BTS | Table 2-22: Motorcycle Rider Safety Data

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Table 2-22: Motorcycle Rider Safety Data

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	1975	1980	1985	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Fatalities	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	(R) 4,028	4,553
Injured persons^E	N	N	N	84,285	80,435	65,099	59,436	57,405	57,480	55,281	52,574	48,974	49,986	57,723	60,236	64,713	67,103	76,379	87,000
Crashes^E	N	N	N	103,114	105,030	72,177	74,565	68,752	66,354	66,224	61,451	54,477	57,322	68,783	73,342	76,004	79,131	85,538	103,000
Vehicle-miles (millions)	5,629	10,214	9,086	9,557	9,178	9,557	9,906	10,240	9,797	9,920	10,081	10,283	10,584	10,469	9,639	9,552	9,577	10,122	10,770
Rates per 100 million vehicle-miles^a
Fatalities	57	50	50	34	31	25	25	23	23	22	21	22	23	28	33	34	39	(R) 40	42
Injured persons^E	N	N	N	882	876	681	600	561	587	557	522	476	472	551	625	677	701	(R) 755	808
Crashes^E	N	N	N	1,079	1,144	755	753	671	677	668	610	530	542	657	761	796	826	(R) 845	956

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

NOTE

The injury and crash data in this table are from NHTSA's General Estimates System (GES). The data from the GES, which began operation in 1988, are obtained from a nationally representative probability sample selected from all police-reported crashes. The GES sample includes only crashes where a police accident report was completed and the crash resulted in property damage, injury, or death. The resulting figures do not take into account crashes that were not reported to the police or that did not result in property damage.

SOURCES

Fatalities and injuries:

1975-2005: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, National Center for Statistics and Analysis, Traffic Safety Facts 2005, Final Edition, DOT HS 810 631 (Washington, DC), table 10, Internet site http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-30/NCSA/TSFAnn/TSF2005.pdf as of Feb. 2, 2007.

Vehicle-miles:

1975-2005: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, National Center for Statistics and Analysis, Traffic Safety Facts 2005, DOT HS 810 631 (Washington, DC), table 10, Internet site http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-30/NCSA/TSFAnn/TSF2005.pdf as of Feb. 2, 2007.

Crashes:

1975-2004: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, National Center for Statistics and Analysis, Fatality Analysis Reporting System Database and General Estimates System Database, personal communication, May 25, 2006.

2005: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, National Center for Statistics and Analysis, Traffic Safety Facts 2005, Final Edition, DOT HS 810 631 (Washington, DC), table 35, Internet site http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-30/NCSA/TSFAnn/TSF2005.pdf as of June 19, 2007.