |
488 |
461 |
431 |
402 |
425 |
421 |
357 |
334 |
(R) 372 |
(R) 358 |
(R) 368 |
Railroad |
924 |
923 |
785 |
575 |
584 |
454 |
599 |
586 |
591 |
653 |
611 |
567 |
551 |
602 |
577 |
530 |
512 |
550 |
594 |
534 |
(R) 523 |
(R) 529 |
(R) 543 |
Transit,
totali |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
339 |
300 |
273 |
281 |
320 |
274 |
264 |
275 |
286 |
299 |
295 |
267 |
280 |
234 |
248 |
236 |
213 |
Highway-rail
grade crossingj |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
17 |
7 |
12 |
26 |
21 |
20 |
13 |
24 |
21 |
29 |
23 |
21 |
Transit |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
257 |
257 |
263 |
260 |
278 |
275 |
254 |
256 |
213 |
219 |
213 |
192 |
Waterborne,
totalk |
N |
N |
2,016 |
2,039 |
1,847 |
1,377 |
1,051 |
1,010 |
1,032 |
1,026 |
992 |
1,016 |
906 |
989 |
1,033 |
928 |
888 |
828 |
(R) 857 |
(R) 807 |
(R) 759 |
777 |
797 |
Vessel-relatedl |
N |
N |
178 |
243 |
206 |
131 |
85 |
30 |
97 |
105 |
77 |
53 |
55 |
48 |
69 |
58 |
53 |
53 |
(R) 66 |
(R) 54 |
(R) 48 |
45 |
48 |
Not
related to vessel casualtiesl |
N |
N |
420 |
330 |
281 |
130 |
101 |
56 |
119 |
121 |
131 |
134 |
142 |
120 |
149 |
136 |
134 |
94 |
41 |
50 |
35 |
35 |
39 |
Recreational
boatingm |
739 |
1,360 |
1,418 |
1,466 |
1,360 |
1,116 |
865 |
924 |
816 |
800 |
784 |
829 |
709 |
821 |
815 |
734 |
701 |
681 |
750 |
703 |
676 |
697 |
710 |
Pipeline,
total |
N |
N |
30 |
15 |
19 |
33 |
9 |
14 |
15 |
17 |
22 |
21 |
53 |
10 |
21 |
22 |
38 |
7 |
12 |
12 |
23 |
(R) 16 |
19 |
Hazardous
liquid pipeline |
N |
N |
4 |
7 |
4 |
5 |
3 |
0 |
5 |
0 |
1 |
3 |
5 |
0 |
2 |
4 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
5 |
(R) 2 |
0 |
Gas
pipeline |
N |
N |
26 |
8 |
15 |
28 |
6 |
14 |
10 |
17 |
21 |
18 |
48 |
10 |
19 |
18 |
37 |
7 |
11 |
12 |
18 |
(R) 14 |
19 |
KEY: N = data do not exist; R =
revised; U = data are not available.
a Carriers operating under 14
CFR 121, all scheduled and nonscheduled service. Since Mar. 20, 1997, 14 CFR 121 include
aircraft with 10 or more seats that formerly operated under 14 CFR 135. This
change makes it difficult to compare pre-1997 data for 14 CFR 121 and 14 CFR
135 with more recent data. In 2001, other than the persons aboard the
aircrafts who were killed, fatalities resulting from the September 11
terrorist acts are excluded.
b All scheduled service
operating under 14 CFR 135 (commuter air carriers). Before Mar. 20, 1997, 14
CFR 135 applied to aircraft with 30 or fewer seats. Since Mar. 20, 1997, 14
CFR 135 includes only aircraft with fewer than 10 seats. This change makes it difficult to compare
pre-1997 data for 14 CFR 121 and 14 CFR 135
with more recent data.
c Nonscheduled service
operating under 14 CFR 135 (on-demand air taxis).
d All operations other than
those operating under 14 CFR 121 and 14 CFR 135.
e Large trucks are defined as
trucks over 10,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating, including single-unit
trucks and truck tractors. Light trucks are defined as trucks of 10,000
pounds gross vehicle weight rating or less, including pickups, vans, truck-based
station wagons, and utility vehicles.
f Includes occupants of other
vehicle types and other nonmotorists. For 1960-70, the U.S. Department of
Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration did not break
out fatality data to the same level of detail as in later years, so fatalities
for those years also include occupants of passenger cars, trucks, and
buses.
g Includes Amtrak. Fatalities
include those resulting from train accidents, train incidents, and nontrain
incidents. Railroad fatality data for 1970 and before is not comparable with
post-1970 data due to a change in the reporting system.
h Fatalities occurring at
highway-rail crossings resulting from freight and passenger rail operations
including commuter rail. Highway-rail grade crossing fatalities, except train
occupants, are also counted under highway.
i Fatalities include those
resulting from all reportable incidents, not just from accidents.
j Includes motor bus,
commuter rail, heavy rail, light rail, demand response, van pool, and
automated guideway. Fatalities occurring at highway-rail crossings resulting
from operations of public transit rail modes including commuter rail. Data
for fatalities at light rail grade crossings are: 1995 (7); 1996 (3); 1997
(3); 1998 (10); 1999 (7); 2000 (12); 2001 (1); 2002 (1); 2003 (4); 2004
(9).
k Vessel-related casualties
include those involving damage to vessels such as collisions or groundings.
