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Table 2-19: Occupant Fatalities by Vehicle Type and Nonoccupant Fatalities

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	1975	1980	1985	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	(R) 2002^e	2003
TOTAL traffic fatalities	44,525	51,091	43,825	44,599	41,508	39,250	40,150	40,716	41,817	^d42,065	42,013	41,501	41,717	41,945	42,196	43,005	42,643
Occupant fatalities (by vehicle type)	35,925	41,927	36,043	37,134	34,740	32,880	33,574	34,318	35,291	35,695	35,725	35,382	35,875	36,348	36,440	37,375	37,132
Passenger car, total	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	19,460
Subcompact^a	3,834	7,299	7,993	8,309	7,694	7,028	6,968	7,060	6,791	6,618	6,220	5,514	4,887	4,773	4,458	4,248	3,681
Compact	614	927	2,635	5,310	5,338	5,354	5,707	6,322	6,899	7,288	7,195	6,804	6,942	7,022	6,731	7,061	6,663
Intermediate	1,869	3,878	4,391	4,849	4,681	4,418	4,483	4,407	4,666	4,670	4,794	4,617	4,721	5,204	5,402	5,514	5,502
Full^b	10,800	11,580	6,586	4,635	4,040	3,796	3,675	3,560	3,413	3,417	3,481	3,106	2,887	3,184	3,208	3,262	3,191
Unknown	8,812	3,765	1,607	989	632	791	733	648	654	512	509	1,153	1,425	516	521	484	423
Truck^c, total	5,817	8,748	7,666	9,306	9,052	8,683	9,116	9,574	10,216	10,553	10,972	11,447	12,024	12,280	12,431	12,963	13,167
Light	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	12,444
Large	961	1,262	977	705	661	585	605	670	648	621	723	742	759	754	708	689	723
Other vehicles, total	4,179	5,730	5,165	3,736	3,303	2,810	2,892	2,747	2,652	2,637	2,554	2,741	2,989	3,369	3,689	3,843	4,505
Motorcycle	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	3,661
Bus	53	46	57	32	31	28	18	18	33	21	18	38	59	22	34	45	40
Other / unknown vehicle type	937	540	544	460	466	387	425	409	392	455	420	409	447	450	458	528	804
Nonoccupant fatalities, total	8,600	9,164	7,782	7,465	6,768	6,370	6,576	6,398	6,526	6,368	6,288	6,119	5,842	5,597	5,756	5,630	5,511
Pedestrian	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	4,749
Pedalcyclist	1,003	965	890	859	843	723	816	802	833	765	814	760	754	693	732	665	622
Other	81	129	84	124	124	98	111	107	109	154	153	131	149	141	123	114	140

KEY: U = data are not available; R = revised.

^a Includes minicompact cars (wheelbase under 95 inches) and subcompact cars (wheelbase between 95 and 99 inches).

^b Includes cars with a wheelbase of 110 inches or greater.

^cLarge trucks - trucks over 10,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating, including single-unit trucks and truck tractors. Light trucks - trucks of 10,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating or less, including pickups, vans, truck-based station wagons, and utility vehicles.

^d Includes two fatalities that could not be assigned to a category below.

^eThe National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) typically revises its most recent annual estimates the following year. The data here remain unrevised from the date of publication, but may be revised in the future.

SOURCES

1975-2002: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, National Center for Statistics and Analysis, Traffic Safety Facts 2002, DOT HS 809 620 (Washington, DC: 2004), table 4.

2003: Ibid., Traffic Safety Facts 2003: Overview, DOT HS 809 767 (Washington, DC: 2004), table 1, Internet site http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-30/NCSA/TSF2003/809767 as of Oct. 13, 2004 and personal communication Nov. 17, 2004.

Breakout of passenger car types:

U.S. Department of Transportation, National Center for Statistics and Analysis, personal communication, Nov. 17, 2004.