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Table 2-16: Recreational Boating Accidents: 2000
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| Number of accidents |
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| Total |
68 |
7,740 |
| Fatal |
16 |
616 |
| Non-fatal injury |
13 |
3,292 |
| Property damage |
39 |
3,832 |
| Number of persons |
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| Killed |
18 |
701 |
| Injured |
18 |
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 non-fatal injury, followed
by property damage. For example, if two vessels are in an accident resulting in
a fatality and a non-fatal 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 www.uscgboating.org/Saf/pdf/Boating_Statistics_2000.pdf
as of Nov. 14, 2001.
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