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Table 2-16: Recreational Boating Accidents: 2000
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Number
of accidents |
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Total |
175 |
7,740 |
Fatal |
15 |
616 |
Nonfatal injury |
86 |
3,292 |
Property damage |
74 |
3,832 |
Number of persons |
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Killed |
17 |
701 |
Injured |
127 |
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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