Table 2-22,,,,,,,,,,
Motorcycle Rider Safety Data,,,,,,,,,,
,1990,1991,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998R,1999
Fatalities,"3,244","2,806","2,395","2,449","2,320","2,227","2,161","2,116","2,294","2,472"
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Injured persons,"84,000","80,000","65,000","59,000","57,000","57,000","55,000","53,000","49,000","50,000"
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Crashes,"103,000","106,000","72,000","72,000","67,000","63,000","66,000","61,000","55,000","57,000"
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Vehicle-miles (billions),9.6,9.2,9.6,9.9,10.2,9.8,9.9,10.1,10.3,10.6
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Rates per 100 million vehicle-milesa,,,,,,,,,,
  Fatalities,34,31,25,25,23,23,22,21,22,23
  Injured persons,882,876,681,600,561,587,562,534,476,472
  CrashesR,"1,078","1,155",753,727,654,643,675,604,524,538
"a  U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)  rounds its injury and ",,,,,,,,,,
"crash data to the nearest thousand before publishing them, but it calculates injury rates using ",,,,,,,,,
the unrounded data. NHTSA also calculates fatality and injury rates using vehicle-miles expressed to ,,,,,,,,,
"a higher level of precision than shown here.  USDOT, Bureau of Transportation ",,,,,,,,,
Statistics rounded vehicle-miles to the nearest 100 million in this table.  ,,,,,,,,,
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KEY:  R = revised; U = data are not available.,,,,,,,,,
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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. ,,,,,,,,,
The 1993 National Transportation Statistics (NTS) Compendium and earlier editions,,,,,,,,,
"illustrated crashes and injury figures estimated by the National Safety Council, which used a different set of ",,,,,,,,,
"methods to arrive at its figures. Thus, the injury and crash figures in this edition of NTS may not be comparable ",,,,,,,,,
with those found in the Compendium and earlier editions.,,,,,,,,,
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SOURCES:,,,,,,,,,
"Fatalities, injuries, and vehicle-miles:",,,,,,,,,
"U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, National Center for ",,,,,,,,,
"Statistics and Analysis, Traffic Safety Facts 1998, DOT HS 808 983 (Washington, DC: October, 1999), table 10,",,,,,,,,,
"and personal communication, Sept.11, 2000.",,,,,,,,,
Crashes:,,,,,,,,,
"Fatality Analysis Reporting System and General Estimates System, personal communications, ",,,,,,,,,
"Feb. 2, 1999, and Sept. 11, 2000.",,,,,,,,,