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Table 2-21: Passenger Car Occupant Safety Data
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Fatalities |
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 |
R20,699 |
20,233 |
Injured personsE |
N |
N |
N |
2,376,439 |
2,234,594 |
2,231,703 |
2,264,809 |
2,363,595 |
2,469,358 |
2,458,080 |
2,340,612 |
2,201,375 |
2,137,503 |
2,051,609 |
1,926,625 |
CrashesE |
N |
N |
N |
5,560,592 |
5,178,450 |
5,042,203 |
5,040,116 |
5,401,164 |
5,593,685 |
5,598,699 |
5,423,286 |
5,146,124 |
4,915,734 |
4,926,243 |
4,831,727 |
Vehicle-miles (millions) |
1,030,376 |
1,107,056 |
1,248,981 |
1,427,178 |
1,411,655 |
1,436,035 |
1,445,106 |
1,459,208 |
1,478,352 |
1,499,139 |
1,528,399 |
1,555,901 |
1,566,808 |
1,582,113 |
U |
Rates per 100 million vehicle-miles |
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Fatalities |
2.5 |
2.5 |
1.9 |
1.7 |
1.6 |
1.5 |
1.5 |
1.5 |
1.5 |
1.5 |
1.5 |
1.4 |
1.3 |
1.3 |
U |
Injured personsE |
N |
N |
N |
R166 |
158 |
155 |
157 |
162 |
167 |
164 |
153 |
141 |
136 |
130 |
U |
CrashesE |
N |
N |
N |
390 |
367 |
351 |
349 |
370 |
378 |
373 |
355 |
331 |
314 |
311 |
U |
KEY: E = estimated; N = data do not exist; R = revised.
NOTES
The injury and crash data in this table are from the U.S. Department of Transportation
(USDOT), National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) General Estimates
System (GES). The data from 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) Historical 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.
USDOT, Bureau of Transportation Statistics rounded vehicle-miles to the nearest
billion.
Vehicle-miles in this table and in table 2-23 are taken from NHTSA revised
data and are not based exclusively on USDOT, Federal Highway Administration
(FHWA) data. The change was made to reflect the different vehicle classification
schemes used by FHWA. and NHTSA. Thus, vehicle-miles for passenger cars, and
light and large trucks in this table and table 2-23 should not be compared with
vehicle-miles in chapter 1, which are taken directly from FHWA.
SOURCES
Fatalities, injuries, vehicle miles, fatality and injury rates:
U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration,
National Center for Statistics and Analysis, Traffic Safety Facts 2001,
DOT HS 809 484 (Washington, DC: December 2002), table 7 and personal communication,
Sept. 10, 2002.
Crashes:
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, Sept.
10, 2002.
Crash rates:
Calculated by U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics
by dividing the number of crashes by the vehicle-miles traveled.
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