Fatalities not related to vessel casualties include deaths from falling
overboard or from accidents involving onboard equipment.
l 1992-97 data come from the
Marine Safety Management Information System. Between 1998 and 2001 the U.S.
Coast Guard phased in a new computer system to track safety data, the Marine
Information for Safety and Law Enforcement System. During that period data
come from combining entries in the Marine Safety Management Information
System with entries in the Marine Information for Safety and Law Enforcement
System. Data for 2002 and 2003 come from the Marine Information for Safety
and Law Enforcement System. Data for
prior years come from other sources and may not be directly comparable.
m Data are based on
information provided by the States, the District of Columbia and the five
U.S. Territories to the Coast Guard Boating Accident Report Database (BARD)
system. Research on the level of
underreporting of fatal accidents in the BARD, based on discrepancies between
the BARD and the Coast Guard Search and Rescue Management Information System
(SARMIS), found that approximately 6 percent of recreational boating
fatalities are not captured by the BARD system. Adjusting the number of recreational
boating fatalities included in the BARD in 2001 by 6 percent increases the
total to 722.
n U.S. air carrier figure
does not include 12 persons killed aboard a commuter aircraft when it and a
US Air airliner collided; commuter air carrier figure does not include 22
persons killed aboard a US Air airliner when it and a commuter aircraft
collided.
o Includes 2 fatalities that
have not been assigned to a specific vehicle type.
p Other than the persons
aboard the aircraft who were killed, fatalities resulting from the September
11 terrorist acts are excluded.
NOTES
Numbers
may not add to the total because some fatalities are counted in more than one
mode. Total fatalities is derived from table 2-4 and earlier editions of this
table. To avoid double counting, the following adjustments are made: most
(not all) highway-rail grade-crossing fatalities have not been added because
most (not all) such fatalities involve motor vehicles and, thus, are already
included in highway fatalities; for transit, all commuter rail fatalities and
motor-bus, trolley-bus, demand-responsive, and van-pool fatalities arising
from accidents have been subtracted because they are counted as railroad,
highway, or highway-rail grade-crossing fatalities. The reader cannot reproduce the total
fatalities in this table by simply leaving out the number of highway-rail
grade-crossing fatalitites in the sum and subtracting the above transit
submodes, because in so doing, grade-crossing fatalities not involving motor
vehicles would be left out (see table 2-35 on rail). An example of such a
fatality is a bicyclist hit by a train at a grade crossing.
Caution
must be exercised in comparing fatalities across modes because significantly
different definitions are used. In
particular, rail and transit fatalities include incident-related (as distinct
from accident-related) fatalities, such as fatalities from falls in transit
stations or railroad employee fatalities from a fire in a workshed.
Equivalent fatalities for the air and highway modes (fatalities at airports
not caused by moving aircraft or fatalities from accidents in automobile
repair shops) are not counted toward the totals for these modes. Thus, fatalities not necessarily directly
related to in service transportation are counted for the transit and rail
modes, potentially overstating the risk for these modes.
The
Federal Railroad Administration defines a grade crossing as a location where
a public highway, road, street, or private roadway, including associated
sidewalks and pathways, crosses one or more railroad tracks at grade. The
Federal Transit Adminstration defines two types of grade crossings: (1) At
grade, mixed, and cross traffic crossings, meaning railway right-of-way over
which other traffic moving in the same direction or other cross directions
may pass. This includes city street right-of-way; (2) At grade with cross
traffic crossings, meaning railway right-of-way over which no other traffic
may pass, except to cross at grade-level crossings. This can include median
strip rights-of-way with grade level crossings at intersecting streets.
SOURCES
Air:
1960: National Transportation Safety Board, Annual Review of Aircraft Accident Data: U.S. Air
Carrier Operations, Calendar Year 1967 (Washington, DC: December 1968).
1965-70: Ibid., Annual Review of
Aircraft Accident Data: U.S. Air Carrier Operations, Calendar Year 1975, NTSB/ARC-77/1 (Washington, DC: January 1977).
1975: Ibid., Annual Review of
Aircraft Accident Data: U.S. Air Carrier Operations, Calendar Year 1983, NTSB/ARC-87/01 (Washington, DC: February 1987), table 18.
1980: Ibid., Annual Review of
Aircraft Accident Data: U.S. Air Carrier Operations, Calendar Year 1981, NTSB/ARC-85/01 (Washington, DC: February 1985), tables 2
and 16.
1985-2006:
Ibid., Internet site www.ntsb.gov/aviation, table 5 as of Sept. 5, 2007.
