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Table 2-24: Bus Occupant Safety Dataa
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| Fatalities |
53 |
46 |
57 |
32 |
31 |
28 |
18 |
18 |
33 |
21 |
18 |
38 |
59 |
22 |
34 |
| Injured personsE |
N |
N |
N |
32,691 |
20,959 |
20,144 |
17,056 |
15,767 |
19,214 |
20,291 |
16,887 |
15,559 |
21,958 |
17,769 |
15,427 |
| CrashesE |
N |
N |
N |
60,412 |
56,285 |
49,705 |
51,353 |
55,818 |
58,847 |
57,185 |
53,376 |
53,385 |
62,591 |
55,594 |
54,264 |
| Vehicle-miles (millions) |
6,055 |
6,059 |
4,478 |
5,726 |
5,750 |
5,778 |
6,125 |
6,409 |
6,420 |
6,563 |
6,842 |
7,007 |
7,662 |
R7,590 |
6,986 |
| Rates per 100 million vehicle-milesb |
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| Fatalities |
0.9 |
0.8 |
1.3 |
0.6 |
0.5 |
0.5 |
0.3 |
0.3 |
0.5 |
0.3 |
0.3 |
0.5 |
0.8 |
0.3 |
0.5 |
| Injured personsE |
N |
N |
N |
571 |
365 |
349 |
278 |
246 |
299 |
309 |
247 |
222 |
287 |
234 |
221 |
| CrashesE |
N |
N |
N |
1,055 |
979 |
860 |
838 |
871 |
917 |
871 |
780 |
762 |
817 |
R732 |
777 |
KEY: E = estimated; N = data do not exist; R = revised.
a Bus includes school, transit, and intercity buses.
b The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) rounds its injury and crash data to the
nearest thousand, but injury and crash rates are calculated using the unrounded
data. NHTSA also calculates fatality, injury, and crash rates using vehicle-miles
expressed to a higher level of precision than shown here. Thus, injury and crash
rates shown in this table may differ slightly from the rates that would be calculated
from the data in this table. USDOT, Bureau of Transportation Statistics has
rounded vehicle-miles to the nearest 100 million in this table.
NOTE
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 in earlier editions.
SOURCES
Fatalities and injuries:
1975-2001: 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), tables 4, 51,
and personal communication, Sept. 10, 2002.
Crashes:
1990-2001: Ibid., General Estimates System Database, personal communication,
Sept 10, 2002.
Vehicle-miles:
1975-94: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration,
Highway Statistics Summary to 1995 (Washington, DC: July 1997), table
VM-201A.
1995-2001: Ibid., Highway Statistics (Washington, DC: Annual issues),
table VM-1.
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