Commuter:
1975-80: National Transportation Safety Board, Annual Review of Aircraft Accident Data: U.S. Air
Carrier Operations, Calendar Year 1980, NTSB/ARC-83/01 (Washington, DC: January 1983), tables 26 and 40.
1985-2006:
Ibid., Internet site www.ntsb.gov/aviation, table 8 as of Sept. 5, 2007.
On-demand air taxi:
1975-80: National Transportation Safety Board, Annual Review of Aircraft Accident Data: U.S. Air Carrier
Operations, Calendar Year 1981, NTSB/ARC-85/01
(Washington, DC: February 1985), table 61.
1985-2006: Ibid., Internet site www.ntsb.gov/aviation, table 9
as of Sept. 5, 2007.
General aviation:
1960-70: National Transportation Safety Board, Annual Review of Aircraft Accident Data: U.S. General
Aviation, Calendar Year 1970, NTSB/ARG-74/1 (Washington, DC: April 1974), table 117.
1975-80: Ibid., Annual Review of
Aircraft Accident Data: General Aviation, Calendar Year 1985, NTSB/ARG-87/03 (Washington, DC: October 1987), table
21.
1985-2006: Ibid., Internet site www.ntsb.gov/aviation, table 10
as of Sept. 5, 2007.
Highway:
1960-65: Estimated by U.S. Department of
Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration from data
supplied by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Center for
Health Statistics, and individual state accident reports (adjusted to 30-day
deaths). Fatalities data prior to 1975 have been adjusted to reflect the
Fatality Analysis Reporting System's definition of a fatal crash as one that
involves a motor vehicle on a trafficway that results in the death of a
vehicle occupant or a nonmotorist within 30 days of the crash.
1970: Ibid., Traffic Safety Facts
2001, DOT HS 809 100 (Washington, DC:
December 2002), table 4, Internet site www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-30/NCSA/TSFAnn/TSF2001.pdf as of August 2003.
1975-2005: Ibid., Traffic Safety
Facts 2005, DOT HS 810 631 (Washington,
DC: 2006), table 4, Internet site http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-30/NCSA/TSFAnn/TSF2006F.pdf as of Jan.
10, 2007.
2006: Ibid., Traffic Safety Facts
2006, Internet site http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/TSF2006FE.PDF as of Feb. 14, 2008.
Rail:
Highway-rail grade crossing:
1960-70: National Safety Council, Accident
Facts, 1974 (Washington, DC: 1974).
1975-80: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad
Administration, Office of Policy and Program Development, personal
communication.
1985-90: Ibid., Rail-Highway Crossing
Accident/Incident and Inventory Bulletin (Washington, DC: Annual issues), table S.
1991-99: Ibid., Railroad Safety
Statistics Annual Report 2002 (Washington,
DC: March 2004), table 1-1.
2000-05: Ibid., Railroad Safety
Statistics, Internet site http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/officeofsafety/ as of Aug. 20, 2007.
Railroad:
1960-65: National Safety Council, Accident
Facts, 1974 (Washington, DC: 1974).
1970-90: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad
Administration, Highway-Rail Crossing
Accident/Incident and Inventory Bulletin (Washington, DC: Annual issues), table 7.
1991-99: Ibid., Railroad Safety
Statistics Annual Report 2002 (Washington,
DC: March 2004), table 1-1.
2000-05: Ibid., Railroad Safety
Statistics, Internet site http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/officeofsafety/ as of Aug. 20, 2007.
Transit:
Highway-rail grade crossing:
U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Transit
Administration, Office of Program Management, personal communication, Aug.
28, 2007.
Transit:
1990-92: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Transit
Administration, Safety Management Information
Statistics 1999 (Washington, DC: 2001), p. 41.
1993-2004: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Transit
Administration, Transit Safety and Security
Statistics and Analysis Annual Report,
(Washington, DC: Annual issues), Internet site http://transit-safety.volpe.dot.gov/data/SAMIS.asp as of Sept. 10, 2007.
Water:
Vessel- and nonvessel-related:
1970-91: U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S. Coast Guard,
Office of Investigations and Analysis, Compliance Analysis Division,
(G-MOA-2), personal communication, Apr. 13, 1999.
1992-2004: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Coast
Guard, Data Administration Division (G-MRI-1), personal communication, June
8, 2005.
Recreational boating:
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Coast Guard, Office
of Boating Safety, Boating Statistics (Washington, DC: Annual issues), Internet site http://www.uscgboating.org as of Sept. 5 2007.
Hazardous liquid and gas pipeline:
1970-85: U.S. Department of Transportation, Research and Special
Programs Administration, Office of Pipeline Safety, Accident
and Incident Summary Statistics by Year, Internet site http://ops.dot.gov as of Nov. 18, 2003.
1990-2005: U.S. Department of Transportation, Research and
Special Programs Administration, Office of Pipeline Safety, Accident and Incident Summary Statistics by Year, Internet site http://ops.dot.gov as of Sept. 10,
2007.
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